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UK Premiere Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS
Five Impressions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (with Prelude), for cello and piano
Add to my Calendar 08-05-2017 19:30 08-05-2017 21:30 36 UK Premiere Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS American composer Geoffrey Gordon’s powerful ‘cello and piano sonata FATHOMS receives its UK premiere with Danish cellist Toke Møldrup, among the most prominent musicians in Scandinavia, and Steven Beck, one of the finest young American pianists. They present FATHOMS in a rich programme of American, English and Danish music which opens with Gordon’s Lorca Music per Cello Solo, followed by Koppel’s Ternio, Op. 53b – one of the Danish composer’s best known and most exuberant works, Britten’s Cello Sonata and Vaughan Williams’ Six Studies in English Folk Song. St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England
Programme
Geoffrey Gordon – Lorca Music per Cello Solo
Herman Koppel – Ternio, Op. 53b
Benjamin Britten – Cello Sonata in C major, Op.65
Ralph Vaughan Williams – 6 Studies in English folksong
Geoffrey Gordon – FATHOMS (Five Impressions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest - with Prelude)
Performers
Toke Møldrup – Cello
Steven Beck – piano
Programme Note
American composer Geoffrey Gordon’s powerful ‘cello and piano sonata FATHOMS receives its UK premiere with Danish cellist Toke Møldrup, among the most prominent musicians in Scandinavia, and Steven Beck, one of the finest young American pianists.
They present FATHOMS in a rich programme of American, English and Danish music which opens with Gordon’s Lorca Music per Cello Solo, followed by Koppel’s Ternio, Op. 53b – one of the Danish composer’s best known and most exuberant works, Britten’s Cello Sonata and Vaughan Williams’ Six Studies in English Folk Song.
