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Mark Padmore has a rare ability as a singer to penetrate to the deepest meaning of both music and text and then convey his full understanding of each to his audience in unaffected yet totally compelling performances. In this workshop, he and Jocelyn share insights on interpretation and presentation with young professional singers.“Remarkable emotional subtlety…and revelatory story-telling.” The Scotsman on Mark PadmoreArtist info: markpadmore.com | jocelynfreeman.com
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Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op. 67Chekhov: Rothschild's Violin, from 'Novellas and Stories'Yakov Ivanov, an ill-tempered village coffin-maker and violinist, has always hated the local orchestra’s popular Jewish flautist, Rothschild. When Yakov becomes sick after his long-suffering wife dies, he experiences an epiphany that leads to an extraordinary act of generosity that astonishes everyone who knows him.Shostakovich began work on his klezmer/Jewish-inspired 2nd Piano Trio just 10 days after completing the orchestration of ‘Rothschild’s Violin’, an opera by his pupil Veniamin Fleishman who died at the Siege of Leningrad. For this performance, the movements and the story alternate.Artist info: mithrastrio.co.uk | gerdastevenson.co.uk
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Classic toe-tapping Bluegrass! Admiration for American roots music from the Appalachian mountains has inspired The Fountaineers to create their own unique blend of harmonies with buoyant musical improvisation.
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Germaine Tailleferre: Piano Trio (1916/17, rev. 1978)Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No.1 in F, Op.18Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 ‘Archduke’Saint-Saëns first Piano Trio, a charming and rustic piece that even displays a naïve spirit and irrepressible character, is said to have been inspired by a holiday in the Pyrenees that the 28-year-old composer took in 1863. Germaine Tailleferre, the only woman in the famous French group of composers known as ‘Les Six’, wrote this characterful Trio in 1916-17 but revised it over 60 years later with the addition of a spirited finale. Beethoven’s Archduke Trio is a noble and spacious work, widely celebrated for its broad dimensions and rich substance despite having to survive an inauspicious debut with the increasingly deaf composer “pounding on the piano keys till the strings jangled.”“Boasting strikingly truthful sound and balance…I look forward to hearing more from this talented young ensemble.” GramophoneArtist info: mithrastrio.co.uk
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Join Ionel, Leo and Dominic to hear the story of Ferdinand, a young calf with a big heart who would much rather sit under a tree and smell flowers than fight in a big arena. And expect to hear cats and dogs, and birds and insects, in magical music by Saint-Saëns, Grieg, Gershwin, Alan Ridout and others.Artist info: mithrastrio.co.uk
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Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D.395Debussy: Images IIChopin: 12 Études, Op. 25We are delighted to welcome pianist Alim Beisembayev, winner of the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition and recently announced a BBC New Generation Artist for 2023-25, for our festival finale. Schubert’s Impromptus have a lightness of touch suitable for pieces that have clearly been carefully conceived, but which are intended to convey an improvisatory spirit. Debussy wrote that “I love pictures almost as much as music” this set of three ‘Images’ allows us to visualise bells (possibly Javanese), the setting moon, and goldfish. Alim concludes with Chopin’s virtuosic 12 Études, of which the American pianist Garrick Ohlsson wrote, “If you can play these…there is basically nothing in the modern repertoire you can’t play.”“A performance of Greatness (with a capital ‘G’). I am not expecting to hear a finer and more moving performance for many years … unless he (Alim) plays them again.” Simon Holt, composer, on Chopin ‘Preludes’, Wigmore HallArtist info: alimbeisembayev.co.uk
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Mark Padmore has a rare ability as a singer to penetrate to the deepest meaning of both music and text and then convey his full understanding of each to his audience in unaffected yet totally compelling performances. In this workshop, he and Jocelyn share insights on interpretation and presentation with young professional singers.“Remarkable emotional subtlety…and revelatory story-telling.” The Scotsman on Mark PadmoreArtist info: markpadmore.com | jocelynfreeman.com
Paxton House
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Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op. 67Chekhov: Rothschild's Violin, from 'Novellas and Stories'Yakov Ivanov, an ill-tempered village coffin-maker and violinist, has always hated the local orchestra’s popular Jewish flautist, Rothschild. When Yakov becomes sick after his long-suffering wife dies, he experiences an epiphany that leads to an extraordinary act of generosity that astonishes everyone who knows him.Shostakovich began work on his klezmer/Jewish-inspired 2nd Piano Trio just 10 days after completing the orchestration of ‘Rothschild’s Violin’, an opera by his pupil Veniamin Fleishman who died at the Siege of Leningrad. For this performance, the movements and the story alternate.Artist info: mithrastrio.co.uk | gerdastevenson.co.uk
Paxton House
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Classic toe-tapping Bluegrass! Admiration for American roots music from the Appalachian mountains has inspired The Fountaineers to create their own unique blend of harmonies with buoyant musical improvisation.
Paxton House
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Germaine Tailleferre: Piano Trio (1916/17, rev. 1978)Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No.1 in F, Op.18Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 ‘Archduke’Saint-Saëns first Piano Trio, a charming and rustic piece that even displays a naïve spirit and irrepressible character, is said to have been inspired by a holiday in the Pyrenees that the 28-year-old composer took in 1863. Germaine Tailleferre, the only woman in the famous French group of composers known as ‘Les Six’, wrote this characterful Trio in 1916-17 but revised it over 60 years later with the addition of a spirited finale. Beethoven’s Archduke Trio is a noble and spacious work, widely celebrated for its broad dimensions and rich substance despite having to survive an inauspicious debut with the increasingly deaf composer “pounding on the piano keys till the strings jangled.”“Boasting strikingly truthful sound and balance…I look forward to hearing more from this talented young ensemble.” GramophoneArtist info: mithrastrio.co.uk
Paxton House
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Join Ionel, Leo and Dominic to hear the story of Ferdinand, a young calf with a big heart who would much rather sit under a tree and smell flowers than fight in a big arena. And expect to hear cats and dogs, and birds and insects, in magical music by Saint-Saëns, Grieg, Gershwin, Alan Ridout and others.Artist info: mithrastrio.co.uk
Paxton House
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Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D.395Debussy: Images IIChopin: 12 Études, Op. 25We are delighted to welcome pianist Alim Beisembayev, winner of the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition and recently announced a BBC New Generation Artist for 2023-25, for our festival finale. Schubert’s Impromptus have a lightness of touch suitable for pieces that have clearly been carefully conceived, but which are intended to convey an improvisatory spirit. Debussy wrote that “I love pictures almost as much as music” this set of three ‘Images’ allows us to visualise bells (possibly Javanese), the setting moon, and goldfish. Alim concludes with Chopin’s virtuosic 12 Études, of which the American pianist Garrick Ohlsson wrote, “If you can play these…there is basically nothing in the modern repertoire you can’t play.”“A performance of Greatness (with a capital ‘G’). I am not expecting to hear a finer and more moving performance for many years … unless he (Alim) plays them again.” Simon Holt, composer, on Chopin ‘Preludes’, Wigmore HallArtist info: alimbeisembayev.co.uk
Paxton House
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