BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Cobbe Collection - ECPv6.18.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Cobbe Collection REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210603T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210603T200000 DTSTAMP:20241129T145356Z CREATED:20210530T115132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T145356Z UID:10000065-1622746800-1622750400@www.cobbecollection.co.uk SUMMARY:Online Concert: Nathaniel Mander DESCRIPTION:Will be screened online – https://youtu.be/ungqyDOekpQ \nNathaniel Mander – Grand piano by circle of Johann Andreas Stein\, South Germany or Vienna\, last decade of the 18th century \nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) \nSonata in C major\, K 309\nVariations on “Ah vous dirai-je Maman”\, K 265\nSonata in A major\, K 331 \nNathaniel Mander is a British harpsichordist and fortepianist whose performances have taken him throughout Europe and the UK\, and to the United States and South America. \nHe began his education with Richard Lester before moving to London to study with Carole Cerasi at the Royal Academy of Music where he graduated with first class honours. \nIn 2010 Nathaniel won first prize at the Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition at Fenton House. The following year he returned and won first prize at the 10th Broadwood Harpsichord Competition\, later winning 2nd place at the Gianni Gambi Harpsichord competition in Pesaro (Italy)\, the Accompanist’s Prize for the John Kerr Award at Finchcocks and the Harold Samuel Bach Solo Keyboard Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2014 Nathaniel held the Linda Hill Junior Fellowship in Harpsichord at the Royal College of Music for two consecutive years. \nNathaniel is much in demand for solo\, chamber and orchestral appearances throughout Europe and in the United States. He has performed for radio and television and at major halls\, including Wigmore Hall\, King’s Place\, the Purcell Room\, St. Martin-in-the-Fields\, St. John’s\, Smith Square and the Royal Festival Hall. \nNathaniel’s debut CD\, The 18th century French salon\, was highly praised by the critics at its release in 2015\, and he has recorded a series of music videos in collaboration with award winning film director David Percy. \nHe has recently recorded Bach’s Goldberg Variations which will be released later this year on ICSM Records. \nWe are very grateful to those who have given donations that make these events possible.\nThis concert was sponsored by Elston Portfolio Management\nTo allow us to commission artists and put together more online concerts\, do please consider leaving a donation. URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/online-concert-nathaniel-mander/ CATEGORIES:Online Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Nat_0018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210422T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210422T200000 DTSTAMP:20241129T145358Z CREATED:20210409T125506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T145358Z UID:10000066-1619118000-1619121600@www.cobbecollection.co.uk SUMMARY:Online Concert: Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow DESCRIPTION:Will be screened online – https://youtu.be/dyA4CVyoLww \nAlexander Karpeyev – Grand Piano by Jakob Becker\, c.1879\, St. Petersburg \nJourney from St Petersburg to Moscow \n70 years of Russian piano miniature \nAnton Rubinstein (1829-1894) \nMélodie\, Op. 3\, No.2 (1852) \nIvan Laskovsky (1799-1855)\nPenseé figutive\, Op. 28 (1830s)\nImpromptu in F Minor (1830s) \nFrédéric Liszt (1811-1886)\nLe Rossignol (Air russe de A. Alyabyev) from ‘Deux Mélodies russes’ (1853) \nPyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)\nNocturne\, Op. 19\, No.4 (1873)\nScherzo humoristique\, Op. 19\, No.2 (1873)\nThème original et variations\, Op. 19\, No.6 (1873) \nGeorgy Catoire (1861-1926)\nRêverie\, Op. 6\, No.1 (1897)\nPrélude\, Op. 6\, No.2 (1897) \nNikolay Medtner (1880-1951)\nMärchen (Tale)\, Op. 14\, No.2\, ‘March of Paladin’ (1905-07) \nPyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)\nCoronation March\, arr. Tchaikovsky (1883) \nWith introduction by Alec Cobbe. \nAlexander Karpeyev is a Russian pianist\, who is resident in the UK and has performed throughout the UK and Europe and has also toured in the USA\, Canada and Russia. ‘Sasha’ trained at the Moscow Conservatory and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 2014 he completed a performance practice