What's On - Spring 2014 - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
What's On - Spring 2014 - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
What's On - Spring 2014 - Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
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Lunchtime Guests<br />
Tickets 029 2039 1391<br />
www.rwcmd.ac.uk<br />
21<br />
Fri 7 February 1.15pm<br />
Guy Johnston cello<br />
Alasdair Beatson piano<br />
There’s a special energy<br />
behind everything Guy<br />
Johnston plays – this former<br />
BBC Young <strong>Music</strong>ian might<br />
have matured into one <strong>of</strong><br />
the UK’s most poetic and<br />
insightful cello soloists, but<br />
he’s lost none if his youthful<br />
verve. So what better<br />
showcase for him than<br />
this exuberant lunchtime<br />
concert? You’ll never hear<br />
Beethoven and Strauss on<br />
more swashbuckling form<br />
than in these buccaneering<br />
early cello sonatas.<br />
Tickets £6 in advance<br />
£8 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Fri 14 February 1.15pm<br />
Andrea Lieberknecht<br />
flute<br />
Dag Jensen bassoon<br />
Catherine Milledge piano<br />
Put the two most contrasting<br />
wind instruments together –<br />
and they turn out to be<br />
perfect partners. Well, what<br />
did you expect when the<br />
performers are two <strong>of</strong><br />
World’s most admired<br />
instrumentalists? From<br />
romantic France to the<br />
tropical lushness <strong>of</strong> Brazil<br />
this is a concert <strong>of</strong> sunshine,<br />
shadows, and delicious humour.<br />
Liebknecht and Jensen serve<br />
it up with panache.<br />
Tickets £6 in advance<br />
£8 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Tues 11 March 1.15pm<br />
Daniel Philips violin<br />
with Lesley Hatfield violin<br />
Alice Neary cello<br />
Who needs a piano? Three<br />
strings are all it takes to<br />
create a world – especially<br />
when they’re played by<br />
Daniel Phillips, founder<br />
member <strong>of</strong> the Orion String<br />
Quartet, and one <strong>of</strong> North<br />
America’s most respected<br />
violinists and teachers. Two<br />
colleagues join him today on<br />
three extraordinary journeys,<br />
from the otherworldly beauty<br />
<strong>of</strong> Ravel’s elegant Duo to the<br />
woodsmoke and paprika <strong>of</strong><br />
Bartók’s zingy miniatures.<br />
Tickets £6 in advance<br />
£8 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Daniel Phillips is the RWCMD Jane<br />
Hodge International Chair in Violin.<br />
Fri 14 March 1.15pm<br />
David Pyatt french horn<br />
Chris Williams piano<br />
When composers write for<br />
the horn, they seem to unlock<br />
a special magic – few<br />
instruments can be both so<br />
tender, and so swashbucklingly<br />
brilliant. And David Pyatt - a<br />
former principal horn <strong>of</strong> the<br />
London Symphony Orchestra<br />
– is master <strong>of</strong> its every mood.<br />
So enjoy music <strong>of</strong> humour,<br />
ebullience, quiet beauty and<br />
pure romance in this lovely<br />
programme from one <strong>of</strong> the UK’s<br />
finest instrumentalists.<br />
Tickets £6 in advance<br />
£8 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
*Transaction fees may apply<br />
Tues 18 March 1.15pm<br />
The Fitzwilliam Quartet<br />
First and last things: the<br />
Fitzwilliam Quartet studied<br />
Shostakovich’s late quartets<br />
with the composer himself<br />
– and no-one who’s serious<br />
about 20th century art<br />
should miss the chance to<br />
hear their interpretation <strong>of</strong><br />
his devastating 13th Quartet.<br />
The very first quartet by the<br />
teenage Mozart and Delius’s<br />
haunting, neglected Late<br />
Swallows put it into thoughtprovoking<br />
context.<br />
Tickets £6 in advance<br />
£8 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Fri 28 March 1.15pm<br />
Benjamin Frith<br />
& Peter Hill piano duo<br />
The Rite <strong>of</strong> <strong>Spring</strong><br />
Imagine Stravinsky’s<br />
revolutionary ballet: now<br />
imagine it pared down,<br />
concentrated, and unleashed<br />
on an unsuspecting audience<br />
by two <strong>of</strong> the most powerful<br />
pianists on the contemporary<br />
music scene. Hearing The<br />
Rite <strong>of</strong> <strong>Spring</strong> performed in<br />
the composer’s piano version<br />
is an overwhelming<br />
experience; with Debussy’s<br />
equally inventive Jeux to<br />
round things <strong>of</strong>f, this should<br />
be a lunchtime to leave your<br />
ears ringing!<br />
Tickets £6 in advance<br />
£8 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Tues 1 April 1.15pm<br />
Adrian Thompson tenor<br />
Michael Pollock piano<br />
Habe Dank<br />
As part <strong>of</strong> the celebrations <strong>of</strong><br />
Richard Strauss 150th<br />
anniversary, a recital which<br />
recreates some <strong>of</strong> the songs<br />
which Strauss himself<br />
performed with the great<br />
Viennese tenor, Anton<br />
Dermota.<br />
Tickets £6 in advance<br />
£8 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Fri 4 April 1.15pm<br />
Christopher Maltman<br />
baritone<br />
Simon Lepper piano<br />
Twilight <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Romantics: the songs<br />
<strong>of</strong> Joseph Marx<br />
Joseph Marx might just be<br />
the finest 20th century<br />
composer you’ve never heard<br />
<strong>of</strong> – but singers in the know<br />
treasure his beautiful, deeply<br />
romantic songs. In this<br />
magical recital, the<br />
incomparable Christopher<br />
Maltman rediscovers a whole<br />
world <strong>of</strong> intimate feeling and<br />
quiet rapture, placing Marx’s<br />
songs alongside miniature<br />
masterpieces by Korngold,<br />
Mahler and Strauss. You’ll<br />
never hear them sung better.<br />
Tickets £6 in advance<br />
£8 on the day*<br />
Dora Stoutzker Hall<br />
Also see page 13 for<br />
Lunchtime performances<br />
by Ensembles from the<br />
Mariinsky Orchestra<br />
Guy Johnston<br />
Andrea Lieberknecht<br />
Daniel Phillips<br />
The Fitzwilliam Quartet
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