Watch our previous concerts by clicking below
You can watch a recording of the 2nd concert from our
Beethoven 250th Anniversary Festival
by clicking on the link below
https://youtu.be/B3m4aAEFlJU
3rd Lockdown – Online Series 2021
Saturday 27th March, 6.30pm GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxca6VM1RHs
A Harp Concert by Noelia Cotuna
Concert premiered on 11th April, 6.30pm GMT
Deste Piano Trio
Concert premiered on 13th March, 6.30pm GMT
Click on the link below to watch the concert….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRnp8AJYWu4
Little Venice Ensemble
Guitar, Violin and Cello Trio
Concert premiered on 27th February, 2021
Online concert premiered on 13th February, 2021
Online Concert premiered on 30th January, 2021
Beethoven 250th Anniversary Festival
https://youtu.be/B3m4aAEFlJU
2nd Lockdown – Online Series
Click on this link to watch our concert streamed on the 28th of November
https://youtu.be/VC5vMRR4TDg
Featuring Violin Duo
Nadine Galea and Reggie Clews
Click on the link below to watch a Baroque Concert streamed on 21st November
Featuring
Mercè Bruguera (mezzosoprano), Maxim Del Mar (violin) and Callum Anderson (harpsichord)
Click on the link below to watch a Flute and Piano duo concert premiered on Saturday 14th November
Featuring
Katie Sazanova (flute) and Guy Murgatroyd (piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0DKhOi-HEg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR32MwSz34LihCc71q3gFsx7yFVLZKcrbeNdIimn08l4GpFj8Bd3QzWp_Uw
Click on the link below to watch this concert from Satruday 7th November 6.30pm onwards
https://youtu.be/qQvYwxASupY
Featuring
João Paulo Ferreira counter-tenor accompanied by João Santos ; solo pianist Victor Asuncion who is a Steinway artist; Giorgio Serci and Pedro Velasco (guitarists- fado duo)
13th Concert of our Online Series
Saturday,11th July, 6.30pm
Featuring
Michael Temporal Darell (Baritone) and Francesca Lauri (piano) in a vocal and piano recital
From Bach to Bernstein
Programme
Mache dich mein Herze rein – JS Bach from St. Matthew Passion BWV 244
Liederkreis op. 24 – Schumann
Oh what a beautiful morning – R Rodgers
Lonely Town – Bernstein
Prelude and Fugue in C# minor – JS Bach (piano solo)
Nocturne in C minor op 48 No. 1 – Chopin (piano solo)
12th concert of our Online Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXP6oovuPYY
Featuring
Irina Lyakhovskaya (pianist)
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven : Sonata No. 2 in G major, op. 49
Kreisler – Rachmaninov : Liebeslied
Johannes Brahms : Sonata No. 3 in F minor, op. 5
11th Online Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE-goAjyqSk
Featuring
The Violin and Cello Duo
Arda Karakaya and Helena Švigelj
Programme
Antonin Dvorak: Humoresque
Émile Goué: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 3
I Animé
II Très lent
III Très vif
Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango
Bordello 1900
Cafe 1930
Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thais
George Frideric Handel/Johan Halvorsen: Passacaglia for Violin and Cello
10th Online Concert
https://youtu.be/vRgzMloRb24
Featuring
19 International Pianists performing
Peter Seabourne’s ‘Libro di Canti Italiano’ which is the fourth of his piano series – ‘Steps’
List of pianists in order of performance and piece they will be performing
Fabio Menchetti – Canto della vita
Sarah Vella – Domande
Alessandro Viale – Viaggio di notte
Giulia Grassi – Piccolo canto d’amore tremante
Isabella Gori – Piccolo canto delle gocce di pioggia
Francesca Fierro -Canto i miei sogni
Emanuele Stracchi – Passi sbagliati – canzone bacchica
Paoli Rinaldi – Canto della ragazza da Toulouse
Chantal Balestri – Canto delle farfalle
Laetitia Amodio – Carillon triste
Francesca Lauri – Canto d’ammunitamento
Barbara Panzarella – Notturno
Simone Rugani – Canto burbero
Daphne Delicata – Canto lontano
Julian Chan – Anche gli uccelli
Andrea Emmanuele – Canto oscuro
Alvaro Siculiana – Canto delle foglie cadenti
Giordano de Nisi – Canzonetta in stile antico
Ettore Strangio – Canto giocoso
“Libro di Canti Italiano” is the fourth in Peter Seabourne’s “Steps” piano series, a cycle of 19 piano pieces lasting some 50 minutes. The collection explores aspects of the Italian temperament – passion, spontaneity, extroversion, even a little subversiveness and mutiny – in a series of “songs without words”. Some of these explore these themes directly, whilst others have sub-plots and subsidiary connections. The work opens and closes with “songs” of joy and vitality but in between we find a kaleidoscope of colours, moods and atmospheres – everything from falling leaves to an insistent little bird; from dreams to drunkenness; from raindrops to a sad carillon. These often call for virtuosity, but also tenderness and poetry. Throughout there is great rhythmic inventiveness and strong characterisation, but unlike much contemporary writing this music always remains approachable and immediate.