doctoral degree at the City University\, based on the Edna Iles Medtner Collection at the British Library. \n‘Sasha’ is passionate about communicating his ideas on Romantic 19th and early 20th century piano repertoire\, and in particular exploring the works of virtuoso pianist-composers. A Medtner specialist\, he became deeply immersed in Medtner’s music and approach to music-making while working on his doctoral degree\, and his contact with unique performing practice informs his own playing. In 2019 he gave the Algerian première of Chopin’s F minor Concerto with the Algerian National Opera Orchestra under Maestro Amine Kouider. \nHe devotes considerable time to promoting Russian music in London as the Music Curator of the ‘Pushkin House Music Salon’ in Bloomsbury\, where he appears both as a soloist and collaborator with guest artists. He also has a mission to devise and direct music festivals that combine performance and scholarship. \n‘Sasha’s latest project is a CD of Medtner Songs\, Opp. 36-7\, 45-6\, recorded with the Russian soprano Sofia Fomina\, offering the first complete version of Opp. 36 and 46\, with Russian texts by Pushkin\, Tyutchev and Fet\, and German texts by Goethe\, Eichendorff and Chamisso; it was released by Chandos Records in 2021. \nKarpeyev remains deeply grateful for the support of the Stiftung Lyra (Zürich)\, Guildhall School Trust\, Martin Musical Scholarship Fund\, Hattori Foundation\, Leverhulme Trust\, Craxton Memorial Trust\, English Speaking Union\, Fidelio Charitable Trust\, Solti Foundation\, Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust\, Jaques Samuel Pianos\, his family\, friends and numerous anonymous donors. \nWe are very grateful to those who have given donations that make these events possible.\nThis concert was sponsored by Elston Portfolio Management\nTo allow us to commission artists and put together more online concerts\, do please consider leaving a donation. URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/online-concert-journey-from-st-petersburg-to-moscow/ CATEGORIES:Online Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/akarpeyev7-credit.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210304T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210304T200000 DTSTAMP:20241129T145359Z CREATED:20200312T182028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T145359Z UID:10000067-1614884400-1614888000@www.cobbecollection.co.uk SUMMARY:Online Concert: Anneke Scott and Geoffrey Govier DESCRIPTION:Anneke Scott – horn \nGeoffrey Govier – George IV’s Grand Piano by Nannette Streicher\, Vienna\, 1823 \nWill be screened online – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCobbeCollection/ \nBeethoven Sonata in F\, Op. 17\nRies Grande Sonate\, Op. 34\n
Steup Sonata in E flat\, Op. 11 
 \nAnneke Scott and Geoffrey Govier highlight works written by musicians in Beethoven’s circle in the early 19th century and likely to have been inspired by his famous Sonata Op.17.  \nAnneke Scott is a leading exponent of historical horn playing\, with a repertoire of music and instruments from late 17th century to the present day. She is principal horn of period instrument ensembles including Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the English Baroque Soloists. \nGeoffrey Govier is one of the leading British exponents of the early piano. He is Professor of Fortepiano at RCM and has served on the jury of a number of international fortepiano competitions. URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/anneke-scott-and-geoffrey-govier/ CATEGORIES:Online Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/govier_scott_thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210204T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210204T200000 DTSTAMP:20241129T145533Z CREATED:20200312T181625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T145533Z UID:10000068-1612465200-1612468800@www.cobbecollection.co.uk SUMMARY:Online Concert: Duo Hesperi DESCRIPTION:Mary-Jannet Leith – recorders \nThomas Allery – harpsichord \nWill be screened online on 4th of February at 7pm – https://youtu.be/73nqupNykxI \nThere Goes London’s Musical Coalman \nGottfried Finger\nOp. 3\, Sonata No. 1 in F major\nAdagio – Vivace – Presto \nJohann Christoph Pepusch\n“Prelude” from The Division Flute \nGeorg Friedrich Händel\nChaconne in F Major HWV 485 \nGiuseppe Sammartini \nSonata in D minor\nAllegro ma non tanto – Andante – Allegro \nFrancesco Geminiani\nA Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick\nAuld