Cambridge Liszt Festival 2011
This page lists all Liszt-related events taking place in Cambridge over the course of 2011. The

page is continually being updated with new events as confirmation is received, so it is worth

checking this page on a regular basis.


January:

Pembroke College Music Society recital by pianist Phoebe Kemp. Programme to include Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Haydn, and Gershwin. 9pm, Old Library, Pembroke College; tickets £2.

February:

Piano recital by Luisa Splett at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, at 8pm on Saturday 5th February. Programme to include Liszt's 'Vallée d' Obermann' as well as pieces by Scriabin, Advis, Frey and Haydn. Free admission.

The duet version of Liszt's famous Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 features in a piano recital at Michaelhouse Chapel, Cambridge, at 1pm on Saturday 19th February. Also on the programme by pianists Johanna Scoones and Ann Woolley: Debussy's Petite suite and Saint-Saen's Danse Macabre.  Free admission.

Some of Liszt's works for violin and piano are on the programme for a Fitzwilliam Promenade Concert to be given by Helen Roche and James Drinkwater at 1.15pm on Sunday 27th February. Free admission, retiring collection.

March:

All-Liszt organ recital in King's College Chapel, by Peter King, Director of Music at Bath Abbey at 6.30pm on Saturday, 12th March, 2011. Free entry, retiring collection. Programme to include:

    Sposalizio
    Funerailles
    Consolation in Db
    Canzonetta del Salvatore Rosa
    Legend of St Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves (tr. Max Reger)


King's Voices, the mixed-voice choir of King's College Cambridge, will perform Liszt's late choral masterpiece 'Via Crucis' in King's College Chapel at 5.30pm on Monday 14th March. Free entry, retiring collection.

The Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and dancers from the Cambridge Contemporary Dance Company will perform a programme of choral work (including Liszt) and contemporary dance in the Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs at 8pm on Sunday 20th March. The programme, which will be directed by Caius Director of Music Dr Geoffrey Webber, will include Liszt's 'Via Crucis', the Messe de Tournai, and works by James MacMillan. Tickets £10/£5 concessions. Advance booking: [email protected]

Clare College pianist Tzi-Huei Lai will perform a varied programme of piano music to raise funds for organisations assisting with the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The programme will include Liszt's transcription of Schumann's Widmung and all four of Chopin's Ballades. The event will take place in Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge, at 7.30pm on Sunday, March 27th. Free entry, donation box.

April:

Pianist Yumeto Suenaga will perform the three works that comprise Liszt's 'Venezia e Napoli' in the Dining Hall of Clare Hall, Cambridge, at 7.30pm on Saturday 30th April. The programme also includes works by Mozart and Mussourgski; for details visit http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/index.php?id=493


May:

Liszt's rarely-heard concert study 'Il Lamento' features on the programme of chamber music to be given by the Cambridge Chamber Ensemble at 7.45pm on Friday 6th May, Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. The programme also includes music by Mozart, Brahms and Haydn.

Organist Parker Ramsey will perform Liszt's great organ work Fantasia and Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam' at a recital in King's College Chapel, at 6.30pm on Saturday 7th May.

Sunday Promenade Concert on the theme of 'Liszt and Art' at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1.15pm-2pm, 8th May 2011. Following an introductory talk by Festival Director Conor Farrington, pianist Kausikan Rajeshkumar will perform a range of piano works by Liszt, including Sposalizio, Tarantella, and the first Mephisto Waltz. Free entry, retiring collection.

Trinity College Choir will perform Liszt's wonderful choral work 'Die Seligkeiten' (The Beatitudes), for baritone, choir, and organ, at Evensong at 6.15pm on 12th May 2011, at Trinity College Chapel.

Evensong at King's College at 3.30pm on Sunday 22nd May will include two organ works by Liszt: the Variations on the Basso Continuo of the First Movement of the Cantata 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' and the Crucifixus of the B minor Mass by Bach, and the Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam'.

Jesus College Choir will perform Liszt's beautiful choral work 'Ave Maris Stella' at Choral Evensong at 6pm on Sunday 22nd May at Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Director of Music Mark Williams will also perform Liszt's organ work 'Praeludium und Fuge uber BACH' as a Voluntary at the end of the service (which also includes music by Howells and Poulenc). 


Stephen Cleobury, Director of Music of King's College, Cambridge, will perform one of Liszt's great organ works (the Variations on the Basso Continuo of the First Movement of the Cantata 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen' and the Crucifixus of the B minor Mass by Bach) at an organ recital in King's College Chapel at 6.30pm on Saturday 28th May.

