A short celebration of the music of Sir Arnold Bax

Monday June 18th, Lunchtime Concert, RH, 12.10pm.

Bax Clarinet Sonata, performed by Joe Wallace (clarinet) and Veronika Tabakova (piano).

Bax Piano Solos:
Winter Waters – Eungi Chung
The Princess’s Rose Gardens – Veronika Tabakova
What the Minstrel Told Us – Ginevra Paniati
Mediterranean – Daniel Karout
Lullaby – Yung-Li Chen
Whirligig – Olivia Mun Chew
Water Music – James Allen
Country County Tune – Kuan-Hua Lai
2 Russian Tone Pictures (Nocturne – May Night in Ukraine, Gopak) – Fu-Min Tseng

Bax Hardanger for 2 Pianos Fu-Min Tseng and Kuan-Hua Lai

Tuesday June 19th, Lunctime Concert, 12.10pm Concert Hall.
Celebrity Cello Recital

Alexander Baillie (cello)
John Thwaites (piano)
An extremely rare opportunity to hear both the major Cello Sonatas by Bax..that in E flat minor and F sharp minor (“Legend”).

“It’s an outstanding partnership.” The Observer
“As if written in blood, these are passionate, focused, full-blooded readings. Alexander Baillie and John Thwaites invest each work with the power of utter belief.” BBC Music Magazine

3pm Concert Hall
Bax Fest!

In a Festival Marathon, hear the great Nonet and Elegiac Trio, the 3rd Violin buy alprazolam bulk Sonata and Ballad with special guests Lucia Veintimilla (violin) and Greta Astedt (piano), and world premiere performances of rare songs (sincere thanks to Graham Parlett for his help in preparing scores), all leavened with poetry readings of W.B.Yeats.

Bax

Ballad and Violin Sonata No. 3
Lucia Veintimilla and Great Astedt

Bax Song Premieres:

Charlotte Sleet and Domonkos Csabay
Garden by the Sea

Roxanne Korda and Pascal Pascalev
Longing

Sian Roberts and Domonkos Csabay
Isla

Miles Taylor and James Allen
Of Her Mercy

Miles Taylor and Kuan-Hua Lai
Grand Match

Jack Dolan and Edward Leung
Das Tote Kind

Bax String Quartet in G major.
Artume Quartet: Leonie Jones, Lucy Armstong, Holly Coombes, Joanna Cartwright

Short Interval

Bax: Elegiac Trio

Yu-Syuan Li – Flute
Rebecca Stubbs – Viola
Rita Schindler – Harp

W.B Yeats Short Poetry Reading

Bax: Nonet

Abigail Keers – Flute
Joseph Wallace – Clarinet
Olivia Sterlini – Oboe
Alicja Humeniuk – Violin
Hun-sik Lee – Violin
Mabon Lyr – Viola
Harry Broom – Cello
Aisling Reilly – Bass
Rita Schindler – Harp