Bob Maurice – Sleepy Body \nWilliam Babell\nOp. 3\, Concerto in D major (transposed to C Major)\nAllegro – Adagio – Allegro \nPhilip Hart\nLesson in C minor\nAlmand \nJohn Banister\n“A Division on a Ground” from The Division Flute \nJames Paisible\nRecorder Sonata in G minor from The Detroit Manuscript\nGrave – Largo – Adagio – Presto \nDuo Hesperi paint a picture of London’s vibrant musical scene in the early 1700s\, through the lens of the extraordinary musical small-coal merchant Thomas Britton. For several decades until his death in 1714\, Britton ran musical evenings\, which he hosted in his small coal-loft in Clerkenwell\, attracting the best performers of the day\, including Handel himself on the chamber organ! Britton’s successful business enabled him to purchase an impressive book collection\, which featured a huge number of musical manuscripts. The programme features music by several of the musicians who performed in Britton’s concert series\, as well as some of the more unusual music featured in the catalogue of music listed by the historian John Hawkins at his death. Most of these composers were leading musicians in late 17th century London: Johann Pepusch\, William Babell\, John Banister\, Gottfried Finger and James Paisible were all celebrated court and theatre musicians\, organists\, and teachers. At this time\, musicians were pouring into London from Europe to enjoy the rich opportunities for work and private patronage: many hailed from France or Germany\, and later Italy – so Britton’s coal-loft would have been home to a cornucopia of musical styles and cultures \nDuo Hesperi is a young\, innovative\, Early Music duo based in London. It is dedicated to showcasing the infinite colours and possibilities of their instruments\, presenting programmes through the lens of colourful characters from the musical past. They have a particular interest in promoting unpublished and previously undiscovered Scottish Baroque repertoire\, and in exploring the fascinating links between Scotland\, London\, and the continent through Baroque music during the eighteenth century. \nThomas and Mary-Jannet formed Ensemble Hesperi (‘Evening Stars’) as a duo ensemble while studying on the Masters programme at the Royal College of Music\, where they performed regularly as part of the Historical Performance Department. In this format\, Ensemble Hesperi won the Audience Prize at the Fenton House Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition in 2012\, and the Century Fund Prize at the RCM Early Music Competition in 2013. \nMore recently\, they have appeared in the London Handel Festival\, the inaugural St Marylebone Festival and the ‘Future Baroque’ series at the London Festival of Baroque Music 2017. Mary-Jannet and Thomas were delighted to have been selected for the Brighton Early Music Festival Live scheme for 2016-2017\, and also to have been chosen to perform twice on the continent during 2017\, at the Brugge and Utrecht Early Music Fringe Festivals. Their performance of their Scottish Baroque duo programme\, ‘The Pheasant’s Eye’\, won the Audience Prize from over 70 performances from European young ensembles. Mary-Jannet and Thomas were also delighted to be selected as Live Music Now musicians in November 2018. URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/ensemble-hesperi/ CATEGORIES:Online Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Ensemble-Hesperi-5-High-Res_JPG.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210121T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210121T200000 DTSTAMP:20241129T145536Z CREATED:20200312T182200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T145536Z UID:10000069-1611255600-1611259200@www.cobbecollection.co.uk SUMMARY:Online Concert: Rachel Podger and Christopher Glynn DESCRIPTION:Rachel Podger – violinChristopher Glynn – piano \nWill be screened online – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCobbeCollection/ \nMozart Sonata in C major\, K 303\nMozart\, arr. Prof Timothy Jones C minor Fantasia Fr 1782l\, completion 1\nCPE Bach Sonata in D major\, Wq 71\nBeethoven Six German Dances\, WoO 42\nBeethoven Violin Sonata No 1 in D major Op 12 no 1 \nRachel Podger and Christopher Glynn join forces for the first time in recordings and performances of the Beethoven sonatas. \nRachel was the first woman to be awarded the RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in 2015 and Gramophone Artist of the Year 2018. She is Ambassador for REMA’s Early Music Day 2020 and