What’s on this 2024-25 season
St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
| J Haydn | Sonata in D Major, Hob.XVI:37 |
| Beethoven | Rondo a capriccio, Op. 129 'Rage Over a Lost Penny' |
| Brahms | Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118 |
| Schubert | Impromptus Op. 142 Nos. 2 and 4 |
| Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos. 12 and 13 |
£18; children and full-time students £9
Please note 2.30 pm start
Her musicianship seems to connect directly with one’s heart and her colours of sound, thoughtful interpretations and stupendous touch move and delight her audiences. As a BBC New Generation Artist, she made her debuts at the Cheltenham Music Festival, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Ulster Orchestra at the BBC Proms.
Watch Mariam's videos at https://www.mariam-piano.com/#media
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Maidment Auditorium, Shrewsbury School
| Britten | Three Divertimenti for String Quartet (1936) |
| Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 8, Op. 110 |
| Elizabeth Maconchy | String Quartet No. 13 'Quartetto Corto' |
| Brahms | String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51 No. 1 |
£18
Children and full-time students £9
Frequently heard on Radio 3, the Quartet has appeared many times at London’s Wigmore Hall and Kings Place, and at some of the UK’s foremost festivals and music societies. Abroad, the Quartet has played in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, the Czech Republic and Poland, and has twice toured Japan.
The Dante Quartet has made a series of acclaimed recordings for Hyperion, winning the BBC Music Magazine Award and the French Diapaison d’Or. The Quartet has also recorded for Signum and Toccata Records and their recording of the string quartets by Herbert Howells was released on the Naxos label in 2019. The Dante Quartet has recently recorded the eight string quartets and two quintets of C.V. Stanford on the SOMM label.
'The unflinching integrity of their interpretation and the excitement of their playing were consistently superb' The Guardian
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St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
Songs by Franz Schubert, Albert Fischer-Dieskau, Klaus Fischer-Dieskau, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Aribert Reimann, Christian Sinding, Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, Eduard Künneke, Hanns Eisler, Edvard Grieg, Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Carl Loewe, Franz Grothe, Clara Schuman, and Carl Maria von Weber.
£22
Children and full-time students £11
Benjamin Appl reminisces: At a public master class in Schwarzenberg, Austria, I was able to get to know my greatest idol and work with him for the first time. To this day, I consider this encounter and the resulting years of collaboration to be one of the greatest gifts of my professional life. For me he was more than “just” a teacher: he helped me considerably with technical and interpretive ideas, but also advised me in the art of performing on stage and crafting programs. He was a real mentor to me in so many ways. I feel fortunate that I was able to see him just before his death, in the spring of 2012 at his home on Lake Starnberg and that I can cherish that final memory.
In the last few months I was able to go through Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's private documents and, in his diary entries, letters and notes, gain an insight into the private person that Fischer-Dieskau was. This evening’s recital is dedicated to him, and is intended to explore the life of the great baritone and unveil the many facets of his personality. Alongside music, I share anecdotes, travel reports, excerpts from letters along with my personal insights and memories.
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