Music from the Pit - Violin Recital at St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh on Saturday 27th May 2023

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Music from the Pit - Violin Recital

Add to my Calendar 27-05-2023 19:30 27-05-2023 21:30 36 Music from the Pit - Violin Recital Opera Caledonia is delighted to present “Music from the Pit” – an evening of operatic transcriptions for violin and piano featuring violinist Angus Ramsay, set in the beautiful surroundings of St. Vincent’s Chapel, Edinburgh. Angus Ramsay studied under the celebrated violinist Max Rostal at the Music Conservatoire in Bern, Switzerland. Throughout the last 35 years, he has performed both as a soloist and as part of many of the most respected and well-known orchestras and chamber music groups in the UK and Europe. He is Artistic Director of The Music Parlour and The Cantilena Festival, teaches extensively throughout Scotland and has also spent his career as a principal player in the Orchestra of Scottish Opera. The programme will include violin transcriptions of many of opera’s most well known and recognisable works, featuring the music of La bohème, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro alongside the music of Gounod, Purcell, Massenet, Monteverdi, Saint-Saens, Bellini, Gluck, Mascagni and Tchaikovsky. A musical host will guide you through the programme, giving some background to the music performed and putting the pieces into their operatic context. Interval refreshments will be served. Children aged 10 and above are welcome to attend this recital. They must have their own ticket and sit next to an accompanying adult. Opera Caledonia concerts and events are run in complete compliance with all Scottish Government Covid-19 rules and regulations – providing audience members with peace of mind that they are in a safe environment. More details, including our refund policy, can be found on our website: www.operacaledonia.co.uk. Artists and programme are subject to alteration. St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Vincent's Chapel
St Vincent Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6SW
Scotland

Saturday 27th May 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Georg Wichtl – Waltz from Gounod's 'Faust'
Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas: 'Ah! Belinda, when I am laid in earth'
Ludwig van Beethoven – 12 Variations on 'Se vuol ballare' for Violin and Piano, WoO 40
Jules Massenet – Thais: Meditation
Claudio Monteverdi – L'incoronazione di Poppea: duet 'Pur ti miro'
Felix Winternitz – Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix from Saint-Saens' 'Samson e Dalila'
Charles Dancla – Theme & Variations on Bellini's 'La Straniera'
~ Interval ~
Fritz Kreisler – Melodie from Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice'
Pilade Chelazzi – Reminiscenze di 'La Bohème', Op.112
Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo
Leopold Auer – Lensky's Aria from Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin'
Émile Cousin – Fantasie Elegante on Rossini's 'Il barbiere di Siviglia'

Performers

Angus Ramsay – violin

Programme Note

Opera Caledonia is delighted to present “Music from the Pit” – an evening of operatic transcriptions for violin and piano featuring violinist Angus Ramsay, set in the beautiful surroundings of St. Vincent’s Chapel, Edinburgh.

Angus Ramsay studied under the celebrated violinist Max Rostal at the Music Conservatoire in Bern, Switzerland. Throughout the last 35 years, he has performed both as a soloist and as part of many of the most respected and well-known orchestras and chamber music groups in the UK and Europe. He is Artistic Director of The Music Parlour and The Cantilena Festival, teaches extensively throughout Scotland and has also spent his career as a principal player in the Orchestra of Scottish Opera.

The programme will include violin transcriptions of many of opera’s most well known and recognisable works, featuring the music of La bohème, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro alongside the music of Gounod, Purcell, Massenet, Monteverdi, Saint-Saens, Bellini, Gluck, Mascagni and Tchaikovsky.

A musical host will guide you through the programme, giving some background to the music performed and putting the pieces into their operatic context. Interval refreshments will be served.

Children aged 10 and above are welcome to attend this recital. They must have their own ticket and sit next to an accompanying adult.

Opera Caledonia concerts and events are run in complete compliance with all Scottish Government Covid-19 rules and regulations – providing audience members with peace of mind that they are in a safe environment.

More details, including our refund policy, can be found on our website: www.operacaledonia.co.uk.

Artists and programme are subject to alteration.

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