Lunchtime Concert Series from the Great Hall of Imperial College London
Hosted by the Blyth Centre for Music and Visual Arts
Streamed live on 18 March 2021
Matthew Schellhorn piano
Described as a pianist of “searching intelligence and magnificent technique”, British musician Matthew Schellhorn has a distinctive profile displaying consistent artistic integrity and a commitment to bringing new music to a wider audience. A leading performer for over twenty years, Matthew regularly appears at major venues and festivals throughout the UK and has recorded numerous critically acclaimed albums. Following study in Manchester and Cambridge, with teachers including David Hartigan, Maria Curcio, Peter Hill and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Matthew’s debut album of Messiaen chamber music, including the Quatuor pour la fin du Temps – Messiaen: Chamber Works (Signum Classics SIGCD126) – received positive reviews on both sides of the Atlantic and was awarded an AllMusic Classical Editors’ Favourite. Matthew’s latest commercial release on Naxos – Herbert Howells: Piano Music, Vol. 1 – was praised by Gramophone praised as “superbly performed” with “immaculately stylish, raptly concentrated and memorably tender advocacy’. Spending five weeks in the Official Classical Charts (entering at No. 4), it received a Presto Classical Editors’ Choice. Matthew’s performances of the music of Olivier Messiaen have been met with superlative critical approval and he has been a regular guest soloist in performances of Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine, Turangalîla-Symphonie, Réveil des Oiseaux and Oiseaux Exotiques with orchestras including the London Mozart Players.
PROGRAMME
John McCabe (1939–2015) Landscape (1978) WORLD PREMIERE
Herbert Howells (1892–1983)
Romance (1908) WORLD PREMIERE
Marco Galvani (b. 1994)
Before Sunrise (2020) WORLD PREMIERE
Commissioned by Matthew Schellhorn
Herbert Howells
Legend (1909) WORLD PREMIERE
Once Upon A Time (1949)
I. A Lonely Princess
II. Shepherd Boy
III. An Angry King
IV. The Dark Forest
V. Good-Fairy
VI. And they lived happy ever after
Comme le cerf soupire… (1963) WORLD PREMIERE
Linda Buckley (b. 1979) serein (2014)
Commissioned by Matthew Schellhorn
Live Notes is presented by Matthew Schellhorn (Freelance Pianist)
https://www.smarturl.it/howellspiano1
https://www.matthewschellhorn.com
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http://www.imperial.ac.uk/music-and-arts/music/lunchtime-concerts/
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