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Verdi’s
La Traviata. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti, director: Simon Stone. With Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, and Margaret Plummer. Register for free and view here. LIVE
2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Rattle conducts Stravinsky. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments,
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920),
Four Norwegian Moods, Suite No 1, and Suite No 2. View here.
2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London, Spring presents
Joanna MacGregor. To celebrate International Women’s Day, pianist Joanna MacGregor curates a journey from the Deep South to New York, from Russian poetry to an African paradise. The program includes Florence Price’s spiritual arrangements, Margaret Bond’s
By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 February 2021 at 13:19
Recorder quartet Palisander, with Lydia Gosnell front left. Photograph: Marc McGarraghy
East London recorder quartet Palisander first hit the headlines in 2016 after successfully raising thousands of pounds for a six-foot tall contrabass recorder, before self-releasing their debut album a year later to wide critical acclaim.
The foursome have since performed all over the world, but, like many musicians, have had their wings clipped by the Covid pandemic.
To keep busy, the band has been working behind the scenes on various projects, one of which has seen them announced as the partner ensemble for the National Centre for Early Music’s (NCEM) prestigious Young Composers Award 2021.
Bard Music Festival Presents a Program of French Piano Music
Both the recital and scholar talk will be available to stream on-demand through UPSTREAMING, the Fisher Center at Bard’s virtual stage, February 19–25.by BWW News Desk
This February, the Bard Music Festival presents A Program of French Piano Music, Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger, a recital of French music performed by pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in fall 2020. Commissioned by the Bard Music Festival, the concert features works by César Franck, Lili Boulanger, Gabriel Fauré, and Camille Saint-Saëns. The program includes a talk by renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis introducing the work of these four composers and of the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.
Robert Layton obituary Brian Jarman
My friend Robert Layton, who has died aged 90, was a musicologist and Radio 3 producer for more than 30 years who specialised in Scandinavian music and wrote biographies of Sibelius and the Swedish composer Franz Berwald.
Bob was born in Chadwell Heath, east London, the younger child of Edward Layton, a stockbroker, and his wife, Rhoda (nee Aaron), a homemaker. He learned the piano from the age of nine, and excelled at it by the time he was 11. He gave a piano recital of Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau on the BBC Third Programme in 1948, when he was 17.