Details
Great Hall - Dartington Hall
Dartington
Totnes
Devon
TQ9 6EL
England
Programme
Franz Schubert – Four Impromptus, D.899
Franz Liszt – Nuages Gris, S.199
Franz Liszt – La Lugubre Gondola 1, S.200
Richard Wagner – Tristan and Isolde, Act 3: Isolde's Liebestod (arr. F Liszt)
Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata no.21 in B flat major, D.960
Performers
Joanna MacGregor – piano
James Runcie – Reader
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Programme Note
A wonderfully evocative concert of Schubert’s last profound piano sonata and his gorgeous, most celebrated impromptus. It’s paired here with Liszt’s magnificent portrayals of the sea, and matched by James Runcie’s readings of Schiller and Goethe.
Joanna MacGregor is one of the world’s most innovative musicians, appearing as a concert pianist, curator and collaborator. Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of the University of London, Joanna MacGregor is also the Artistic Director of Dartington International Summer School & Festival.
James Runcie is a writer, director and literary curator. He is the author of The Grantchester Mysteries, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University, and the Commissioning Editor for Arts at BBC Radio 4. He was born in 1959, educated at Marlborough College, Cambridge University and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He was a founder member of The Late Show, and made documentary films for the BBC for fifteen years. He then went freelance to make programmes for Channel 4 and ITV. He was Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival from 2010-2013, and Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre in London from 2013-2015.