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2021-10-20 10:42:34
Highgate International Chamber Music Festival: Suk, Coleridge-Taylor, Messiaen, Kahn, Weinberg, Mendelssohn-Hensel and more
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is returning for a weekend of live performances in St Anne's Church, Highgate West Hill, from 3 to 6 December 2021. Performers for the weekend include Alina Ibragimova, Julian Bliss, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Nicholas Daniel, Robert Cohen, Alec Frank-Gemmill, and Wu Qian plus festival directors Ashok Klouda, Natalie Klouda and Irina Botan. Works in the programme include Josef Suk's Elegie for piano trio in D flat major, Coleridge-Taylor’s Quintet in F-sharp minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op.10, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, Eleanor Alberga's Remember, a programme of neglected music by composers of Jewish birth with works by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Robert Kahn. Born into a German-Jewish family of bankers, Robert Kahn studied with Joseph Rheinberger and became friends with Johannes Brahms, whose music was a big influence on Kahn. He was forced to flee Germany in the 1939, when he was 73, and he settled in […]
2019-11-27 09:54:35
Vivid and passionate: chamber music in Highgate
Ernst von Dohnányi Beethoven, Britten, Ludwig, Dohnanyi; Highgate International Chamber Music Festival; St Michael's Church Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 26 November 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Two highly contrasting mid-20th century works in a vividly passionate programmeThe Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is in its 8th year. Founded in 2012 by artistic directors Natalie Klouda, Irina Botan and Ashok Klouda, this year the festival is presenting 14 concerts over a week from 23 to 30 November, often with an early evening and late night concert in addition to main concert. And whilst the concerts do feature well-known artists (the opening event featured cellist Sheku Kanneh Mason, and the closing one includes oboist Nicholas Daniel), the emphasis is on a pool of artists, including the joint artistic directors themselves, who play at many of the events thus enabling concerts to be interestingly varied. And providing regular concert […]
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