Society News
The Society's 2008 Annual General Meeting will be held at
12.00 on Friday 28th November 2008 in The Music Hall at the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama, Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DT on Friday 28
November 2008.
(Nearest underground Stations, Barbican or Moorgate). There is free admission to all events.
Programme
12.00 Liszt Society Annual General Meeting
Please note the new time for the Annual General Meeting, which will be held at 12 noon.
Liszt Society members are invited to attend the AGM prior to the Annual Day events.
13.00 Lunchtime Piano Recital by Vitaly Pisarenko
A rare opportunity to hear the brilliant young Ukrainian pianist Vitaly Pisarenko, winner of the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht in April 2008, performing for the first time in Britain.
http://www.liszt.nl/english/prize_winners/VitalyPisarenko.html
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vRvTJFf2Kz0
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JziHtRSG9WM
Liszt Polonaise No.2 in E major, S223/2
Liszt Valse-Impromptu, S213
Saint -Saëns/Liszt Danse macabre, S555
Liszt Vallée d'Obermann [Années de pčlerinage I] S160/6
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor, S244/2
This concert is sponsored by The Liszt Society in association with The Keyboard Charitable Trust
14.30 Masterclass - Dr Leslie Howard [President of The Liszt Society]
A piano and instrumental masterclass given by Dr Leslie Howard (http://www.lesliehowardpianist.com/)
17.00 Talk on Liszt songs by Ross Alley
19.00 Liszt Concert by musicians of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
The Liszt Society is profoundly grateful to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/ for hosting this event, and the tremendous support from staff and musicians in organising and taking part. Full details of the day’s events are given in the November Newsletter.
There is no charge for attendance on the day. However we would be pleased to receive individual donations from both members and their guests to help defray the running costs. A sum of Ł5 per person is suggested.
For planning purposes the GSMD has requested that we advise them how many members, including guests, will be attending. Therefore would all members intending to attend please contact the Membership Secretary Andrew King at:- andranik@tagavor.fsnet.co.uk or phone 01438 717724.
Any member wishing to nominate another member to the Council is asked to notify the Membership Secretary no later than Friday, November 21. Details of the Council membership and the notification procedure for nominating a member for Council is set out in the formal notice of the AGM which has been sent to all current members.
Bernhard Stavenhagen 1862-1914
Pianist, conductor and last pupil of Franz Liszt
A recital of his piano pieces and songs performed by Elgin Strub-Ronayne, Monika Dehler and Ernest Hutcheson and works by Liszt played by Stavenhagen on piano rolls has been re-released on CD by Symposium Records.
Franz Liszt took Bernhard Stavenhagen with him as companion and secretary on his last international tour in the Spring of 1886. In April they arrived in London where Stavenhagen made his debut, playing Liszt’s Piano Concerto no 1 in Eb at the Crystal Palace.
Three months later, on 31st July, Liszt died and Stavenhagen devoted the rest of his life to promoting Liszt’s music, as well as that of other contemporary composers. He had little time to compose and many of his works are lost or long out of print. The pieces presented on this CD were tracked down in archives by his great-niece Elgin Strub-Ronayne who made the first recordings in Weimar in 1987. The disc includes historic recordings of Stavenhagen himself performing the two Légendes and three other Liszt works on piano rolls recorded in 1905. Several of these rolls are inscribed ‘Nach persönlicher Erinnerung an Liszt’ (according to personal memory of Liszt).
The CD is available at Ł10+Ł1.05 p&p (UK) by writing to the Society's chairperson Elgin Ronayne at 44 Vineyard Hill Road, LONDON SW19 7JH.