13, 18 and 20 September at 3.00pm
The Chamber Music of Jean Sibelius
Although the Sibelius symphonies have long enjoyed a central position in British concert life, Sibelius's chamber music and songs are less well known. Over three afternoons, participants will focus on Sibelius's piano music and songs with contributions from visiting Finnish musicologists and performers, while also considering the fascinating reception history of Sibelius's music in Britain.
Hosted by composer Julian Philips.
Tickets: £50 for all three sessions
Call the Wigmore Hall Box Office on 020 7935 2141 for tickets
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Folke Gräsbeck, piano lecture-recital at a private London residence |
20 September at 1.00pm
Jean Sibelius: 221 piano pieces,
development of style and motifs
"Did the scent of water-lilies create the famous Sibelian sixth chord?"
Folke Gräsbeck will show how some of the main features of Sibelius' mature stylistic periods are pre-shadowed in his youthful works for piano. The main collection of 118 original piano pieces are going to be discussed in relation to around 40 (mostly) unpublished young pieces for piano, 14 later original piano pieces without opus numbers, and 49 original transcriptions.
Call the UK Sibelius Society on 020 8715 7659 to reserve your place
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'The Profound Logic' - Inner Circle Seminar |
Tue, 30 November
Alessandra Comini,
Anthony Stadlen and Aantti Vihinen conduct an Inner Circle
Seminar "THE PROFOUND
LOGIC", SYMPHONY AND
PSYCHOTHERAPY, SIBELIUS AND MAHLER:
HELSINKI 1907
Sibelius said they had
discussed the great questions of music with "life and death" intensity.
Sibelius said that he had praised the symphony for "the profound logic
that creates an inner connection between all the motives", but that
Mahler had said: "No! The symphony must be like the world. It must
embrace everything. The link between the revolution in music in the
first decade of the twentieth century and psychoanalysis is well known.
Mahler consulted Freud in 1910, and Freud said he had never met anyone
who understood psychoanalysis so quickly. Sibelius was also well
informed on these developments, and called his fourth a "psychological"
symphony.
Are
Sibelius's and Mahler's notions of symphony truly contradictory? Is
authentic psychotherapy a kind of symphony, that reveals both a
person's being-in-the-world and the profound logic that connects all
its motives?
Cost: students £88, others £110 for seminars IN
ADVANCE; some bursaries; no refunds unless seminar
cancelled.
Venue: Room F, Acland Building, Regent's College, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London NW1
Apply to: Anthony Stadlen,
"Oakleigh", 2A Alexandra
Avenue,
London
N22
7XE
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8888 6857 Email:
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