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The Liszt Society Annual Day 2011 takes place on Friday 18 November 2011 Venue: The Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT 12. noon- 12.45(approx) Annual General Meeting (open to paid-up members of the Society) 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Hour Piano Recital given by Jayson Gillam 14.30 - 16.30 Piano Masterclass given by Leslie Howard 17.00 - 18.00 ' Liszt as prophet and Freethinker' - Talk with musical illustrations by Bryce Morrison 19.00- 20.00 (approx) Concert by students at the RAM There is no admission charge for the day's events from 13.00 onwards but attendees are requested to make a donation towards the costs of the day's activities. Suggested sum is £10. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cambridge Liszt Festival 2011 is celebrating the bicentenary of Franz Liszt with a wide range of events, including piano and organ recitals, courses and lectures (including a lecture-recital by Leslie Howard in November), orchestral concerts, contemporary dance, and performances of Liszt's choral works at collegiate Choral Evensongs. Performances are taking place in a large number of venues around Cambridge, ranging from the Fitzwilliam Museum to King's College Chapel, and with a wide variety of performers, from Jesus College Choir to the student pianist Kausikan Rajeshkumar. As such, the Festival celebrates the vigour and diversity of Cambridge musical life at the same time as the Liszt bicentenary. The Festival is supported by the Cambridge University Faculty of Music, and is sponsored by Miller's Music Centre in Cambridge and by the Pianist magazine. A full listing of the events, which are constantly being updated and augmented, can be seen at: http://cambridgelisztfestival2011.weebly.com/events.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Variations on the theme of Franz Liszt
A Book of Liszts, 'Variations on the theme of Franz Liszt', a novel by John Spurling in fifteen self-contained chapters, reflecting Liszt's practise of combining separate piano pieces into a cycle, will be published by Seagull Books in May 2011.An Audio Book of readings from the novel with piano music by Liszt, produced by Chrome Audio in 3 CDs, will be released in January 2011. For further information log in to www.johnspurling.com |
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** OUP Discount for Liszt Society Members ** Oxford University Press is offering members of the Society a 20% discount on its range of Academic Music titles. Details on the OUP website at http://www.oup.com/uk/sale/websocls |
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 £10+£1.05 p&p (UK) by writing to the Society's chairperson Elgin Ronayne at 44 Vineyard Hill Road, LONDON SW19 7JH.
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