Music in Peebles Online Concert Archive

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Learmont Drysdale
Online Concert: Learmont Drysdale and his Music Rediscovered
Recorded 4 September 2022
Venue:
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles

THE FESTIVAL LECTURE-RECITAL 2022

Jointly presented by Music in Peebles and The Tweeddale Society as part of Creative Peebles Festival

A talk by Robert England on the life of Learmont Drysdale will be followed by a concert of his music,including chamber works, pieces for solo piano and song settings, performed by Gina McCormack and students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Songs:  A selection of songs and song settings, with piano accompaniment, with particular emphasis on texts by Borders writers, including Walter Scott, Robert Chambers, James Hogg (‘The Ettrick Shepherd’) and Lady Grizel Baillie (of Mellerstain).

Solo piano:  Sonatina and ‘White Heather’ (Polka de Salon)

Violin and piano:  Reverie and Ballade

Piano Trio:  Trio in F for piano, violin and cello

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Music in Peebles is grateful to Scottish Borders Council for financial support given to this event through a grant from the Council’s Neighbourhood Support Fund.

Online Concert: Marcus Barcham Stevens (violin) & Christina Lawrie (piano)
Recorded 7 August 2021
Venue:
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles

Marcus Barcham Stevens and Christina Lawrie perform the second of two concerts in our 2021 Midsummer Music mini-series. Recorded in front of a live, socially-distanced audience in the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles on 7th August 2021.

Programme:

Kreisler | Praeludium and Allegro
Bach | Air on a G string
Chopin | Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op.47
Louise Farrenc | Violin Sonata No.2 in A major, Op.39
Scottish folk set:
    Duncan Ban MacIntyre | Mairi Bhan Og
    Melvin Cannell | Strathspey: ‘Magic Circle’
    Melvin Cannell | Tweeddale Tango
    Burns/Urbino | My love is like a red, red rose
    Nathaniel Gow | Largo’s Fairy Dance
    James Scott Skinner | De’il Amang the Tailors
    Trad. | Muileann dubh (The Black Mill)
ENCORES:
    Brahms | Hungarian Dance No.2 in D minor
    Jenkyns | The Crocodile

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Online Concert: Gina McCormack (violin) & Nigel Clayton (piano)
Recorded 4 July 2021
Venue:
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles

Gina McCormack, internationally acclaimed violinist and Patron of Music in Peebles, introduces the first concert to be performed at the Eastgate following Covid-19 lockdown. She is then joined by pianist Nigel Clayton to perform the first of two concerts in our 2021 Midsummer Music mini-series.

Programme:

Leclair | Sonata in D, Op 9 no. 3

Amy Beach | Romance for Violin and Piano, Op.23

Prokofiev | Five Melodies, Op 35b

Fauré | Sonata in A, Op 13

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Online Concert: Kowalski-Reyes Duo
Recorded December 2020
Venue:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow

As the Kowalski-Reyes Duo, Madelyn Kowalski (cello) and Maurizio Arroyo Reyes (piano) were due to play a live recital for Music in Peebles in the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles, on Sunday 10 January 2021. Unfortunately, like so much live music at that time, the performance had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, they recorded this recital for us, containing two of the works scheduled for their original live concert.

This film was recorded for Music in Peebles in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, in December 2020.

Programme:

Debussy | Cello Sonata in D minor

Schubert | Sonata for Cello & Piano in A minor (“Arpeggione Sonata”), D.821

Poulenc | Cello Sonata

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