

Newsletter - March & April 2010

The King's Consort
direction Robert King

The King's Consort and Choir of The King's Consort under the baton of Robert King will tour Bach's magnificent St Matthew Passion in the days before Easter 2010 to world-class venues across Europe. Soloists for this large-scale project include soprano Julia Doyle, alto Diana Moore, tenors Jan Kobow, James Gilchrist and Joshua Ellicott and basses David Wilson-Johnson and Ben Davies. The tour opens in Switzerland in Lucerne's stunning KKL Hall for the Lucerne Easter Festival (March 25), travels to Madrid's magnificent Auditorio Nacional (March 28) and then moves on to the world-famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (March 31), and concludes as a highlight of the famous Easter celebrations in Cuenca, Spain, on Maundy Thursday (April 1).

Europa Galante
direction & violin Fabio Biondi

The excellent Europa Galante directed by Fabio Biondi from the violin will play on the 4th March in the Cathédrale du Havre before their French tour that takes them on 11th March to the Scène Nationale de Bonlieu in Annecy, 12th March to the Arsenal de Metz, 14th March to the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, 16th March at the Coursive de La Rochelle and the 19th March in the Auditorium de Bourges. They perform works by Telemann, Guido, Vivaldi and Haydn.
Europa Galante goes on to join up with the extraordinary mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux at the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès in Strasbourg on the 20th March, followed by their annual rendez-vous in Krakow for the Misteria Paschalia Festival on the 5th April with the spectacular vocal recital of their recent EMI recording Pyrotechnics.

Fabio Biondi

Fabio Biondi returnsd to conduct the Orchestre National de Montpellier on the 2nd April at the Montpellier Corum, 9th April at the Théâtre de Sète, 10th April at the l’Espace Cathare in Quilan and the 11th April at the Palais des Rois de Majorque in Perpignan. Programme: Mozart's violin concerto n°7 and Overture to La Clemenza di Tito Haydn's symphony n°49 'La Passione', Boccherini's symphony in C major G 491 and Nardini's symphony in D major B 537.

Kenneth Weiss

A busy spring for Kenneth Weiss. He conducts the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris with soloists and choir from the vocal departments of the Paris Conservatory in staged performances of Mozart's Mariage of Figaro staged by Emmanuelle Cordoliani on 8, 10, 12, 14 and 15 March at the Cité de la musique in the opera hall of the Paris Conservatory.
He is then straight off to American to play two recitals with the violinist Monica Huggett in Portland (Oregon) on the 19th March and at the Carnegie Hall in New York on the 23rd March.
Kenneth Weiss has been invited by the Santiago de Compostela Festival to direct Couperin's Leçons de Ténèbres on the 3rd April with the young French sopranos Camille Poul and Hasnaa Bennani with the gamba player Julien Léonard.
He return to France to conduct the Ensemble Orchestral de Basse Normandie in a programme of Muffat, J. S. Bach, Boccherini and Haydn, with performances on the 8 April at the Abbaye aux Dames in Caen and 9th April in St James, near the Mont St Michel.
Kenneth finishes the month of April with a solo recital in Liège on the 25th with a very 'solar' programme including Soler's Fandango and sonatas by Rodriguez, Scarlatti & Galuppi as part of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège season.

Ensemble Clément Janequin

« Fay ce que vouldras », is the title of the Ensemble Clément Janequin's programme with the Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse on the 21st March at the Odyssud theatre in Blagnac where they perform the Rabelaisian programme they have recently recorded to be released at the end of 2010 on the Flora label.

Oo the 25 & 26 March the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is organising a conference under the title of 'Clément Janequin, un musicien au milieu des poètes' bringing together historians, musicologists and French literature specialists. For this unique occasion, the Ensemble Clément Janequin has prepared a new programme entirely dedicated to Clément Janequin under the title 'Escoutez tous gentilz Galloys' which they perform on the 25th March in the Grand Auditorium of the BNF. The Janequin party continues at the Nouveau Théâtre in Châtellerault, Janequin's birthplace, with of course the same programme which we are so impatient to hear!.

Dominique Visse

Dominique Visse persues his aquatic, mediterranean and amazonian adventure with Mauricio Kagel's Mare Nostrum at the Péniche Opéra in Paris with the Ensemble 2E2M, the singer Vincent Bouchot, staged by Mireille Larroche, from the 8th to the 30th March 2010.

Nathan Braude

Nathan Braude takes part in the Festival Aspect des Musiques d’Aujourd’hui at the Caen Conservatoir on the 20th March with the violonist Guillaume Cubéro and the tuba playerPatrick Tréol, as well as the participation of Bernard Rétif's computer music department and the composition class of the Caen Conservatory. He will perform Pierre Charvet's 'And Death' for viola and computer system.

Nathan Braude and Ferenc Vizi will perform at the Théâtre de Verdun on the 8th April with the clarinetist Michel Lethiec. Programme: Schumann's three Fantasiestücke for piano and clarinet op. 73, Märchenbilder for viola and piano op. 113, and Märchenerzälhlungen for clarinet, viola and piano op. 132, Mozart's 'Trio Les Quilles' K. 498, and four extracts from Bruch's Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano, op. 83.

Elena Rozanova
Trio Roussev Salque Rozanova

Elena Rozanova has the privilege of taking ion the role of artistic director of the Festival Classicaval in Val d’Isère. She has invited Nicolas Dautricourt, violin, Hélène Clément, viola, Emmanuel Rossfelder, guitar and Sébastian van Kuijk, cello to get together from the 9 to the 11 March for three exceptional musical soirées. Their programme includes Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition, duoes for violin and piano by Rachmaninov, Prokoviev and Katchaturian, Schumann's piano quartet Op 47 and Mendelssohn D minor Trio.

The Roussev Salque Rozanova Trio is joined by the cellist Amaury Coetaux and violist Lise Berthaud for a concert on the 11th April in the church of St Germain de Dourdan with a programme of piano quintets by Brahms and Dvorak, among the most beautiful works in the chamber music repertoire.

The English Concert
direction Harry Bicket

The English Concert gives two concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London which are not to be missed: 1st April with the soprano Rosemary Joshua and the mezzo Sarah Connolly under the direction of Harry Bicket with a recital of Handel Airs and Duos, followed by a second concert directed by Alfredo Bernardini on the 22nd April under the title of ‘Bach and his borrowings ’.

Fretwork

The viol consort Fretwork are Leon in Spain on the 26th March for a Bach programme and on the 30th March in Santiago de Compostela with a Purcell programme with the mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson.

London Haydn Quartet

Our talented period instrument quartet performs Haydn's quartets Opus 20 N° 6 and N° 2 and Opus 77 N° 2 at the Carnegie Hall in New York on the 19th March and at the Harkness Chapel in Cleveland, Ohio on the 21st March.