The music of master Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt is explored in an intimate performance by pianist Chris Cartner. Coincidentally it is the birth anniversary of Liszt on October 22nd (b 1811). From the exquisite tenderness of the D-flat Consolation, through the devilish drama of the Mephisto Waltz, and with all the exuberance of…
Resonance commemorates the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One with a moving presentation of music, poetry and drama. Various aspects and emotions of the war will be examined, from the front line to the lives of those at home. Join narrator Clare Mack, baritone Ashley Giles and pianist Chris Cartner for this one-hour presentation, featuring music by Poulenc, Vaughan…
Be spooked with The Reservoir Trio’s mid-winter programme which explores music inspired by both the earth and the world of the supernatural. Beethoven’s D major trio has acquired the nickname Ghost based on its “strangely scored and undeniably eerie-sounding slow movement”. Its outer movements are, however, completely typical of Beethoven’s ‘middle period’, and consist of music which…