Author: leonora

Very well done to Chris who has just passed his ABRSM grade 5 piano exam with Merit.

“Pianist needed to play background Christmas related music for 30 mins approx 6.30pm-7.00pm on Friday 8th December at Clifton College Christmas Carol Concert. This will be as people are arriving in the chapel area”

Digital piano will be provided.

If you’d like to help contact Leigh Bazan on 07980 620788.

Link to full event

Penny Brohn UK Christmas Carol Concert 2023

Our annual ‘Plan and Play’ meeting will be held on Saturday 20th January at 15.00hrs at Jan’s house in Hengrove. – Thank you Jan.

Nathaniel Mander -November Concerts Nathaniel has just returned from Tetbury for the inaugural recital of his newly commissioned spinet after the Goujon 1753 original. Although Andrew Garlick has got it well underway there is still work to do to finish it including its lavish stand with 6 cabriole legs and landscape lid painting. If anyone is interested in contributing to the spinet fund to sponsor the instrument’s completion, do get in touch with Nathaniel. November ConcertsSaturday 4th November, 7pm 33 Hampstead Lane, N6 4RTNathaniel Mander – Baroque Spinet 4th will see the first London ‘outing’ of the new spinet, made by master instrument maker, Andrew Garlick and modelled on a spinet built by the supreme craftsman Jean-Claude Goujon around 1753 which now lives in the Musée Instrumental in Paris. Nathaniel will perform a very personal programme of keyboard works ideally suited to the domestic intimacy of the spinet and its exquisite sound world. The concert will be followed by an early 18th century supper which might well have been enjoyed by any of our composers – or indeed by M. Goujon the spinet maker! Only a very few tickets remaining so snap them up quickly! TICKETS Saturday 11th November, 7pm Restoration House, 17-19 Crow Lane, Rochester, ME1 1RFNathaniel Mander – Square Piano RecitalNathaniel continues his artistic residency at Restoration House following his successful harpsichord recital last month. This month he returns to give a late 18th century piano recital on the highly ornate and characterful 1794 square piano by Longman and Broderip. Repertoire to include music by Mozart, Haydn, Cramer and Beethoven. TICKETS Saturday 18th November, 7pm The Foundling Museum, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1AZThe Gilded Carriage – Violin and Harpsichord recitalNathaniel Mander – Harpsichord, Sijie Chen – Baroque ViolinTravel through the musical centres of early 18th century Europe, in this recital of sublime sonatas for violin and harpsichord. We begin in Rome on 1st January 1700 with Corelli, and visit Handel, de La Guerre and Bach in London, Paris and Leipzig.Nathaniel makes his debut for Vermeer Chamber Concerts which is a recently launched chamber music series in London formed by violinist Sijie Chen. TICKETS Saturday 25th November, 7.30pm Tetbury Good Shed, The Old Station Yard, Cirencester Road, Tetbury, GL8 8EYNathaniel Mander – Bach – The Goldberg Variations‘Nathaniel will be performing one of J.S. Bach’s most enduring masterpieces, The Goldberg Variations, BMV988, having recently made an exquisite recording of the work on the Chronos label. This promises to be a very special and magical evening ’TICKETS Nathaniel’s digital sheet music downloads of his own performance arrangements of Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba and Sarabande in D minor.Sheet MusicNathaniel Mander, Camden, London, U.KPowered by SquarespaceUnsubscribe

 

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Please contact Leonora if you are interested. Thank you.

Bristol Piano Club meeting Oct 15^th 2023.

This was a thoroughly enjoyable meeting which was very kindly hosted by Kay and we give our thanks to her.

We heard a wide variety of piano music, including not only solo pieces but duets and a piece for two pianos. Peter played a very lively version of Nut Rocker which nearly had us all up dancing!

It was an afternoon of good music, friendship and food and we thank everyone for their culinary and musical contributions.

duets, two

Steve                             Nocturnes Op. 9 Nos. 1&2     Chopin

Mark                              Preludes Op.11 Nos 2, 6, 4, 5     Scriabin

Graham and Jean      Canonic Study No 2   Schumann/Debussy

Peter                              Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor (Book 1 WTC)  JS Bach      Nut Rocker                                                 Kim Fowley

Ret                 D.V. 568 Op Allegro moderato, Andante molto Schubert

Simon H                              Sicilliano      JS Bach

                                              Berceuse    F Bridge

 Leonora and Kay                Liebesfreud – Love’s Joy  F Kreisler –   arr. by D.Agay

Ann                                         Sonata K208                                                  Scarlatti

                                                Piano Sonata HobXV1: no 23 Adagio         Haydn

The Piano Section is on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd March 2024.

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Dear All,

We’re wanting to give you advanced information about the Bristol Piano Club Meeting on Saturday 25/11 at our house because it is a meeting with a theme!  You might appreciate some extra time to select (and prepare) the music, if you choose to play a piece in keeping with the theme. 

The theme is FRANCE and there  are various ways you might choose to Vive la France:
a) Play French music
b) Wear French clothes  e.g. clothes  could reflect the tricolour such as a blue top, white trousers and red socks or else wear a striped top
c) Bring French food

People are welcome to enjoy the theme to whatever extent they wish. There is absolutely NO PRESSURE  to do any of the suggestions above, but you can enjoy embracing the atmosphere and being entertained by people who do it wholly or partially!

Feel free to  contact us, via Leonora, if you have any queries.

With best wishes,
Kirsty and David Clarke.

Please note that booking opens for the November meeting on Monday 16th October. – Leonora.

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Cheryl has sent a message to say that anyone who knows her personally is welcome to send her a Face Book friend request as she would be delighted to share the journey with members of BPC.

Enjoy your adventures Cheryl and Bryan!