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Topic: Edinburgh Festival 2009 - recital of operatic transcriptions  (Read 6577 times)

Offline ronde_des_sylphes

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Hi all, as there are a few fellow posters from the United Kingdom on here, and in case anyone is interested, I thought I would give advance notice of two concerts I'll be giving as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. The venue is St Mark's artSpace (Fringe venue 125), 7 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2DP. (Map: https://ed.thestage.co.uk/venues/st-marks-artspace )

The programme will be as follows:

My composition: Fantasy on Bellini's La Sonnambula
Bellini-Fumagalli: Casta Diva (Norma)
Verdi-Liszt: Concert Fantasy on Ernani
Bellini-Thalberg: A te, o cara (I Puritani)
Rossini-Thalberg: Fantasy on Moses in Egypt

============= Intermission =================

Verdi-Cziffra: Concert Fantasy on Il Trovatore
Wagner-Brassin: Magic Fire Scene (Die Walkure)
Wagner-Liszt: Isolde's Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
My composition (genre pastiche): Thalbergiana

Concert date and times are Aug 20 and Aug 25, both at 1715. Tickets are £7; concessions are available.

If anyone's interested in coming along, pm me, or post in this thread!
My website - www.andrewwrightpianist.com
Info and samples from my first commercial album - https://youtu.be/IlRtSyPAVNU
My SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/andrew-wright-35

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Aghhh heaven.

Don't like giving yourself an easy time old chap?

Thal
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My composition (genre pastiche): Thalbergiana
Lemme guess, Allegro impetuoso e furioso banjolamentoso. Playing time 0'09"
 ;D

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music. Anyone who thinks otherwise is not worth talking to (Shostakovich)

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Lemme guess, Allegro impetuoso e furioso banjolamentoso. Playing time 0'09"
 ;D

Sadly, no banjo. Reminds me, really must brush up on Gottschalk..



Don't like giving yourself an easy time old chap?

Thal

I think I may be a little tired afterwards ;)
My website - www.andrewwrightpianist.com
Info and samples from my first commercial album - https://youtu.be/IlRtSyPAVNU
My SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/andrew-wright-35
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