has honorary positions at both the RAM and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Rachel is founder and Artistic Director of Brecon Baroque Festival. \nChristopher is Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival. He is a Grammy award-winning pianist and accompanist\, working with leading singers\, instrumentalists and ensembles in concerts worldwide. URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/rachel-podger-and-christopher-glynn/ CATEGORIES:Online Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Rachel-Podger-and-Christopher-Glynn-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201210T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201210T200000 DTSTAMP:20241129T145540Z CREATED:20200312T181047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T145540Z UID:10000070-1607626800-1607630400@www.cobbecollection.co.uk SUMMARY:Online Concert: Fiachra Garvey DESCRIPTION:Fiachra Garvey – piano \nWill be screened online – https://youtu.be/SgNEwsyNaiQ \nBeethoven Sonata in A\, Op. 101\, No.28\nChopin Polonaise in F#minor\, Op. 44 “Tragic”\nChopin Polonaise in Ab Major\, Op. 53 “Heroic”\nGershwin Rhapsody in Blue (solo piano version by Gershwin) \nTHE INSTRUMENT\nFiachra is performing on the grand piano by Steinway\, New York\, c. 1864\n(Adopted for 2020 by The Meakin Family)\nWe are also very grateful to those who have given donations that make these events possible.\nTo allow us to commission artists and put together more online concerts\, do please consider leaving a donation. \nThe piano played by Fiachra Garvey in this recital is the very early Steinway concert grand piano. In 1853\, Steinway had opened their first factory in New York. By 1859 they patented a model of grand piano that combined a cast iron frame such as had been employed by Chickering of Chicago\, with the innovation of ‘overstringing’\, in which\, for the first time in a grand\, the bass strings cross over the tenor region. This makes it possible for the tenor strings to be closer to their optimum lengths while the bass strings have a more favourable position on the soundboard\, resulting in a powerfully enhanced sonority. The new overstrung Steinway model won a first rank medal at the London Exhibition of 1862. \nTHE PERFORMER\nFiachra Garvey grew up on a farm in the Wicklow Mountains. He was 1st prize-winner of the 2012 Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition and former NCH Rising Star. He graduated from the Royal College of Music\, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and received prizes at many international competitions including Dublin AXA\, EU Prague and at Collioure\, France. \nConcerto appearances include the Janáček Philharmonic\, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra\, RTÉ Concert Orchestra\, Cambridge Symphony Orchestra\, UCD Symphony Orchestra\, RIAM Symphony Orchestra and the Hibernian Orchestra. Fiachra has worked with eminent conductors John Wilson\, Theodore Kuchar\, Stephen Bell\, Mihhail Gerts and Duncan Ward. He has also recorded and broadcast for BBC and RTÉ television and radio and released two solo albums. \nFiachra has appeared at Wigmore Hall\, Fazioli Hall\, National Concert Hall\, Dublin\, St Magnus Festival\, Orkney\, West Cork Festival\, Brighton Festival as well as Spoleto Festival\, GOOGLE\, Geneva Festival\, Wexford Opera\, Philia Hall\, Japan and Zhejiang Concert Hall\, China. \nHe is Founder and Artistic Director of the West Wicklow Festival and in 2019 was appointed Artistic Director of Classical Vauxhall and a board member of the Dublin International Piano Competition. \nBased between London and the farm in Ireland\, Fiachra returns home to help with the yearly lambing\, dipping\, shearing\, harvesting and all the other elegant and refined activities on the farm! Fiachra feels this makes him a more inspired and fulfilled musician. \n“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness\, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.” P.G. Wodehouse URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/fiachra-garvey/ CATEGORIES:Online Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fiachra-image_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201126T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201126T200000 DTSTAMP:20241129T145542Z CREATED:20200312T181837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T145542Z UID:10000071-1606417200-1606420800@www.cobbecollection.co.uk SUMMARY:Online Concert: Milena Simovic and Vitaly Pisarenko