American DreamsBeethoven, Chopin, Gershwin
In his exciting new programme, Viv McLean is juxtaposing Gershwin’s Rhapsody to compositions by Beethoven and Chopin. As Gershwin’s music strikingly combines and assimilates different styles, the listener will be able to discover how thin the demarcation between...
French PicturesDebussy, Franck, Ravel
The French pianist Vincent Larderet chooses a magnificent French programme featuring Debussy’s first volume of the Preludes, the Prelude, choral et fugue by Franck and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. With this music all kinds of illusions can be magicked. Join the...
Clarinet JourneySchumann, Brahms, Rota, Poulenc
Two charismatic Italian performers introduce the audience to some of the best pieces of the repertoire for clarinet and piano, including Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Brahms, Nino Rota, and Poulenc’s Sonatas. Join us for an evening full of the clarinet’s...
Romantic SoaringSchumann, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin
Come and enjoy the passionate outbursts of a truly Romantic programme featuring five emblematic composers: Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, and Scriabin. A journey through the storytelling of Romantic souls dissimilar in their character, place, and time....
The Young Voice of the ViolinMozart, Brahms, Chausson, Wieniawski
17-year-old Austrian virtuoso violinist Elisso Gogibedaschwili joins forces with the Russian pianist Maria Meerovitch. They are going to enchant their audience with a programme featuring Mozart, Brahms, Chausson, and Wieniawski. Maria studied at the Royal...
A Schumann EveningSchumann, Prokofiev
Join five exceptional musicians for an evening at Schumann’s house (with excursions outside - Prokofiev’s sonata was written in France in 1932). This is chamber music tradition at its highest: music played at home among friends for the pleasure of...
Czech Idyllic PathsChopin, Janacek, Slavicky
Be prepared to immerse yourself in the idyllic, elegiac images of an Overgrown Path by Czech Janacek and subsequently awaken by the electrifying, energetic vibes of Slavicky. Last but not least, discover the subtle ramifications between Polish (Chopin) and Czech...
The Art of the PianoBenda, Dussek, Debussy, Bridge, Dvorak
Dennis and Chee, husband and wife and both amazing piano soloists, explore the inner and by no means obvious connections between Classical and Impressionism/early twentieth-century colourist styles (with French Debussy and his English counterpart Frank...
Music by a Free ThinkerVodenitcharov, Schumann, Debussy
Bulgarian pianist Boyan Vodenitcharov: “Considering that improvisation as an act of music-making has been unjustly abandoned by the field of classical music for more than a century...I decided recently to start trying to introduce it to the concert...
Motown and Magic
Antonio Forcione, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson
“I love his playing and he’s a great musician” (Charlie Haden, bass) “Possessing the skill, flair and stunning technique of Paco de Lucia and John McClaughlin, with the looks of a low rent middle-aged gigolo” (Omid Djalili) “I hope everyone hears and feels what I...
Brahms’s Inconsolable Longing
Brahms
Here is a programme featuring some of the best pages ever written for violin, horn, viola, and piano. The Romantic tones of Ofer Falk’s violin (and viola!) are supremely combined with the dark, warm timbre of Tanya Nisonen’s French horn and Ivo Varbanov’s...
Time In Time Out
Listening to Acoustic Version was certainly part of my early musical development and the very first contact with jazz in my teens. Jazz was not highly developed in Bulgaria as in other East European countries such as Poland, but already in the 1960s there...
Romantic Attitudes
Brahms, Field, Chopin, Rachmaninov
Don’t miss Fiacra’s outstanding Romantic programme: it beautifully opens up Clerkenwell International Music Series’s Autumn recitals. From Brahms’s wistful, lyrical variations op 21 no. 1 we travel through two inspired nocturnes by Field, then into...
The Poet Speaks
A Chopin Evening
The music of Chopin has been a constant of Ludmil Angelov’s performing career. During the 1987–88 season he performed the complete solo-piano works by Chopin in a cycle of twelve recitals, a unique event for which he received the prize of ‘Young Musician...