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Details
Blackheath Halls
23 Lee Road
Blackheath
London
SE3 9RQ
England
Programme
Benjamin Britten – The Poet's Echo
Dmitry Shostakovich – Pushkin Romances Op. 46
Sergey Prokofiev – Pushkin Romances, Op.73
Igor Stravinsky – Le Renard: selection
Performers
Gemma Lois Summerfield – soprano
Gareth Brynmor John – baritone
Abi Hyde-Smith – Cello
Jocelyn Freeman – piano / Artistic Director
Ensemble Sovrennik
Programme Note
Award-winning singers Gemma Summerfield (soprano) and Gareth Brynmor John (baritone) join talented cellist Abi Hyde-Smith and pianist Jocelyn Freeman for an evening of chamber music and song.
This concert includes the world-premiere of a new arrangement of Benjamin Britten’s The Poet’s Echo for soprano, cello and piano alongside works by Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Shostakovich, in honour of the 185th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin, the grandfather of Russian literature.
SongEasel's Icons & Legends 2022 Series celebrates a notorious dinner meeting in Paris in May 1922 that included Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev.