DESCRIPTION:Milena Simovic – viola \nVitaly Pisarenko – piano \nWill be screened online – https://youtu.be/BSbPofY-DwQ \nSchubert ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata in A minor\, D821\nBrahms Sonata in F minor\, Op. 120\, No.1\nEnescu Concertstück \nSerbian Milena Simovic is equally at home as a violinist or violist. She studied violin with professor Maja Jokanovic and Krzysztof Smietana\, and received her Bachelor and Masters of Music degrees from the Belgrade University of Arts and Music\, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. After this Milena continued her further studies with viola and has completed another Masters degree at the Zurich University of Arts under Lawrence Power. \nMilena enjoys an international career of concerto\, recital and chamber music performances in Europe\, Asia and America. The 2019/2020 season took her to the Trans-Siberian Art Festival for a series of concerts and she appeared as a soloist in the 2019/2020 season in Italy\, United Kingdom\, Norway\, France\, Portugal and through the countries of former Yugoslavia\, performing alongside some of the most established artists of today’s music scene. Milena is resident viola and a chamber music coach at the annual Culture Festival in Santulussurgiu\, Sardinia. \nIn 2017 Milena acted as a principal viola of the City of Birmingham Symphony orchestra\, and has been a recording artist of Nigel Kennedy 2015-2017. In May 2018 she premiered Berlioz’s ‘Harold’ in Belgrade with Serbian Radio Symphony Orchestra\, which was broadcast live across the country. She premiered Fariouz’s concerto for viola\, tenor and chamber choir in Northern Ireland in April 2019\, based on the verses of Seamus Heaney’s ‘Anything Can Happen’. It was recorded for Signum Records and is due to be released in 2020. \nMilena plays a Giovanni Battista Rogeri violin ca.1680 and a Paolo Antonio Testore viola from 1740.\n Russian pianist Vitaly Pisarenko had his first public recital at the age of 6. He won First Prize at the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht in 2008 and commenced a packed tour schedule of worldwide engagements the morning after the finals with an appearance at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Damian Iorio. In 2015 he won third Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition. \nVitaly started his training at music schools in Kiev\, then studied at the Central Music School in Moscow with Professor Yuri Slesarev (1999-2005) and State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (2005-2010\, and postgraduate 2010-2013). From 2005-2009 he studied a postacademic course at Rotterdam’s Codarts Conservatory\, as a pupil of Aquiles Delle Vigne\, and from 2009-2012 Vitaly was a student of Oxana Yablonskaya at her Piano Institute in Italy. \nIn 2014 Vitaly completed his Master’s degree with distinction at the RCM\, where he studied with Professor Dmitri Alexeev\, and an Artist Diploma degree in 2015. He is currently a Doctoral course student as an Emma Rose Memorial Scholar and a Bob Wigley and Helmut Schuster Scholar. He also took lessons with Professor Boris Petrushansky at the Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola\, Italy. \nVitaly has performed in more than 25 countries including appearances throughout Europe and in South America\, Asia\, Israel\, Turkey\, Russia\, South Africa\, Mexico and the United States. He has performed recitals in Wigmore Hall\, St. James Piccadilly\, Queen Elisabeth Hall\, Cadogan Hall with the London Mozart Players\, St Martin in the Fields\, Parliament Chambers and for the Chopin Society\, and appeared in the BMS York\, Champs Hill\, Erin Arts Centre (Isle of Man)\, Manchester (with the soloists of Manchester Camerata) and Hatchlands. \nFrom 2012 Vitaly has been generously supported by the Keyboard Charitable Trust. URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/milena-simovic-and-vitaly-pisarenko/ CATEGORIES:Online Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Milena-Simovic-and-Vitaly-Pisarenko-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T200000 DTSTAMP:20241129T145546Z CREATED:20201110T164354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T145546Z UID:10000072-1605207600-1605211200@www.cobbecollection.co.uk SUMMARY:Online Concert: Ashley Solomon and Steven Devine DESCRIPTION:Screened online – https://youtu.be/bxeQAyGR1hU \nWe are grateful to those who have so generously given donations that made this event possible.