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Clarinet solo from Verdi's La forza del destino😍 A beautiful clarinet solo from Verdi's La forza del destino, filmed in the magnificent setting of our auditorium.Performing here are clarinettist Tim Orpen with Antonio Pappano on the piano.
Posted by Royal Opera House on Friday, July 31, 2020
Clarinet solo from Verdi La forza del destino – Timothy Orpen and Antonio Pappano
Clarinet solo from Verdi’s La forza del destino, filmed in the magnificent setting of the Royal Opera House, performed by Timothy Orpen and Antonio Pappano.
‘Reawakened’ at no 7. in Official Specialist Classical Chart
We are thrilled to see that Robert Plane’s disc – ‘Reawakened’ – has entered the Official Specialist Classical Chart at no. 7.
They’re all played with a sense of conviction that these are real gems
BBC Radio 3 Record Review, Andrew McGregor
Our thanks to BBC Radio 3 Record Review for featuring Robert Plane‘s latest CD (recorded with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martin Brabbins) ‘Reawakened’ on Saturday 25th July.
Starting this evening! Corbridge Chamber Music Festival via YouTube
Starting this evening at 7 pm, this year’s Corbridge Chamber Music Festival will be taking place online, with a series of concerts being streamed on the festival’s YouTube channel through until Sunday 26th July. Please find the line-up of streams in the list below. The Gould Piano Trio and Robert Plane, Artistic Directors of the festival, are joined by esteemed colleagues to present this virtual incarnation of the annual summer festival.
Robert Plane on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’
Clarinettist Robert Plane appeared on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ on Tuesday afternoon, chatting to Sean Rafferty about a wide range of topics.
Rob appeared on the programme alongside Lucy Gould, violinist of the Gould Piano Trio, with whom Rob has a long-standing collaboration.
During the phone interview Rob and Lucy talked about their ongoing collaboration, upcoming CD releases, the Corbridge Chamber Music Festival, and Rob’s new appointment as Head of Woodwind Performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Russian Musical Weekend: Live music in (or from) Amsterdam
The Russian Musical Weekend will take place at Studio 150 in Amsterdam over the weekend of 25th-26th July.
Tickets are available to attend as part of a socially-distanced audience, and the concerts will also be streamed online via Youtube and Facebook.
Album of the week – Classics Unwrapped BBC Radio Scotland
Jamie MacDougall, presenter of Classics Unwrapped on BBC Radio Scotland, has chosen the Linos Piano Trio’s C. P. E. Bach Complete Piano Trios as Album of the week.
Radio Klassik Stephansdom CD of the Day
The Linos Piano Trio’s recent release – C. P. E. Bach Complete Piano Trios – was selected by Austrian station Radio Klassik Stephansdom as “CD of the Day”. Listeners will have heard Op. 89/1, Op. 89/6 and Op. 89/4.
Louise Thomson and Concerteenies: 24-Hour Soundtrack
Louise Thomson (harp) and Polly Ives, Director of Concerteenies, have teamed up many times in the past to present engaging, interactive activities and music for very young children. Indeed, they are looking forward to presenting Tiddler the Story-Telling Fish (by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler) together at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, as part of the World Harp Congress which is now taking place in 2021.
The Concerteenies team is now releasing a series of 24 short, inspirational, and engaging films represent the ‘typical’ life of a family with young children.
Concert and Live Stream from Cologne this Thursday
The Linos Piano Trio is thrilled to be giving its first concert since March, this Thursday in Cologne, and to be able to mark the release of their CPE Bach CD. The trio will perform to a small, socially distanced audience, and the concert will also be live-streamed. You can watch it here, or on facebook, and their programme will be:
Video coming soon: Ferio Saxophone Quartet collaborates with Corvus Consort to perform Bach
The Ferio Saxophone Quartet’s latest project is a collaboration with vocal ensemble the Corvus Consort (formerly the New Oxford Consort), with a video coming soon, featuring music by J. S. Bach.
The video, recorded and produced during the lockdown, will be premiered as part of The Sixteen‘s Sounds Sublime Festival, which this year takes place online.
Solem Lates: from lockdown
The Solem Quartet is excited to present a concert online at 1pm on Thursday 16th July.
