David Hammond: Yorkshire Airs and A Cuckoo In Spring
YORK Late Music presents pianist David Hammond’s Yorkshire Airs and A Cuckoo In Spring concert at Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York, today at 1pm.
Hammond continues his exploration of composers with a Yorkshire connection in an afternoon programme of Richard Stoker’s Zodiac Variations; Frederick Delius’s On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring; William Baines’s Goodnight To Flamboro’; Sadie Harrison’s tribute to Baines, 3 Portraits Of William Baines from Shadows; Catherine Holbrook’s Flamborough Sea Cave; Samuel Mather’s Yorkshire Airs and the premiere of new works by Hammond and Elin Alaw.
Pianist Jakob Fichert leads off tomorrow’s brace of York Late Music concerts with his 1pm programme curated by composer and University of York alumnus Tom Armstrong in a tapestry of variations: four discreet panels threading together variation works from the 19th to the 21st centuries.
Jakob Fichert: Concert and talk
James Else’s A Stolen Moment will be followed by Franz Liszt’s Au Bord d’une Source; Variation Tapestry I: a solo piano collage curated by Tom Armstrong; Panel 1, Aaron Copland, Variations/Tom Armstrong, Dance Maze: Variations, and Panel 2, Georg Von Albrecht, Piano Sonata in C Minor (2nd movement Adagio)/Ronald Stevenson, Passacaglia on DSCH (Tempo di Valse and Lento Lamentoso).
Panel 3 comprises Robert Schumann’s Etudes, in the form of free variations on a theme of Beethoven, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major (2nd movement Allegretto), transcribed by Franz Liszt.
The concluding Panel 4 features Bela Bartók’s Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs ( 3 and 8) and Kenneth Leighton’s Nine Variations (2 and 4).
Ian Pace: The Beethoven Project continues with Symphony No. 6 (transcribed by Franz Liszt)
At 7.30pm tomorrow, pianist Ian Pace continues The Beethoven Project’s exploration of Beethoven’s nine symphonies (transcribed by Franz Liszt) with his iconic Pastoral Symphony No.6, complemented by Michael Finnissy’s English Country Tunes (movements 1-3) and Beethoven’s Six Goethe-Lieder (transcribed by Franz Liszt).
Three new musical tributes by York Late Music administrator Steve Crowther will be premiered too: Rock With Stock, A Study In Glass and Louis’ Angry Blues. Jakob Fichert gives a pre-concert talk at 6.45pm with a complimentary glass of wine or juice.
Tickets are on sale at latemusic.org or on the door.