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October 2017
Bach to Baby: Autumn Winds
Crunchy leaves, golden sunlight. Dig out your cosy jumpers, Autumn is here! Explore the magical colours of the woodwind family as we whirl through falling leaves and bask in the light of the harvest moon. Bach to Baby concerts are for parents and pre-schoolers alike: feeding, dancing and crying all welcome!
Find out more »CantiaQuorum Trio: Claude and co.
The CantiaQuorum Trio - Alex Caldon (trumpet), Alexandra Caldon (violin), Libby Burgess (piano) - present a gorgeous programme of ravishing French works.
Find out more »Bach to Baby: Autumn Winds
Crunchy leaves, golden sunlight. Dig out your cosy jumpers, Autumn is here! Explore the magical colours of the woodwind family as we whirl through falling leaves and bask in the light of the harvest moon. Bach to Baby concerts are for parents and pre-schoolers alike: feeding, dancing and crying all welcome!
Find out more »Bach to Baby: Autumn Winds
Crunchy leaves, golden sunlight. Dig out your cosy jumpers, Autumn is here! Explore the magical colours of the woodwind family as we whirl through falling leaves and bask in the light of the harvest moon. Bach to Baby concerts are for parents and pre-schoolers alike: feeding, dancing and crying all welcome!
Find out more »CantiaQuorum: Claude and co.
Trumpet Alex Caldon and pianist Libby Burgess from CantiaQuorum present a gorgeous programme of ravishing French works.
Find out more »Bach to Baby: Autumn Winds
Crunchy leaves, golden sunlight. Dig out your cosy jumpers, Autumn is here! Explore the magical colours of the woodwind family as we whirl through falling leaves and bask in the light of the harvest moon. Bach to Baby concerts are for parents and pre-schoolers alike: feeding, dancing and crying all welcome!
Find out more »The English Oboe Rediscovered
Oboist James Turnbull and pianist Libby Burgess present a lunchtime concert of English works from their recorded repertoire, including music by Vaughan Williams, Tippett and Howells.
Find out more »August 2017
Southwell Music Festival: French Chamber Classics
The remarkable conjunction of French compositional genius in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is celebrated in this programme. Debussy’s evocative Syrinx and a rare performance of Poulenc’s dramatic and entertaining Le bal masqué frame a programme of masterpieces – including Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite for four hands at one piano: the performance reunites the team of Burgess and Baillieu who brought us The Rite of Spring so memorably in 2015.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival talk: Mozart in 1780s Vienna
Libby gives a pre-concert talk on Mozart’s Mass in C minor, one of the great unfinished pieces. Given the pressures he was under at the time perhaps this is not surprising – a famous public figure in celebrity-conscious Vienna with pressing domestic demands and constant financial insecurity. The lecture will explore these and other fascinating aspects of Mozart’s life and how they shaped his music.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: The Art of the Trio
How many voices do you need for an interesting musical conversation? This programme shows how composers from the 19th to the 21st centuries have risen to the challenges of trio writing and in the process created some of their most memorable music – from the highly individual sonorities of Brahms to Shostakovich’s epic use of the familiar piano trio. The concert will also feature work by one of Britain’s most exciting young composers, Charlotte Bray.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: Late Night Baroque
Buxtehude, a contemporary of Bach, is one of the masters of the late Baroque; Membra Jesu Nostri patientis sanctissima (The most holy limbs of our suffering Jesus) is one of his most powerful works; the Minster late at night is the perfect setting for a rare performance.
Find out more »Southwell Music Festival: The Art of the Trio
How many voices do you need for an interesting musical conversation? This programme shows how composers from the 19th to the 21st centuries have risen to the challenges of trio writing and in the process created some of their most memorable music – from the highly individual sonorities of Brahms to Shostakovich’s epic use of the familiar piano trio. The concert will also feature work by one of Britain’s most exciting young composers, Charlotte Bray.
