Eelswamp Calendar 2016

Calendar 2016

January

Sunday, 17th January, 5pm


Piano and Violin Looping

Christopher Janwong McKiggan, piano
Robert Landes, violin

Deails http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2015/12/and-now-for-something-completely.html



February 

Andrey Gugnin's Third Orbit

Friday 5th: Gugnin solo piano: Highlights: Chopin etudes op 25 and Medtner Sonata Romantica

Saturday 6th: Gugnin and Tasana: Violin sonatas: 


Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata 

and 

Cesar Franck Violin Sonata

Details: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2015/12/gugnins-third-orbit.html




Sunday 7th: Mrs Gugnin and Kazutaka Shimitzu  

Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp in trio form with Gugnin accompanying. 

French works for flute and harp.







Details: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2015/12/gugnins-third-orbit.html



Monday, 29th February  

Laura Alonso Padin, 

Spanish Songs and Opera Ariashttp://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/02/spanish-soprano-sings.html






March

Sunday 6th

Julie Bees, piano

Beethoven: Waldstein Sonata
Chopin: 24 Preludes op. 28

http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/02/bees-plays-chopin-and-beethoven.html









Sunday 20th 

Korean pianist, Junghwa Lee, piano

plays Mozart, Schumann, Debussy and Chopin.



    
http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/01/junghwha-lee-plays-mozart-debussy.html




Sunday 27th

Anupama Bhagwat, sitar, plays the magnificent Malkauns and other ragas
with Sandip Ghosh, tabla

http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/01/another-sitar-genius.html



April


Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th 

Michael Tsalka - Big Bach: Two of Bach's greatest: Goldbergs and Art of Fugue, on piano and harpsichord.

Details: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/01/big-bach.html 



May


Tasana Nagavajara, violin
Pornphan Banternghansa, piano


Sunday, 8th May, 5pm



Mozart: The Four Viennese Sonatas of 1781
http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/03/mozart-free-and-infatuated.html June



June

Thursday, 2nd June, 6pm
Michele Benuzzi, harpsichord
Handel, Friends and Forefathers
A program of 17th and 18th century music 

"a level of tonal beauty that is unsurpassed"

"...suitably exuberant, willful virtuosity."

http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/05/handel-friends-and-forefathers.html




Sunday 12th, 5pm                                        cancelled
Marina Horak, piano

"professes her art with striking conviction" ... Nadia Boulanger

'Slavic Dreams and Dances' music by Tchaikovsky, Szymanowski, two lesser know Slavic composers and a healthy dose of Chopin Mazurkas.
http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/04/slavic-dreams-and-dances.html




Friday, 24th June, 6pm

Graf Mourja, violin

Paganini: 24 Caprices

http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/05/paganinis-24-caprices.html


July

Sunday, 3rd July

Eva Yulin Shen, piano

All Russian program

"...one of the best pianists of her generation" 

Yuli Turovsky, Borodin Trio (1976 – 1993) 

http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/05/sunday-3rd-july-5pm-eva-shen-piano-all.html

September

September 9th and 11th

Sobolev returns with partner: Beethoven-Liszt symphony no.3, 'Eroica' and works by Medtner, Shostakovich, Bizet and Brahms, including works for four hands.

Blog post here http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/08/sobolev-returns.html
September 30th and 2nd October - cancelled regrettably, due to a hand injury

Aleksandar Djermanovic: plays Medtner, Prokofiev, Scriabin and Liszt's, Années de Pèlerinage, Italie, complete.


October 

Trios and Cello Sonatas 28th and 30th

Dimitri and Alexandre return to play with Tasana
Two Schubert Trios and Russian Cello Sonatas.

http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-schubert-trios.html


November


Friday 18th and Sunday 20th

Evgeny Starodubtsev returns with two programs:
1. Medtner Forgotten Melodies op. 40, Brahms Four Piano Pieces op. 119 and Beethoven Sonata no 13. op. 27/1 and Sonata no 31, op. 109
and
2. Twelve Preludes and Fugues from the 24 op.87 by Shostakovich.

For more details: http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-great-russian-pianist-awesome.html 

December

Sunday 4th December, 5pm

Kanae Furomoto, piano, plays music inspired by Shakespeare

http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/11/inspired-by-bard.html

Friday, 16th, 6pm
Andrew Simon, clarinet
Warren Lee, piano

Brahms, both sonatas for clarinet and piano, op.120 
and works by Debussy and Saint Saens.

http://eelswamp.blogspot.com/2016/11/an-evening-of-clarinet-delight.html


Tentative Calendar 2017

January: Daniel van der Hoeven, Bach Toccatas (Complete)
February: Gugnin and Tasana: Prokofiev violin sonatas 1 and 2
March: Maria Lettberg, piano: Scriabin
April: Michael Tsalka, piano and harpsichord, Bach and early French music
May: Ilya Kondratiev, piano and Erzhan Kulibaev, violin
June: Hélène Tysman: Chopin, Ravel, Debussy, Bach
September: Ani and Nia Sulkhanishvili, piano duet
October: Andrew Tyson, piano
November: