Pianist Mark Bebbington performs Elgar, Ireland and Dickinson: With principals from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at St John's Smith Square, London on Friday 1st October 2021

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Pianist Mark Bebbington performs Elgar, Ireland and Dickinson

With principals from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Part of the Notes From a Small Island - 2021 Series

Add to my Calendar 01-10-2021 13:00 01-10-2021 15:00 36 Pianist Mark Bebbington performs Elgar, Ireland and Dickinson ‘Notes from a Small Island’ is a series of concerts in which pianist Mark Bebbington showcases major works by British composers of the twentieth century. In this second concert, Mark is joined by some of London’s leading instrumentalists, principals from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, for a delightfully rich and varied chamber programme. John Ireland’s lush Fantasy-Sonata for Piano and Clarinet, reflecting in 1943 the composer’s recent experience of evacuation from Jersey, paves the way for an earlier example of chamber music written in time of war: Elgar’s sublime Piano Quintet of 1918. Rejuvenated and inspired by the peace and rural beauty of the Sussex countryside, Elgar displays imaginative, unabashed late romanticism and a richness of texture that is at times almost orchestral – “full of golden sounds and I like it”, wrote the composer himself. Linking the two works is a pair of pieces by one of Britain’s most respected composers, Peter Dickinson (b 1934). First, ‘Lullaby’: originally part of a six-movement suite called ‘The Unicorns’ (1982), it has been arranged by the composer for both voice and clarinet, and now for solo piano in a version dedicated to Mark Bebbington. It is followed by a set of miniatures - five delicious ‘Forgeries’ for piano duet evoking in turn the spirits of Poulenc, Hindemith, Delius, Stravinsky and Bartok, in which Mark will be joined by the Malaysian pianist, Irene Loh. St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England

Friday 1st October 2021
1:00 PM

Programme

John Ireland – Fantasy-Sonata in E flat major
Edward Elgar – Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op.84
Peter Dickinson – Forgeries
Peter Dickinson – The Unicorns: Lullaby

Performers

Mark Bebbington – piano
Katherine Lacy – clarinet

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (members)

Programme Note

‘Notes from a Small Island’ is a series of concerts in which pianist Mark Bebbington showcases major works by British composers of the twentieth century. In this second concert, Mark is joined by some of London’s leading instrumentalists, principals from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, for a delightfully rich and varied chamber programme.

John Ireland’s lush Fantasy-Sonata for Piano and Clarinet, reflecting in 1943 the composer’s recent experience of evacuation from Jersey, paves the way for an earlier example of chamber music written in time of war: Elgar’s sublime Piano Quintet of 1918. Rejuvenated and inspired by the peace and rural beauty of the Sussex countryside, Elgar displays imaginative, unabashed late romanticism and a richness of texture that is at times almost orchestral – “full of golden sounds and I like it”, wrote the composer himself.

Linking the two works is a pair of pieces by one of Britain’s most respected composers, Peter Dickinson (b 1934). First, ‘Lullaby’: originally part of a six-movement suite called ‘The Unicorns’ (1982), it has been arranged by the composer for both voice and clarinet, and now for solo piano in a version dedicated to Mark Bebbington. It is followed by a set of miniatures - five delicious ‘Forgeries’ for piano duet evoking in turn the spirits of Poulenc, Hindemith, Delius, Stravinsky and Bartok, in which Mark will be joined by the Malaysian pianist, Irene Loh.

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