Streamed on Facebook, the concert will take the form of a socially-distanced performance in the atmospheric setting of St Giles Church, Camberwell.
The half-hour programme will focus on themes of time and nature, and feature music written in times of isolation by composers including William Byrd, Bela Bartók, Cassandra Miller, Florence Price and Thomas Adès.
Corbridge Chamber Music Festival: Music from our homes, to yours
This year’s Corbridge Chamber Music Festival will be taking place online, with a series of concerts being streamed on the festival’s YouTube channel from 24th-26th July.
The Gould Piano Trio and Robert Plane, Artistic Directors of the festival, will be joined by a select group of talented performers to present this virtual incarnation of the annual summer festival.
Wiggin Wass Duo to perform in outdoor summer series
Soirées at Breinton have successfully organised hosting their summer concerts outside this year, and Huw Wiggin and Oliver Wass look forward to appearing as part of the series, ‘Summer at Breinton’, next month.
In an enterprising move towards the return of live performances, Summer at Breinton hosted its first live concert of the year on Saturday 4th July, with a socially-distanced audience taking their places in the garden at Breinton (pictured above).
Tickets now on sale for August’s Stiftfestival
Tickets for the upcoming Stiftfestival in the Netherlands go on sale to the general public today, Monday 6th July.
Artistic Director Daniel Rowland and the rest of the festival organisers are thrilled that they are able to run a ‘limited edition’ of their annual festival, with over 20 concerts and a hugely exciting list of artists, despite all of the hurdles!
Linos Piano Trio: Konrad Elias-Trostmann on German radio today
Konrad Elias-Trostmann, violinist of the Linos Piano Trio, will appear this afternoon on German radio programme WDR 3 Tonart.
He will be talking to the presenter about the ensemble and their latest release, of trios by CPE Bach, and music from the disc will be played on air.
Daniel Rowland to release new disc featuring the music of Pēteris Vasks
Daniel Rowland looks forward to releasing a new disc in the autumn, featuring, amongst other landmark works by the composer, Pēteris Vasks’s second violin concerto ‘Lonely Angel’.
Corelli from ‘Revive’ on Sarah Walker’s Radio 3 Sunday Morning programme
Lovely to hear the Ferio Saxophone Quartet’s recording of Corelli’s Concerto Grosso op. 6, no. 8 (3rd movement) played on Sarah Walker’s BBC Radio 3 Sunday Morning programme.
Interview on Penarth Radio
If you missed it at the time, you can ‘listen again’ to Robert Plane chatting to Alice Neary on Penarth Radio about his career, the repertoire he has performed and recorded and also his new appointment as Head of Wind Performance at RWCMD. You can hear Robert from about fourteen minutes into the broadcast.
Stiftfestival 2020 – tickets go on sale soon!
Daniel Rowland and the Stiftfestival management team have just announced that tickets will soon go on sale for their upcoming Limited Edition of the Summerfestival 2020. It will run from 23rd to 29th August, and will take account of the current guidance in the Netherlands in relation to COVID-19: events will have a maximum audience of 100 people, maintaining a 1.5-metre distance at all times. The themes of this edition, based on Beethoven’s life, are Isolation, Revolution, Freedom, Brotherhood, Nature and Love, which the organisers note now feel more important and relevant than ever.
Reawakened – Plane’s latest disc – will be out in July
Having made premiere recordings of exciting discoveries by Bax, Holbrooke and Robin Milford during his career, Robert Plane decided to turn his attention to lost concerto repertoire for his latest project. The resulting CD, ‘Reawakened’, brings back to life three exciting clarinet concertos that had fallen into neglect, in world-premiere recordings. It will be released by Champs Hill Records next month.
Robert Plane talked to Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine about his forthcoming disc
For their spring issue earlier this year, Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine talked to Robert Plane about his latest recording. For those who have not already seen it, and with the very kind permission of CASSGB, we hope you enjoy reading the resulting article which you can find here.
First airing of CPE Bach Piano Trios on Radio 3
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Appoints Robert Plane as New Head of Woodwind Performance
We are thrilled to announce that the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama has appointed Robert Plane as its new Head of Woodwind Performance. Robert, who has been a clarinet tutor at the College for the last twenty years and also Principal Clarinet of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales over the same period, will start his new position in September in parallel with his highly successful career as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist.
