Eelswamp Calendar 2025
Subject to minor changes
All concerts are at 6pm
January
Andrey Gugnin returns
Triumphant again!
"I told you I'd win it" ... and he did.
Winner of 12th International German Piano Award in 2023, the BBC Music Magazine Awards Instrumental Award and the €100,000 2024 Classic Piano International Competition in Dubai, as well as the Sydney International Piano Competition in 2016 and the Gina Bachauer in 2015.
1. Friday 17th:
Gugnin Solo 1: Liszt Twelve Transcendental Etudes
Andrey's performance of the Liszt Etudes won the praise of Gramaphone Magazine:
"Gugnin’s cultivated pianissimo presto leggiero, imperturbable rhythmicality, his preference for the heroic over the melodramatic, and not least his wealth of poetic imagination, easily place him in elite company." Gramaphone Magazine.
2. Sunday 19th Gugnin Piano Quartets
Andrey Gugnin piano
Elizabeth Layton violin
Tasana Nagavajara viola
Edith Salzmann violoncello
Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat op.47
Mozart Piano Quartet no. 1 in G minor K. 478
3. Monday 20th Gugnin Solo 2:
Liszt Sonata in B minor
and
Chopin Etudes op. 10
Book now with Helen:
1,200 for one, 2,000 for two, 3,000 baht for all three concerts
Friday 31st
Toto and friends
Schubert String Trio in B flat D471
Mozart's Divertimento in E flat, K563
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February
Evgeny Starobdubtsev
After five years, one of the stars of Eelswamp returns with two programs. Evgeny has won more than thirty first and second prizes in international competitions in the last decade. He played at Eelswamp annually pre-covid to enthusiastic audiences. I'm very happy to welcome him back.
1. Friday 14th
Messiaen Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant Jesus
The work is frequently compared to Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's late piano sonatas for its combination of intellectual depth and spiritual resonance.
"... a landmark in the piano repertoire" Alex Ross
"a cosmic exploration of love, eternity, and the divine." Paul Griffiths
2. Sunday 16th
Evgeny joined by his wife, Alexandra
Beethoven Grosse Fugue for four hands, transcribed by Beethoven himself as op. 134
and Evgeny will play solo works by Liszt from Années de pèlerinage Book 3, The Martinu Sonata, Medtner and Feinberg
Book now with Helen:
1,200 for one, 2,000 for two concerts
March
Eunhee Baek
Korean Liszt specialist, Eunhee Baek, was a prize winner in many competitions including the International Pietro-Argento competition, International Artur-Schnabel competition (2011/Berlin), International Liszt Danubia Competition, and International Franz Liszt Center Competition (2022).
She will give two performances of Liszt's monumental cycle, Ten Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
I have listened to dozens of recordings of the Liszt Harmonies and Eunhee's July 2024 recording is one of the best. We are very fortunate to have her come to play it for us. I'm so thrilled to have her come here that I have scheduled two performances of the work.
1. Friday March 7th Liszt Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
and the same program repeated on
2. Sunday March 9th, Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
3. Monday March 10th, Eunhee will play a solo recital
Works by Rameau, Liszt, Debussy and Grieg. Details available on request.
Book now with Helen:
1,200 for one, 2,000 for two, 3,000 baht for all three concerts