\nTo allow us to commission artists and put together more online concerts\, do please consider leaving a donation \nAshley Solomon – flute\nSteven Devine – piano \nLudwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)\nSonata in F minor\, Op. 2\, No. 1 (1795)\nAllegro\nAdagio\nMenuetto and Trio\nPrestissimo \nSonata in B flat major\, Anh.4\nAllegro\nPolacca\nLargo\nThema mit Variationen (Allegretto) \nSonata “Quasi una fantasia”\, Op. 27\, No. 2 (‘Moonlight’)\nAdagio Sostenuto\nAllegretto\nPresto agitato \nAshley Solomon combines a successful career across both theory and practice. He is Head of Historical Performance at the Royal College of Music\, having been appointed a professor in 1994. In 2014 he was awarded a Personal Chair and in July 2017 elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM)\, conferred on him by HRH Duchess of Gloucester. In 2019 Ashley was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Music (FRCM)\, conferred on him by HRH Prince of Wales. Both Fellowships are in recognition of outstanding services to music. Since 2014 Ashley has been working closely with the Royal Collection Trust to curate musical performances in their Royal venues\, including Buckingham Palace (Queen’s Gallery\, Ballroom) at Windsor Castle and in the Queen’s Chapel. \nAshley is the director of Florilegium\, and much of his time is spent working and performing with this ensemble that he co-founded in 1991. Since 2001 he has been its director. They have a busy touring schedule and perform at major international festivals and concert series throughout Europe as well as the Americas. Florilegium have been recording with Channel Classics since 1993 and have to date made 35 recordings\, many of which have garnered international awards. They have given over 1\,250 performances over the years\, 80 of these have been at Wigmore Hall. \nAs a soloist\, Ashley has performed worldwide\, including concertos in the Sydney Opera House\, Esplanade (Singapore)\, Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires)\, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)\, Konzerthaus (Vienna)\, Beethoven-Haus (Bonn)\, Handel-Haus (Halle) and Frick Collection (New York). He also records as a solo artist with Channel Classics and his recording of the complete Bach’s Flute Sonatas was voted the best overall version of these works on either modern or period flute by Gramophone Magazine (February 2017): \nSteven Devine is a music director and keyboard player working with some of the finest musicians. He is the Principal Keyboard Player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the principal keyboard player for The Gonzaga Band\, Classical Opera (The Mozartists) and performs regularly with many other groups around Europe. Steven has recorded over thirty discs with other artists and ensembles and made six solo recordings. His recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations (Chandos Records) has received critical acclaim – including Gramophone magazine describing it as “among the best”. The complete harpsichord works of Rameau (Resonus) has received five-star reviews from BBC Music Magazine and Steven’s latest recording of Bach’s Italian Concerto has been voted Classic FM’s ‘Connoisseur’s choice’. Steven has recently released Book 1 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with Book 2 just released. \nSteven made his London conducting debut in 2002 at the Royal Albert Hall and is now a regular performer there – including making his Proms directing debut in August 2007 with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has conducted the Mozart Festival Orchestra in every major concert hall in the UK and also across Switzerland. Steven is Music Director for New Chamber Opera in Oxford and with them has performed repertoire from Cavalli to Rossini. For the Dartington Festival Opera Steven has conducted Handel’s Orlando and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. He is currently conductor and Artistic Advisor for the English Haydn Festival in Bridgnorth. \nSteven works regularly with the Norwegian Wind Ensemble\, Trondheim Barokk\, the Victoria Baroque Players (BC\, Canada) and Arion Baroque Ensemble (Montreal). \nHe teaches harpsichord and fortepiano at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London and is Early Keyboard Consultant to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Welsh Colleges. \nSteven is also a member of the ground-breaking Art of Moog: an electronic music group specialising in the performance of