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2024-01-29 10:42:00
Stanford, Holst and an RVW premiere: the 17th English Music Festival at Dorchester Abbey
[…] during the weekend include violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Peter Cartwright in Holst, Bliss, Howells, Farrar and Stanford's Violin Sonata, tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Richard Masters in Finzi, Ireland, USA-based English composer Frank E Tours (1877-1963) and Arthur Somervell's Maud, the Godwine Choir in a mixed programme including Howells, Havergal Brian and Holst's Hymns from the Rig Veda, plus concerts from the Flutes and Frets Duo, pianists Philip Leslie and Paul Guinery, Excalibur Voices, Shiry Rashkovsky (viola) and Richard Uttley (piano), and Ensemble Kopernicus.The weekend ends with a concert from the strings of the English Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Andrews, in a mixed programme the beings with Howells' Serenade and ends with Rawsthorne's Light Music for Strings and along the way fits in classics like Warlock's Capriol Suite and rarities like Bliss' Two Contrasts.Full details from the English Music Festival's website.
2023-10-18 06:59:00
Tips for musicians setting up a music festival: Shiry Rashkovsky, founder of Up Close and Musical, reflects on festival creation
Shiry Rashkovsky & violinist Fenella Humphreys at Up Close and Musical in 2022Viola-player Shiry Rashkovsky's Up Close and Musical festival returned to the Fidelio Café this month, opening with mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer, pianist Ben Dawson and Trio Klein in a storm-themed programme of music by living, and mainly women, composers [see my review] and ends tonight, 18 October 2023, with soprano & composer Héloïse Werner, multi-instrumentalist Shri Sriram and cellist Max Baillie in Best of October House Records with music by Love Ssega, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Jonathan Cole, and Max Baillie [further details]. Shiry founded Up Close and Musical in 2020 to help demystify the world of classical music, combining intimate performances, artist-curated programmes, and artist interviews, along with food and drink [read my 2021 interview with Shiry].In this article, Shiry reflects on the whole process of festival creation.I founded Up Close and Musical at Fidelio Café because I wanted to give audiences a chance not only to […]
2023-10-05 14:18:00
Up Close & Stormy: Lucy Schaufer launches Up Close & Musical 2023 at the Fidelio Cafe
Deborah Pritchard, Jocelyn Pook, Adrian Sutton, Georgia Stitt, Amanda McBroom, Stephen Barber; Lucy Schaufer, Trio Klein, Ben Dawson; Up Close and Musical at Fidelio CafeReviewed 4 October 2023Five works for voice and instruments, and one string trio, all contemporary and all completely fascinating in this terrific programme to launch this year's Up Close and MusicalShiry Rashkovsky's festival, Up Close and Musical has returned to the Fidelio Cafe for another season of exploring music and musicians. The opening concert featured Lucy Schaufer (described on her website as performer, producer and purveyor of fine jam), pianist Ben Dawson and Trio Klein (Kamila Bydlowska - violin, Shiry Rashkovsky - viola, Ella Rundle - cello) in music inspired by storms (meteorological and emotional) by Deborah Pritchard, Jocelyn Pook, Adrian Sutton, Georgia Stitt, Amanda McBroom and Stephen Barber. It was a complex evening, six works, each of which had a slightly different in the line-up, and in the middle a Q&A with the […]
2022-07-08 09:08:48
Conway Hall's Autumn season of Sunday concerts returns on 2 October 2022 with eleven concerts and two pre-concert talks
Greenwich Piano Trio (Photo Peter Searle)Conway Hall's Autumn season of Sunday concerts returns on 2 October 2022 with eleven concerts and two pre-concert talks (one by yours truly), with repertoire that stretches from the 18th century to the present day. The season opens with the Primrose Piano Quartet in two masterpieces of the genre, Mozart's Piano Quartet in E♭ K.493 and Faure's Piano Quartet in C minor Op.15 plus music by Jean Francaix and Saint-Saens. This is followed on 9 October by the Minerva Piano Trio celebrating the release of their new album on SOMM, in a programme which pairs Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite, in an arrangement by the group's cellist Richard Birchall, with one of Birchall's own piece. They programme also features two classics of the repertoire, Haydn's Gypsy Rondo Trio and Beethoven's Ghost Trio, plus music by Caroline Shaw.This year is RVW's 150th birthday, so in Seeking Utopia violist Shiry Rashkovsky, pianist Viv McLean and author/narrator […]
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