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Czech composer
- harpsichord, piano
- classical music
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- composer, music teacher, pianist, harpsichordist
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2024-04-09 08:14:00
Gŵyl Machynlleth Festival
The mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth plays host to artists from classical, Welsh and world music each August for the Machynlleth Festival / Gŵyl Machynlleth which, this year, runs from 18 to 25 August 2024 under artistic directors Julius Drake and Dennis Jones, with concerts taking place in The Tabernacle, a former chapel that is now an intimate and acoustically wonderful concert venue.Welsh artists performing at this year's festival include Clwyd-born pianist Llyr Williams in an all-Chopin recital, Welsh male voice choir Cantorion Gogledd Cymru and the closing concert will feature soprano Natalya Romaniw and harpist Alis Huws. The Three Soloists concert features tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas, soprano Meinir Wyn Roberts and baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen with pianist Eirian Owen.Other highlights include Schubert’s Trout Quintet with Tom Poster and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Poulenc’s opera La Voix Humaine with soprano Mercedes Gancedo and Festival Co-Artistic Director, Julius Drake, Marmen Quartet and John Myerscough in Haydn, Ravel and Schubert’s quintet, genre-defying […]
2023-11-15 05:00:00
Stepan: Music for Fortepiano (Robert Hill)
Antonin Stepan/Joseph Anton Steffan (1726-1797) Sonata No. 2 in G majorSonata No. 5 in A major Five CapricciosRobert Hill, FortepianoMusikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm MDG 620 0870-2 (1999)[Flac & Scans]
2022-12-10 05:00:00
Steffan: Concertos for Harpsichord (Edita Keglerová, Hipocondria Ensemble)
Joseph Anton Steffan (1726-1797)Harpsichord Concerto No. 2 in D Major, S. 121bHarpsichord Concerto in C major, S. 101Harpsichord Concerto in G Major, S. 109Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D Major, S. 116Edita Keglerová, Hipocondria Ensemble(Period Instruments)ArcoDiva UP 0211-2131 (2019) [Flac & Scans]
2022-07-29 08:55:00
2117 / Hedd Wyn: Stephen McNeff & Gruff Rhys' Welsh-language music theatre piece for WNO to be released on Tŷ Cerdd Records
[…] takes place in 2117, 200 years after Hedd Wyn's death. A nuclear disaster at the Trawsfynydd power station has displaced communities. An intense dose of radiation has blurred the distinction between past, present and future, and the Welsh language faces extinction. The drama instils a dystopian future with Welsh mythology and Hedd Wyn’s own verse.Hedd Wyn (Ellis Evans) in 1910Stephen McNeff conducts the WNO Orchestra, with members of members of WNO Youth Opera and Only Boys Aloud, plus Steffan Lloyd Owen (baritone), Meinir Wyn Roberts (soprano), Paul Carey Jones (bass baritone), Llio Evans (soprano), Alys Mererid Roberts (soprano), Craig Yates (baritone), Laurence Kilsby (tenor) and William Rennie (tenor).The recording is released on 5 August 2022, and it will be launched with an event on the #Encore stage at the National Eisteddfod on Friday 5 August at 3pm, where Gruff Rhys will be interviewed by Sioned Webb, and soprano Ellen Williams, baritone Dafydd Allen and […]
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