Bach. URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/online-concert-ashley-solomon-and-steven-devine/ CATEGORIES:Online Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Title-Solomon-Devine-title-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200813T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200813T203000 DTSTAMP:20241129T145840Z CREATED:20200312T173443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T145840Z UID:10000078-1597345200-1597350600@www.cobbecollection.co.uk SUMMARY:Online concert: Bach imbued with the sound of Saxony DESCRIPTION:Was streamed online – watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/Mrs4U2R_UR0 \nJosef Laming – harpsichord and piano\nHarpsichord by Ferdinand Weber\, London\, 1746\n(Adopted for 2020 by an anonymous donor)\nPiano by Ferdinand Weber\, Dublin\, 1774\n(Adopted for 2020 by Mrs P. Grayburn) \nThis concert was generously sponsored by Dr Charles & Mrs Jennifer Goldie.\nWe are also very grateful to those who have given donations that made these events possible.\nTo allow us to commission artists and put together more online concerts\, do please consider leaving a donation. \nTHE PROGRAMME\nJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) \nOn the Weber Harpsichord:\nFantasia & Fugue in A minor\, BWV 904 \nOn the Weber Piano:\nPraeambulum\, BWV 924\, from Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach\nWer nun den lieben Gott lässt walten\, BWV 691\nFugue in C major\, BWV 952 \nOn the Weber Harpsichord:\nPartite diverse sopra ‘O Gott\, du frommer Gott’\, BWV 767\nPraeludium et Partita del tuono terzo\, BWV 833\nPräludium; Allemande; Courante; Sarabande; Double \nOn the Weber Piano:\nPrelude\, Fugue\, and Allegro in E-flat major\, BWV 998 \nOn the Weber Harpsichord:\nPartia di Signore Steltzeln\, by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690-1749)\,\nfrom Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach\nOuverture; Air Italien; Bourree; Menuet (with Menuet-Trio by JS Bach\, BWV 929)\nPrelude and Fugue in G minor\, from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I\, BWV 861 \nTHE INSTRUMENTS\nThe harpsichord and ‘Forte Piano’ used in this concert were both made by Ferdinand Weber (1715 – 1784)\, born and trained in Bach’s Saxony. At the age of 30 he came to London and shortly after built the harpsichord now at Hatchlands. In 1749 he went on to Dublin where he was hailed as that ‘excellent artist from Dresden’ and where he established himself as the most important builder of keyboard instruments in the kingdom. \nIn its veneering\, his 1746 harpsichord resembles a typical London instrument of the time\, but that conceals Saxon construction and mechanisms; the instrument possesses the drier more nasal Saxon sound quality and un-English colour changing facilities with which Bach would have been familiar all his life. Weber was probably the earliest to make pianos in the English-speaking world. Only two of his pianos survive and both are very different to the pianos that emerged in London during the 1760s\, being representative of Saxon traditions prevailing in Bach’s lifetime and at the time of Weber’s departure in 1745. \nTHE MUSIC\nAll but one piece is by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)\, the exception being a piece by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690 – 1749)\, which Bach copied out\, adding to it a movement of his own composition. \nTHE PERFORMER\nJosef Laming plays harpsichord and organ and is currently a graduand of RAM\, where he studies with Carole Cerasi & James Johnstone\, and was awarded the Historical Performance ‘Enlightenment’ scholarship and won the Harold Samuel Prize for interpreting the music of JS Bach. Josef was previously organ scholar at New College\, Oxford\, and has worked as harpsichordist with the Oxford Bach Soloists. He appeared on CD with the Choir of New College and toured with them to the USA and Hungary. As an orchestral continuo player Josef has played in projects in the RAM ‘Bach the European’ series and as a chamber musician he has appeared at venues across London.\nIn September Josef will start studying at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. He has also been awarded the Samama Fellowship with Holland Baroque for the upcoming year. URL:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/event/josef-laming/ CATEGORIES:Online Concert ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2020-08-Main-card-_thumb.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR