What’s on this 2024-25 season
Celebrity Song Recital with baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu
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 Schumann, and Carl Maria von Weber.
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.
DIRECTIONS
Coming up in 2024-25
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Sunday, 23rd February, 2025, 3.00 pmMaidment Auditorium, Shrewsbury School
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Friday, 7th March, 2025, 7.30 pmSt Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
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Sunday, 23rd March, 2025, 3.00 pmFestival Drayton Centre, Market Drayton
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Friday, 4th April, 2025, 7.30 pmSt Alkmund's Church
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Friday, 25th April 2025, 7.30 pmAshton Auditorium, Barnes Theatre, Shrewsbury School
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Friday, 9th May 2025, 7.30 pmBlackburn Theatre, Prestfelde School, Shrewsbury
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Friday, 6th June 2025, 7.30 pmSt Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
Previously in 2024-25
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Friday, 20th September, 2024, 7.30 pmSt Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury
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Thursday, 17th October, 2024, 1.00 pmUnitarian Church, Shrewsbury
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Thursday, 17th October, 2024, 7.00 pmSt Alkmund's Church, Whitchurch
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Sunday, 20th October, 2024, 3.00 pmMaidment Auditorium, Shrewsbury School
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Tuesday, 22nd October, 2024, 7.00 pmSt Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth
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Friday, 15th November, 2024, 7.30 pmSt Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
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Friday, 6th December, 2024, 7.00 pmSt Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
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Sunday, 19th January, 2025, 2.30 pmSt Chad's Church, Shrewsbury