Performer: Lionel Handy| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Monday 17-Jun-13 07:30pm |
 Birmingham Conservatoire, Recital HallLionel Handy (cello) and Nigel Clayton(piano) Delius and Ireland: A Celebration |
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| Birmingham Conservatoire, Recital Hall, Paradise Place, Birmingham B3 3HG, United Kingdom Monday 17-Jun-13 07:30pm Lionel Handy (cello) and Nigel Clayton(piano) ‘Delius and Ireland: A Celebration’ is a five-day Festival, one of the biggest the Conservatoire has ever hosted, involving over 60 individuals from the senior and junior Conservatoire, students and Faculty (including those famously associated with this repertoire), as well as orchestras, choirs and guest artists. Fifteen concert programmes will showcase songs, piano pieces, chamber and orchestral works - including performances of the complete solo piano works by John Ireland, the Delius Double and Ireland Piano Concerto – and culminate in a performance of Delius's masterpiece, Seadrift, with the Conservatoire Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Lionel Friend in Birmingham Town Hall on 21st June. This programme also includes the world première of an early work by Benjamin Britten entitled Chaos and Cosmos, which the Conservatoire’s students have been preparing and recording as part of the Britten Thematic Catalogue. Price type: Low cost, half at £10 or less | ||
