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News:
Recently launched contemporary music CD "Secret Doors"
with The Daniel Hewson Project featuring pieces for various string and piano chamber combinations is now available for purchase
from Amazon, or to download from itunes.
Listen to samples from "Secret Doors" for cello and piano, recorded live at Leighton House, 23rd November 2007. Helen
Neilson, cello; Daniel Hewson, piano/composer. This piece was written for Helen by the composer. The full album includes
string quartet, piano quintet and solo piano pieces.
Secret Doors 2nd mvt
Secret Doors 3rd mvt
Daniel Hewson "Secret Doors" available on Amazon
Forthcoming
recitals:
Wednesday
24th September with John Paul Gandy, piano, 1pm at St Olaves Church, near Tower Hill
Ronald Stevenson
"Recitative and Air on DSCH"; Elliot Carter Sonata; Brahms Sonata in F major.
Thursday 25th September with Daniel Hewson, piano, 1pm at St Johns
Church, Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill: "Secret Doors" for cello and piano; Bach-Busoni Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue; and
a mixed programme of Daniel's compositions.
Friday 3rd October with John Paul Gandy, piano 7.30pm at St Johns Kirk, Perth £10/£7 Ronald
Stevenson Recitative and Air on DSCH; Bach Suite no. 2 in D minor; Brahms Sonata in F major, op.99; Bach-Busoni
"Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue"; Elliot Carter Sonata; Chopin Introduction and Polonaise Brilliante for
piano and cello, op.3
Sunday 12th October 7.30pm, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, £25. Performance with the New
Voices Collective - contemporary song with cello and string quartet
Friday 17th October with the Crystal Palace String Quartet, 1pm
at Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey. Programme to include Vaughan Williams Second String Quartet in A minor and pieces
by Elgar.
Thursday
6th November Soloists of St Pauls Sinfonia, St Pauls Church, Deptford, 7.30pm, £8/£6 John Woolrich: Contredanse Shostakovich:
Prelude and Scherzo Mendelssohn: Octet, op.20
For more
details see the orchestra website: http://www.stpaulssinfonia.com/
Friday 28th November with John Paul Gandy, piano, 7.30pm at St
Johns Church, Lansdowne Crescent, off Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, London, £10/£7
"Play,
Architecture, Emotion"
Ronald Stevenson Recitative and Air on DSCH; Bach-Busoni
"Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue"; Brahms Sonata in F major, op.99;
Prelude
from Bach Suite no. 2 in D minor; Elliot Carter Sonata; Chopin Introduction and Polonaise Brilliante
for piano and cello, op.3
Read more about this programme...
Recent
DVD reviews:
Helen was recently invited to review a series of DVDs of legendary teacher
and cellist, William Pleeth, probably best known as teacher of the legendary Jacqueline du Pre, giving masterclasses to advanced
students at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies. These can be viewed on the Shar Publications website,
from where the DVDs can be purchased directly.
Shar Publications website
Sound samples from live recital
performances:
Helen
regularly gives chamber music recitals covering a wide range of musical styles, ranging from early baroque repertoire through
to cutting edge contemporary music. Listen to some sound clips recorded live in recent recitals:
Martinu Variations on a Slovakian Theme, Var 5 Helen Neilson, cello
and John Paul Gandy, piano
Martinu Slovak Variations clip
Chopin Polonaise Brilliante Helen Neilson, cello; John Paul Gandy, Piano
Chopin Polonaise Brilliante clip
Ligeti Solo Sonata: Dialogo; Capriccio
Ligeti Solo Sonata First mvt clip
Ligeti Solo Sonata, Second Movement
With thanks to Richard Carruthers at music-chamber.com for all recordings.
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