Limelight Magazine

Concert 1: BRAHMS - Three Intermezzi, Op. 117

Concert 2: BACH - Double Keyboard Concerto in C minor BWV 1060. arranged for accordion, piano and string quintet
 

Concert 3:
LIGETI - Selected pieces for four hands at piano

SCHUBERT - Fantasie in F minor for four hands at one piano, D. 940
 

Concert 4 :BEETHOVEN - Piano Quartet in Eb Op.16 

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Concert5: DVORAK - Piano Quintet in A major

Concert 6:
YSAYE - Poème élégiaque for Violine and Klavier op.12
DEAN, Paul - Sonatina for violin and piano (UK premiere)
MENDELSSOHN - Songs without Words No 1 op.19 (arranged for Violin & Piano by Hermann)
MENDELSSOHN - Sonata for Violin and Piano in F 
 

Concert 7: Festival Finale

Oxford May Music is a music, science and arts festival that celebrates culture and human achievements in a truly unique way.  The festival's ethos of combining the very cutting edge of science alongside world-class concerts has for the last 15 years attracted visitors from all over the world. They come for the wide ranging and fascinating programmes put together by artistic director and award winning violinist Jack Liebeck and renowned particle physicist Prof. Brian Foster.
 

ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH, OXFORD UK

GLINKA - Ruslan & Ludmilla Overture
SHOSTAKOVICH - Piano Concerto no.2 in F Op.102

TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 4
 

Kristian returns with Corpus Medicorum after his performance of Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 in 2023 to play Shostakovich's charming second piano concerto under the baton of Fabian Russell. The piece was written as a birthday present for Shostakovich’s nineteen-year-old son Maxim – himself an accomplished pianist. The middle movement is a heart-wrenching Andante, and on either side are two vivacious movements, both full of style and an overwhelming sense of fun. Shostakovich apparently hid all sorts of family references within the music – jokes that only he and Maxim would truly understand. 

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ELIZABETH MURDOCH HALL, MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE

Margaret SUTHERLAND - Sonata for Violin & Piano (1925)
BEETHOVEN - Sonata for Piano & Violin Op.47 in A (Kreutzer)

Violinist Sophie Rowell is one of Australia's leading musicians. She is the artistic director of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, and previously has been co-concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony and first violinist in the Australian String Quartet, and is newly appointed at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music as Associate Professor in Violin. Sophie and Kristian have been playing together for many years, having grown up together in their home town of Adelaide. They play a program of epic proportions – starting with Australian Margaret Sutherland’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, written almost 100 years ago in 1925. This is followed by the great Beethoven Kreuzter Sonata for Piano and Violin, one of the highlights of the sonata repertoire; a beautiful, passionate and mesmerising journey.

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HANSON DYER HALL, MELBOURNE CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC