JOY LISNEY violoncello
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Wednesday 28 September 2022Doors/Bar: 5.30pm
Concert: 6.30pm (approx. 1 hour, no interval) Tickets:
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This concert is the first in a series of four curated by Joy Lisney, each featuring one work for solo cello alongside chamber music in various combinations.
The name Seraphin Concerts refers jointly to the provenance of Joy's Giorgio Seraphin cello and to the Seraphin Project, an organisation founded to give opportunities to young musicians to perform alongside professionals of the highest level. For more information, please see www.seraphinproject.com.
The name Seraphin Concerts refers jointly to the provenance of Joy's Giorgio Seraphin cello and to the Seraphin Project, an organisation founded to give opportunities to young musicians to perform alongside professionals of the highest level. For more information, please see www.seraphinproject.com.
Programme (approx. 1 hour)Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No.1 in G Claude Debussy Cello Sonata Nadia Boulanger Three Pieces Francis Poulenc Sonata for Cello and Piano |
Bach’s first suite needs no introduction and is followed by three works by French composers spanning the first half of the twentieth century. Debussy conceived his cello sonata as one of a cycle of six, and in this sonata we find some of the most intensely emotional music of all his work. It also explores a varied palette of colours through extended cello techniques. As a boy, Poulenc was ‘intoxicated’ by the music of Debussy and in his cello sonata one cannot help but hear this inspiration behind the music. Nadia Boulanger, the legendary French pedagogue, provides a personal as well as musical link between the two. She was a great admirer of Debussy and conducted the world premiere of Poulenc’s Litanies à la Vierge Noire in London, 1936.
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Joy Lisney
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Joy Lisney is a multi-faceted musician, combining the cello with composition and conducting.
Joy has performed in the major European concert halls including the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Leipzig Gewandhaus as well as multiple sold-out recitals at London's Southbank Centre. During the pandemic she livestreamed solo concerts to an international audience, including from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Her programmes range from her own arrangement of the Bach Chaconne to world premieres by composers including Mark-Anthony Turnage, Cecilia McDowall, Jan Vriend and Judith Weir, as well as her own compositions. Joy plays on an eighteenth century Seraphin cello generously lent by Beare Violins. |
James Lisney
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James Lisney enjoys a rich musical life, moving seamlessly from concerto and recital soloist to chamber musician, song accompanist and pianist director. Initiatives, such as his Schubertreise series at London’s Southbank Centre, his extensive Beethoven Project or the recording company Woodhouse Editions, provide a platform for his wide-ranging musical sympathies.
James made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1986 and early representation by the Young Concert Artists Trust in London led to a career that has taken him to many prestigious venues and gained invitations to appear with major orchestras. Highlights include residencies at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. His repertoire ranges from baroque masterpieces to music of the present day. In the past decade, the music of Schubert and Beethoven have been a central pre-occupation (in performance and in recordings) and James regularly presents cycles of the piano sonatas and relevant chamber music. His recordings (on Naxos, Bis, Somm, Olympia and Carlton) have gained the highest recommendations. Highlights of recent seasons include Schubert cycles at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and in Mumbai. This autumn he will be touring Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations in France, the Netherlands, Bristol and the Prague Rudolfinum. |