Blog Archives
LATIN JOURNEYS
2 November 2022
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas in Fm K.386 & Bm K.87
Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5 ‘Andaluza’
Piazzolla: Ave Maria
Albeniz: Cordoba & Asturias
Sofia Ros
Oliva: Danzón No. 1 – Valle de Bravo
Ponce: Scherzino Mexicano
Brouwer: Canción de Cuna
Lauro: Four Venezuelan Waltzes
Brouwer: Danza del Altiplano
Mangoré: Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios.
Villa-Lobos: Preludio No. 1
Morgan Szymanski
A double bill of guitar and accordion as Szymanski and Ros take a musical tour around Central and South America and Spain. Szymanski appeared in the very first ENF back in 2005 as a young artist, and we are thrilled to welcome him back alongside Ros who makes her debut this year having spent the past few years winning prize after prize and making first appearances in venues like Carnegie Hall and Vienna Konzerthaus.
BELCEA QUARTET & FRIENDS 1
31 October 2022
From Liszt’s Les Années de Pélérinage, Deuxième année: Italie
Sposalizio
Sonetto 123
Après une lecture du Dante
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Brahms: Sextet No 1 in B-flat, Op. 18
Belcea Quartet
Diyang Mei, viola
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
The Belcea Quartet returns to ENF with their ‘dream team’ of fellow musicians to play solo, duo, quartet and sextet over the course of the festival. Their starting points are the two sextets by Brahms – big pieces, heroic, tender, ethereal and passionate by turns – just wonderful chamber music. In two concerts (see also Friday 7.30) we hear them alongside virtuoso piano music from Bertrand Chamayou. We hear that Brahms and Liszt had little time for each other (Brahms reputedly fell asleep at a Liszt concert, while Liszt once called Brahms’ music ‘hygienic’) but we think they make a pretty good combination!
QUEYRAS PLAYS BACH
Kurtág: Selection from Signs, Games, and Messages
Anon (Marais?): Les Regrets
Saygun: Partita for cello solo, Op. 31
Marais: La rêveuse
J S Bach: Suite in Cm for Cello, BWV 1011
Queyras opens ENF23 in the lovely, sunlit interior of Kilrenny Church with a characteristically rich, fascinating programme dotting between the 18th and 20th centuries. Opening with Kurtág’s intense miniatures and culminating in Bach’s towering 5th Suite, this will be a mesmerising hour of music in the company of one of the world’s leading cellists.
YEOL EUM SON
Mozart: Fantasy in Cm, K. 475
Janáček: Sonata 1.X.1905 (From the Street)
Mozart: Sonata in Cm, K. 457
Kapustin: Sonata No. 2
Son is so well known for her wonderful Mozart playing, so we asked her to juxtapose him with very different masterworks – Janáček’s impassioned tribute to a hero of Czech nationalism and Kapustin’s show-stopping jazz–classical fusion.
CASTALIAN QUARTET 1
Mozart: Quartet in Dm, K.421
Dvořák: Quartet in G, Op. 106
The Observer described a recent Castalian Quartet concert as ‘…full of poetry, joy and sorrow’, which perfectly suits this programme. Dvořák called Mozart ‘sweet sunshine’, but in fact Mozart is the one in intense and dramatic mood while Dvořák himself supplies many sunny, happy moments, even if they are tempered with darker moods. A compelling combination from this superb quartet.
