Music for a Summer Evening

Music for a Summer Evening

Luba Tunnicliffe viola

Hannah Watson piano
Festival Début Concerts

9:00pm Tuesday, August 8 2017

Hawkshead Parish Church

Retiring Collection Unreserved Seating

Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Rawsthorne Trust

JS Bach Sonata No.2 in D major for viola [da gamba] and keyboard, BWV1028 15’

Rawsthorne Viola Sonata 15½’

Schumann Märchenbilder, Op.113 14½’

Bartók Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs for piano 14¾’

Stravinsky Elegy for solo viola 5’

R Clarke Viola Sonata 23½’

Our annual partnership with this popular Hawkshead summer concert series presents Festival Début artists in this idyllic church on the hill. Both Schumann’s Fairy tale Pictures and Clarke’s Sonata take images from literature as their inspiration: the world of the Brothers Grimm and the poetry of Alfred de Musset.

NB Tickets cannot be booked in advance – just turn up at the door.
Event artists
Luba Tunnicliffe
Luba Tunnicliffe Viola

Luba Tunnicliffe studied with Jacky Woods at Junior RAM, where she won the concerto prize, and with David Takeno and Pavlo Beznosiuk at the Guildhall School of Music, graduating with... read more
Hannah Watson
Hannah Watson Piano

Hannah Watson started her musical studies with Enloc Wu, attending the Royal College of Music Junior Department, and studied Modern Languages at Cambridge before deciding to pursue music full-time. She... read more

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