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Viv McLean (piano) – Friday 28 April

28 April 2023 Tags: , ,

Preludes, Nocturnes and Rhapsody

 

Bach/Busoni   Chorale Prelude “Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ” BWV639
Chopin   Nocturne in E minor Op 72 No 1
Chopin   Nocturne in E flat Op 9 No 2
Gershwin   Three Preludes
Valentin Silvestrov   Nocturne
Rachmaninov   Prelude in G Op 32 No 5
Rachmaninov   Prelude in G sharp minor Op 32 No 12
Grieg   Notturno Op 54 No 4
Gershwin   Rhapsody in Blue

 

Unwind at the end of the first full day of the Festival with a glass of wine in this relaxed late-night concert.

Since winning First Prize at the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, Viv has enjoyed an extremely varied career as soloist and chamber musician, performing with most major British orchestras and many leading chamber groups. Viv last appeared in our Festival back in 2018, and one of his many admirers – Howard Skempton – proposed his return with a programme like this for us to round off a truly Festival day. We are pleased to include music by Valentin Silvestrov, who was born in Kyiv but currently lives in Berlin.

Generously supported by Howard Skempton

£16 unreserved
(includes a glass of wine)

Jack McNeill clarinet, David Le Page violin, Viv McLean piano

8 May 2018 Tags: , , ,

Bliss Pastoral
York Bowen Clarinet Sonata Op 109
Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op 82
Debussy Etude pour les arpèges composés
Debussy Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon
Stravinsky Suite from ‘The Soldier’s Tale’

Jack McNeill, a Leamington Music Prize winner in 2010 returns to the Festival with well known colleagues in a programme of music written during the Great War, with the exception of York Bowen, who was invalided out and wrote his Clarinet Sonata during World War Two. Stravinsky moved to Switzerland during the War and his dramatic Soldier’s Tale was premiered there in 1918, the year in which Debussy died and Elgar wrote one of his finest works.