British composer Peter Seabourne is 60 in a few months time. He suffered a 13 year silence in mid-career and disowned all his earlier work upon resuming in 2001. The piano has become central to his output. He is now often performed worldwide, with several international prizes, many CDs, broadcasts and reviews. His music is accessible, but with integrity, and his language is instantly identifiable. He follows his own stylistic path.
“A composer of immense emotional clout” [Classical Reviewer]
“Ambitious, questing and pointedly European in outlook, the music of Peter Seabourne avoids easy answers. Clearly Seabourne is a composer with whom to reckon, his music combining a demonstrably Romantic rhetoric with an always audible and yet never facile approach to tonality.” [Musical Opinion]
9th Online Concert
https://youtu.be/1czAhMMulSs
Featuring Violin Duo
Anja Jamsek and Ben Richardson
Programme
C. de Beriot: Duo Concertante no. 3, op. 57
J.S. Bach : Double Violin Concerto in d minor,
BWV 1043 – 2nd movement
Philip Telemann: Sonata in G Major (from Three Duets)
Watch our 8th Online Concert
https://youtu.be/g4ZlnGqjWt0
Featuring
Briona Mannion (violin)
and
William Fielding (piano)
Programme
J.S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue (TBC) (piano solo)
C. Debussy – Sonata for violin and piano. L. 148 (140)
Allegro Vivo
Intermède. Fantastique et léger
Finale. Très animé
S. Prokofiev – Five Melodies, Op. 35
J. Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 1
7th Online Concert
https://youtu.be/1DrURb0buDM
Featuring
Richard Allen (harp)
and
Maxim Del Mar (violin)
Harp Programme
Hamilton Harty – Prelude No.1 from Spring Fancies
Claude Debussy – Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque
Marcel Grandjany – Rhapsodie
Violin Programme
Heinrich Biber (1644-1704)
Mystery Sonatas (aka Rosary Sonatas)
No. 1 in D Minor – The Annunciation
No.14. in D major – The Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Violin and Harp Programme
JS Bach – Siciliana from Sonata in Eb BWV 1031
Edward Elgar – Salut d’amour Op.12
6th Online Concert
https://youtu.be/9BplyINMnlc
Featuring
Desireé Quintano (cello) and Stefan Calleja (violin)
Accompanied by Stephanie Quintano (piano)
Programme
Nicolo Paganini – Duo Concertante No. 1 for Violin and Cello
Rachmaninoff/Kresiler – Preghiera (from Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.2 – Second Movement)
Popper – Hungarian Rhapsody Op. 68
DeFalla/Kreisler – Danse Espagnole
Shostakovich – 5 Pieces for 2 Violins (arr. for Violin and Cello)
5th Online Concert
https://youtu.be/x2AZCYZlx5c
Featuring guitarist
Alexander Hart
Programme
JS Bach (1685-1750)
BWV 1005
Adagio, Largo, Allegro Assai
Miguel Llobet (1878-1938)
Theme and Variations
William Walton (1902-1983)
Bagatelles 1-5
Click on the link below to watch our 4th Online Concert which was streamed on
Saturday 18th April at 6.30pm
Duo Ardoré
Rebecca Raimondi (violin)
and
Alessandro Viale (piano)
Programme 18 April 2020
Ferdinand Ries
Grande sonate pour le piano forté avec violon obligé Op. 83 in D major
(Allegro con brio, Andantino con moto, Rondo. Allegro Vivace) [1808]
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonate pour le piano forte avec un violon Op. 24 in F major
(Allegro, Adagio molto espressivo, Scherzo. Allegro molto, Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo) [1800]
The instruments that will be used during this performance are an 1814 John Broadwood & Sons square piano and an 18th Century Johann Gottfried Hamm violin on loan from the HfMdK (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main).
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watch
https://youtu.be/6rhil5Gl84g
Peter Fenech (viola) and Francesca Lauri Menta (piano)
Programme
2 Movements from Cello Suite No. 4 JS Bach viola solo
Nocturne op;. 48 No. 1 in C minor Chopin piano solo
Capriccio ‘Hommage a Paganini’ Vieuxtemps viola solo
La Maja y el ruisenor Granados piano solo
Oblivion Piazzolla viola and piano
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2nd Online Concert
https://youtu.be/Nk_4vMN1dmM
Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli (double bass)
Alvaro Siculiana (piano)
Programme
Preludio di Traviata G. Verdi
Questo Amor, Vergogna mia – from opera Edgar G.Puccini
Ständchen F. Schubert
Intermezzo – from Opera Goyescas E. Granados
Blessed Relief F. Zappa
Absolutely Free F. Zappa
Elegia in Re G. Bottesini
Contrabajeando A. Piazzolla
Watch Our 1st Online Concert streamed on 28 March
Featuring
Two Cellists Urska Horvat and Thibault Blanchard Dubois
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