

Newsletter - May & June 2010

Camerata Ireland - Barry Douglas, direction & piano

The Irish pianist Barry Dougas continues his journey through the Mozart piano concertos with Camerata Ireland, the chamber orchestra he founded in 1999, in their fourth concert at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées on the 8th June with concertos No18 in B flat Major K.456, No19 in F Major K.459 and Concerto No20 in D minor K.466.

Nathan Braude

The brilliant young Belgian viola player performs Bartók's concerto for viola with the Limburgs Symfonie Orkest conducted by Etienne Siebens in Tongeren, Belgium, as part of the Flanders Festival on the 5th June. The same programme is revived for two further concerts in Heerlen and Maastricht on the 18th and 19th June.

Ferenc Vizi

Ferenc Vizi gives a recital at the Domaine de Burtin in Nouan Le Fuzelier organised by the Association Art’ Pass on Sunday 9th May including extracts from Liszt's "Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses", the Hungarian Rhapsodies N°2 and N°9 as well as Chopin Walses and third Ballade in A flat major.

Don't miss the Matin des Musiciens on France Musique on the 24th May. Ferenc Vizi has recorded Schumann's Opus 17 Fantasy in Radio France's studios specially for the programme which is available online until the 24th June.

Finally on the 20th June Ferenc Vizi gives a Chopin recital in the Nohant Bergerie as part of the Festival de Nohant.

Kenneth Weiss

Kenneth Weiss joins up with the Montreal based Ensemble Caprice with whom he performs Bach's F minor harpsichoid concerto on the 28th May in their ‘BACH AND THE BOHEMIAN GYPSIES’ programme at the Library of Congress in Washington.

On the 19th and 20th June Kenneth Weiss gives two recitals of works from the celebrated Fitzwilliam Virginal Book in the Midsummer Festival of the Centre culturel de l’Entente Cordiale at the Château d’Hardelot near Boulogne sur Mer. The recitals will be recorded for a live CD, the first album of this fascinating repertoire by this exceptional musician.

Kenneth Weiss ends his month of June on the 29th with a performance of the Goldberg Variations in the charming Chapelle St Charles in Soissons.

Paul O'Dette

Francesco da Milano, Albert de Rippe and Marco dall'Aquila were the three legendary 16th-century lutenists who were compared to Orpheus, and whose playing was said to have similar powers to transport the souls of the listener from one emotional state to another at will.

Paul O’Dette brings these three composers together in a superb recital programme under the title ‘The Three Orfeos ’ which he will perform at the Festival de la Maguelone near Montpellier on the 6th June.

Fretwork

On the 20th June Fretwork gives the French première of Orlando Gough's 'The World Encompassed' that traces Sir Francis Drake's 1577- 80 voyage. The concert is in the Midsummer Festival of the Centre culturel de l’Entente Cordiale at the Château d’Hardelot near Boulogne sur Mer. Music from the 16th Century prior to Drake’s departure is woven seamlessly into this through-composed piece of music lasting 70 minutes.

Prior to this Fretwork performs their 6 viol arrangement of the Goldberg Variations on the 3rd June at the Salisbury Festival. They then take up residencey at King's Place in London for 4 concerts from the 16th to 19th June - with Dame Emma Kirkby on the 16th June, Michael Chance on the 17th June, Clare Wilkinson on the 18th June and the world première of Orlando Gough's 'The World Encompassed' on the 19th June.

Fretwork then goes to Spain to perform Bach's Art of the Fugue (their best selling Harmonia Mundi CD) in Girona on the 29th June.

Dominique Visse

Dominique Visse performs his unique recital programme with François Couturier, piano, and Jean-Louis Matinier, accordeon, at the Castle in Milotice as part of the Concentus Moraviae Festival in the Czech Republic on the 30th May - works by Machaut, Strozzi, Merula, Dowland, Purcell, Ravel, Poulenc, Berio, Takemitsu and Berio as well as improvisations by François Couturier and Jean-Louis Matinier.

Elena Rozanova

On the 12th June Elena Rozanova performs Schumann's 'Kreisleriana' and Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' at the Salle Adyar in Paris in the Saison Rive gauche chamber music series - a good occasion to hear this great performer.

She accompanies Svetlin Roussev on the 26th June in a recital of works by Vladiguerov, Rachmaninov, Hrisstosskov and Prokofiev in the Église de Poncey at Givry in the Saône-et-Loire département - Festival Les Musicaves.

London Haydn Quartet

The Florestan Trio Festival in Peasmarsh in Sussex has invited the London Haydn Quartet on the 11th and 12th June when they play a Boccherini string quintet, the anonymous 1832 arrangement of Beethoven's ‘Kreutzer’ sonata for string quartet, Beethoven's Opus 127 quartet, and one of the Haydn Opus 20 quartets that they have recently recorded Hyperion, as well as Schönberg's ‘Verklärte Nacht’.

The King's Consort
direction Robert King

On the 11th June The King's Consort opens the Midsummer Festival of the Centre culturel de l’Entente Cordiale at the Château d’Hardelot near Boulogne sur Mer with a joyous programme of Handel, Bach and Purcell with the exquisit soprano Lorna Anderson and the legendary Baroque trumpetist Crispian Steele-Perkins.