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Details
Online event
London
England
Programme
Johannes Brahms – Intermezzo in E flat major, Op.117 no.1
Gustav Mahler – Rückert-Lieder: Um Mitternacht (At Midnight)
Joseph Haydn – Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Hob.XVI:49: 1st movement
Arnold Schoenberg – 6 Little Piano Pieces, Op.19
Performers
Lotte Betts-Dean – mezzo-soprano
George Fu – piano
Jonathan Berman – Presenter
Programme Note
https://www.greengageventures.com/.
Postcards is a series of 'talk plus recital' programmes about Viennese music. With your ticket, you'll access 4 episodes ('postcards') over the course of 4 days to watch anytime that suits you, plus an optional live video discussion on the 11th of December or another date that suits you.
Filmed in the Austrian Cultural Forum in London in 2020.
The talks are given by Jonathan Berman.
About the artists:
Described by the Boston Music Intelligencer as a “heroic piano soloist” with “stunning virtuosity”, Chinese-American pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu is establishing a reputation as a captivating performer with distinctive intelligence and sensitivity.
Australian mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean is a versatile and dynamic concert artist, whose performance experience encompasses opera, oratorio, contemporary music, art song recital/chamber music, early music and non-classical collaborations. She has been based in London since 2014 and works internationally, most often in the UK and Australia. Lotte is Associate Artist with Southbank Sinfonia, and is a member of London-based contemporary music group Ensemble x.y. She is also a City Music Foundation Artist for 2017-2019, recently won the 2019 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, and was selected as a 2020 Samling Young Artist. Lotte is a regular collaborator with guitarist Andrey Lebedev with whom she won the inaugural 2018 New Elizabethan Award. Lotte is one 2018 bursars with the Imogen Cooper Music Trust and in 2019 became a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
Jonathan Berman is a Conductor who performs with orchestras all over the world. He is known for his unique approach to communicating complex ideas with all audiences. He goes above and beyond the traditional role of a conductor, forming the trust of audiences from traditional listeners to the next generation. He is currently in the process of recording the complete symphonies and promoting the music of Franz Schmidt. At the start of lockdown, he began the website standtogethermusic.com in order to promote artists who have had cancellations.
