A new Konstellation programme had its first outing yesterday – Let Us Garlands Bring: music for baritone, oboe and piano by Britten and Finzi was very well received as part of the lunchtime concert series Music on the Green in Esher. A glorious sunny day, the only background noise that drifted in through the open church doors was birdsong!
Glad to hear that extracts from The English Oboe: Rediscovered, recorded with oboist James Turnbull, were played on BBC Radio 3 this afternoon!
Oxford University has released a new film promoting their organ scholarships, featuring interview with current and former organ scholars who have gone onto a range of musical careers – including me! See here to watch the short film.
A new video feature about Silent Opera's performances of Orfeo has been released, here. The 'pre-recorded' music was directed by Christopher Bucknall, featuring a superb line-up of baroque players including the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. I was roving keyboard player, playing everything from second harpsichord to regale!
Mini Devon tour this week with the Berkeley Ensemble Clarinet Trio, featuring concerts in the Honiton Festival and in Chulmleigh both on the same day! Programmes feature Brahms, Beethoven, Bruch and even Gershwin.
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant Op 48
(i) Allegro con fuoco
Live performance at Munster Square Music Live
St Mary Magdalene Square, London | 9th May 2013
with John Slack (clarinet)
A diverse few days of playing coming up: Weber's Grand Duo Concertante and music by Poulenc and Bliss in London with clarinettist John Slack tomorrow (Munster Square Music Live); an eclectic programme from Handel to Eva Cassidy with countertenor Jeremy Kenyon in Dartmouth on Saturday (Dart Music Festival); and then a reprise of the Konstellation programme Magic of the woods, shimmers of the sea: music by Elgar for violin, voice and piano in Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Promenade Concerts).
Rubbra: Sonata in C for Oboe and Piano, Op. 100
(i) Con moto
From the 2013 disc ‘The English Oboe: Rediscovered’
Champs Hill Records | April 2013
with James Turnbull (oboe)
Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong
(ii) Andante sostenuto (‘Spurn Point’)
From the 2013 disc ‘The English Oboe: Rediscovered’
Champs Hill Records | April 2013
with James Turnbull (cor anglais)
Back from a triumphant first Berkeley Ensemble Chamber Course in Somerset. A beautiful long weekend was spent coaching a talented and lovely bunch of players on various aspects of chamber music playing…. plus the small matter of giving three concerts in 48 hours just to keep us tutors on our toes. A very successful weekend and plans are already underway for next year!