June:

'Liszt: a 19th Century Musical Enigma' - Residential course at the Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education
3rd-5th June 2011
http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/component/courses/?view=course&cid=3546

King's College Organ Scholar Ben-San Lau will include Liszt's 'Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H' in his organ recital in King's College Chapel, at 6.30pm on Saturday 11th June.

September:

New Europe presents the first of two Liszt-themed concerts at 6.30pm on Sunday 11th September, in the Gonville & Caius College Bateman Auditorium. Pianist Marie-Noelle Kendall will perform works by Schubert and Chopin alongside Liszt's transcription of Schubert's Die Forelle and Liszt's Two Concert Studies (La Leggierezza and Waldesrauschen). Tickets £15, £10 concessions, £5 students/children. Available on the door, or book at www.neweurope.org.uk.

Festival Director Conor Farrington's book of short stories 'A Countryman's Creel' published on the 15th September by Merlin Unwin, containing a story about a concert pianist devoted to Liszt: http://www.merlinunwin.co.uk/bookDetails.asp?bookId=125&categoryId=

October
:

Orchestral concert including works by Liszt to be given by the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Lovett, at West Road Concert Hall at 7.30pm on Saturday 15th October.
Programme to include Liszt's symphonic poem Les Preludes and the Piano Concerto No.1 in Eb Major, with soloist Erdem Misirlioglu (Winner of Pianoforte, BBC Young Musician of the Year, 2008), together with Brahms' Symphony No.3.
Tickets range from £5 to £18, and can be purchased online from ADC Theatre Ticketing (http://www.adcticketing.com/shows/genre/ccso) by phone (01223 300085 – 12.30-7.00pm Tues, Fri & Sat, 3.00-7.00pm Wed & Thurs) or in person from ADC Box Office, Park St, Cambridge, CB5 8AS. See http://ccso-online.org.uk/ for further details.

One of the highlights of the Liszt Festival year is an all-Liszt concert to be given at 8pm on Saturday 22nd October, the bicentennial day itself. The concert will take place in Jesus College Chapel and is being organised by the Jesus College Music Society. Festival Director Dr Conor Farrington will introduce the concert. Full programme details to follow.

At 7.30pm on Friday 28th October, pianist Lindesay Dixon will present a special 'Liszt Birthday Recital' at The Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, under the aegis of the Cambridge-Szeged Society's 2011 Programme. The programme will include Liszt's Les Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este, Hungarian Rhapsody No.5, Concert Study 'Un Sospiro', and two transcriptions: Auf dem Wasser zu Singen (Liszt-Schubert) and Isolde's Liebestod (Liszt-Wagner). Lindesay will also perform Granados's Escenas Romanticas. Entrance is free to members of the Cambridge-Szeged Society (http://www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk/), otherwise the tickets are £5 (£2.50 concessions) on the door or in advance. Bookings & enquiries 01223 506064.

On 30th October concert pianist Lucy Parham presents a special programme devoted to Liszt. Entitled 'Odyssey of Love' and taking place in King's College Chapel at 8.30pm, Lucy and narrators Harriet Walters and Henry Goodman will explore various aspects of Liszt's life and work, offering a compelling picture of Liszt in words and music. Tickets £16 (£10 restricted view, £5 students on the door only). Further information available at http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/events/concerts-at-kings/

November:

On the 3rd November, the second Liszt concert hosted by New Europe takes place at 7.30pm at West Road Concert Hall, when Gulsin Onay performs piano works by Liszt (Concert Study No.2, La Leggierezza, and Apres une Lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata) in a programme that also includes works by Haydn and Schubert. Tickets £15 (£10 concessions, £5 students/children). Booking online at www.neweurope.co.uk; tickets can also be purchased on the door.

Another Cambridge-Szeged Society 2011 programme event takes place on Sunday 26th November at 8pm at the Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, when pianist Ervin Nagy presents a programme of Liszt and Bartok, including Liszt's epic piano works Ballade No.2, Funerailles, and Apres une Lecture du Dante. Entrance is £5 for members of the Cambridge-Szeged Society (http://www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk/) and for concessions, otherwise the tickets are £8 on the door or in advance. Bookings & enquiries 01223 506064.

Another highlight of the Festival calendar takes place on 30th November at 12.30pm in the West Road Concert Hall, when celebrated concert pianist and Lisztian Leslie Howard takes to the stage to deliver a lecture-recital on Liszt's stunning piano cycle Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses. This very special and unique Festival event is taking place in conjunction with the Cambridge University Faculty of Music. Free admission; not to be missed!

December:

Festival Director Conor Farrington publishes his essay on 'Liszt at 200' in Pianist magazine. Featuring interviews with celebrated concert pianist Stephen Hough, young virtuoso Clare Hammond, and conductor Benjamin Pope, among others, this essay explores Liszt's standing at the end of his bicentennial year. Available from December onwards.













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