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For
details of availability for any of these recitals and of fees please
enquire to
katharine@katharinedurran.org.uk
or telephone 01683 220742
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Recitals
for ‘Cello & Piano
with
Sebastian Comberti
Music
by Boccherini, Beethoven, Bloch and Brahms
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The
Romantic French Horn
with
Stephen Stirling
Classic
works by Beethoven, Schumann, Saint-Saens, Poulenc and Dukas
are
complemented by piano miniatures from the 19th and
early 20th centuries.
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Recitals for Violin and Piano
with
Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne including
the complete sonatas for Violin and Piano by Beethoven
also Trio
Recitals for Violin, Horn and Piano with
David Pyatt 
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KDKDK
with Kirsteen
Davidson Kelly
Music
for Two Pianos
(uprights or grands)
Holst's
The Planets
&
Stravinsky's
RIte of Spring
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Our
programme for 2008-09 focuses on two towering masterpieces from
the
second decade of the 20th century: Holst’s Planets
and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
The composers’
own arrangements cast alternative lights on these seminal and
evergreen works, offering audiences the chance to experience live
their
flamboyant and ground-breaking sound worlds.
One
hundred years ago
Europe
was on the brink of the Great War: decadence,
exoticism,
Expressionism and the volatile interaction between dance,
painting, psychoanalysis
and music meant that the Western
orchestral sound world was rapidly changing for ever.
The
maelstrom created by the clash of late-flowering Romanticism with
the intrepid
Avant-Garde produced these extrovert, awe-inspiring
and yet highly contrasting
pillars of the repertoire within three
years of each other.
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Solo
Piano Recitals
Programmes can include Bach’s Goldberg Variations or Toccatas,
and music by Chopin, Fauré, Scarlatti, Bartók and
Beethoven.
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Music
for violin & piano
with
Madeleine
Mitchell
The
Sonatas of Beethoven and Richard Strauss
and shorter works by Elgar, Mozart, Dvorak,
Bridge and Janacek
Our
recent recital in Glasgow was described in The Herald as:
“a
staggering display of virtuosity and unparalleled
musicianship
in a packed programme …
a tour de force of a recital”
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Recitals for 'Cello and Piano
with
Veronica Henderson
Programmes
include:
Sonatas
in F
Bach and the Romantics
A French
Fantasy
Russian Giants
Veronica
and I have played together
since childhood in Edinburgh. We both read Music at St
Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where we were holders of
Instrumentalists’ Awards. We were reunited last year in
Cambridge to give a highly successful concert in the Summer Music
Festival, and have given recitals this year for Strathclyde
University and Moffat Music Society.
“wondrously
sonorous tones …..they caught the playful energy of the Strauss
piece with perfect ease” Local Secrets
“an
attention-gripping recital ….. fascinating insight …
the
instrumental interplay was a delight”
Moffat Music Society
“Familiarity breeds concord”
Scotsman
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Classics
for Viola & Piano
with
Carolyn Sparey
Music
by J.S.Bach (including the 3 Gamba Sonatas), Beethoven,
Schubert,
Brahms and Fauré.
Carolyn
was the founding principal viola of the Scottish Chamber
orchestra,
and was for many years principal viola of the
BBC
Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
We moved
coincidentally to the Scottish Southern Uplands town of Moffat in
2002
and have been giving recitals together ever since.
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J.S.Bach
and Romantic France
with
Anne Evans
Anne
and I have devised this programme to present four of Bach’s
sublime
flute and clavier sonatas as frames for the exquisite music
of
French masters Debussy, Saint-Saens, Poulenc and Messiaen.
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The
great Song Cycles
Working
with both established lieder singers and prizewinning
artists of the new generation, I can offer programmes
incorporating any of the great song cycles of Schubert,
Schumann, Fauré and Mahler.
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Song
Recitals
with
Lorna Anderson
Lorna
and I have been friends and colleagues since student days.
We can plan our programmes to suit your occasion.
Particular
favourites include Scotland in Lieder (Schubert and Schumann)
and Nature
and The Human Condition (all Schubert).
Our recent recital at Edinburgh’s Queen’s
Hall
also featured songs by Purcell, Fauré, Poulenc and Britten:
“an
eclectic mix of songs and lieder…the words were a treasure trove
of fascinating texts,
many focusing on historical Scottish figures…beautifully
controlled and articulated voice…words and music blending
perfectly”
The Scotsman
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Song Recitals
with Sandra
Lissenden
including
Music
from The Nursery
by
Fraser-Simson, Edward German, Thea Musgrave,
Mahler and Mussorgsky
and
Schumann's
Woman's Life and Love
in a modern English translation by
Hilary Lissenden
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New
French Song
with
Alison Smart
With
this innovative and visionary project, a whole new exciting repertoire of song has been created for the
21st century.
One of the songs, Sainte by Tarik O'Regan, won the
Vocal Category at the 2005
British Composer Awards, broadcast live on BBC Radio3.
Our recital programmes
will focus on this dazzling panorama of new work commissioned from 20 leading British composers:
Bingham, Burrell, Casken, Chilcott, Cowie, Crane, Finnissy,
Fitkin,
Gorb, Harrison, Jackson,
Keeling, LeFanu, McGuire, O’Regan,
Redgate, Roe, Skempton, Todd and
Wood.
These will be interwoven with carefully chosen groups of songs by
Schubert, Fauré
and Poulenc to create
the perfect festive soirée.
Our
work lends itself ideally to workshops and masterclasses in
schools and colleges. We have a wide experience of working with
students of voice, piano and composition and can often involve one
or more of our composers in these projects.
Click here for further
details of New French Song
“Organically
alive and witty…imaginatively integrated…a powerful sense of
atmosphere…excellent musician
with a strong mutual
rapport”
The
Independent on Sunday
“Alison Smart ... elicited a really impressive range of colours
and contours,
comfortably handling the stylistic changes between songs”
“With a remarkable sensitivity and wide palette of colours,
Katharine Durran’s playing was a musical lesson in Art
history”
Musical Opinion
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