Details
The Venue - Leeds College of Music
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
England
Programme
Igor Stravinsky – A Soldier's Tale
Claude Debussy – Violin Sonata
Igor Stravinsky – Three pieces for solo clarinet
Claude Debussy – Première rhapsodie
Claude Debussy – Jeux
Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring for four hands
Performers
Lucy Gould – Violin
Robert Plane – clarinet
Benjamin Frith – piano
Peter Hill – piano
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Programme Note
Debussy deeply admired Stravinsky's early Russian ballet scores. This programme fully displays Stravinsky’s Russian style in his own arrangement of The Rite of Spring for piano duet, but even by the composition of his Soldier's Tale in 1918 and the Three Pieces for Clarinet of the following year, a more post-Russian Revolutionary cosmopolitan style is emerging, influenced by jazz idioms, and who better to clarify these new traits in all their diversity than clarinet virtuoso, Robert Plane, principal clarinet of BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Stravinsky admired the senior Debussy's unfailing creative powers, even during his final illness, and of course his incredible courage in forging new paths; however in the Sonata for violin and piano, one of Debussy's last works, an older cast is employed to discover an even more intimate expression.
The ballet, Jeux was originally performed by the Ballets Russes in 1913, but was unfortunately eclipsed by the scandalous success of the Rite. In another piano four-hand arrangement by its composer we can appreciate the finesse of Debussy's score to the full. We are delighted to welcome the renowned Stravinsky and French music expert, Peter Hill to share in the performance of these two works, written at the piano by wonderful pianists!
This concert is the third in the series of six concerts curated by the Gould Piano Trio:
06 October - Gould Piano Trio
28 November - Navarra String Quartet
12 December - Lucy Gould, Robert Plane, Benjamin Frith and Peter Hill
23 January - Gould Piano Trio
13 February - Navarra String Quartet
06 March - Lucy Gould, Alicy Neary, Benjamin Frith with Ilona Domnich
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Russia in Revolution
Gould Piano Trio - Artistic Directors
One hardly needs an excuse to programme such sumptuous and compelling works as these large scale Russian Masterpieces, but in the centenary year of the Russian Revolution we have the opportunity to hear the more familiar alongside some less frequently performed pieces.
In this series we look both ways, back towards Glinka and Tchaikovsky and forwards to Shostakovich and Stravinsky. We hear some compositions born from the Friday night meetings 'Les Vendredis' in St Petersburg and we have a concert of Debussy and Stravinsky - two decades apart in age but connected by their admiration for each other. Later in the season a rarely heard arrangement of the Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade for clarinet and piano trio, no less exciting for its fewer performers, will certainly shed new light on the piece. The elegiac trio, a thread running through the series, was taken up by many of the great Russian composers spanning some 50 years. Where would the trio repertoire be without these giants?!
We look forward to welcoming our guests, the Navarra String Quartet, Peter Donohoe, Peter Hill, Ilona Domnich, Robert Plane and David Adams and to giving you, our audience, a taste of some colourful and epic adventures.
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