Find out more »Lake District Summer Music recital
Oboist James Turnbull and pianist Libby Burgess give a varied morning concert as part of Lake District Summer Music's 2017 international festival.
Find out more »July 2017
Iford Arts Jephtha
Opera at Iford is staged in-the-round and sung in English for an audience of ninety. Performances take place in the miniature Italianate cloister within The Harold Peto Gardens of Iford Manor six miles from Bath. This production of Handel's Jephtha is conducted by Christopher Bucknall and directed by Tim Nelson; Libby acts as chorusmaster and plays in the performances.
Find out more »Iford Arts Jephtha
Opera at Iford is staged in-the-round and sung in English for an audience of ninety. Performances take place in the miniature Italianate cloister within The Harold Peto Gardens of Iford Manor six miles from Bath. This production of Handel's Jephtha is conducted by Christopher Bucknall and directed by Tim Nelson; Libby acts as chorusmaster and plays in the performances.
Find out more »St Marylebone Festival: Brahms German Requiem
It was in 1871, at the home of a leading surgeon and his musical wife, that the first British performance of Brahms’s A German Requiem took place. The version performed was the composer’s own arrangement for piano duet, chorus and soloists. The choir of St Marylebone Parish Church recreate this original domestic performance with pianists Libby Burgess and Gavin Roberts, directing from the keyboard. In the manner of contemporary chamber performances, songs and piano music by Franz Schubert are included to complement the Requiem.
Find out more »Iford Arts Jephtha
Opera at Iford is staged in-the-round and sung in English for an audience of ninety. Performances take place in the miniature Italianate cloister within The Harold Peto Gardens of Iford Manor six miles from Bath. This production of Handel's Jephtha is conducted by Christopher Bucknall and directed by Tim Nelson; Libby acts as chorusmaster and plays in the performances.
Find out more »Iford Arts Jephtha
Opera at Iford is staged in-the-round and sung in English for an audience of ninety. Performances take place in the miniature Italianate cloister within The Harold Peto Gardens of Iford Manor six miles from Bath. This production of Handel's Jephtha is conducted by Christopher Bucknall and directed by Tim Nelson; Libby acts as chorusmaster and plays in the performances.
Find out more »Great Hampden Chamber Music
A varied evening of chamber music by Bach, Vivaldi, Piazzolla, de Falla and Shostakovich as part of the Great Hampden Chamber Music series, featuring trumpeters Alex Caldon and Alex Cromwell alongside the Hampden Quartet.
Find out more »A Carnival of Animals
Libby steps in to conduct this concert with the Petros Singers owing to the indisposition of the choir's regular conductor. An eclectic mix of creature-based choral works including Horovitz’ evergreen cantata Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo, the crazy Animal Crackers by Eric Whitacre, and Saint-Seans’ Carnival of the Animals arranged for piano duet, alongside madrigals and songs by the likes of Gibbons, Lassus, Stanford and others celebrating all things zoological.
Find out more »June 2017
In Tune broadcast
Jonathan Lemalu and Libby Burgess chat and perform live on Radio 3's drive-time programme 'In Tune'.
Find out more »Longing, Loss and Lament
This diverse recital featuring mezzo-soprano Susan Platts, horn player Neil Kimel and pianist Libby Burgess melds the colourful elements of the voice, French horn and piano into a rich tapestry of human emotions. Featuring music by Schubert, Britten, Cooke and Mahler.
Find out more »In Tune broadcast
Susan Platts, Neil Kimel and Libby Burgess appear live on Radio 3's 'In Tune' programme, discussing their forthcoming recital at St John's Smith Square and performing extracts from the programme.
Find out more »Finzi Friends recital
Marcus Farnsworth and Libby Burgess give a recital for the Finzi Friends. Programme to be announced.
Find out more »May 2017
Unrequited Lunch
Exciting ensemble CantiaQuorum presents a wonderful programme of Couperin, Ravel and Scarlatti, with soprano Katy Crompton.
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