CLASSICAL RECITAL 1
Tuesday 22nd November
St. Mary of Charity Church
8pm

Performance by world renowned Classical Saw player Henry Dagg

Henry Dagg is an artist, making sound sculptures
that have captured the minds of people and
artists around the world.

In this capacity he has collaborated with Bjork,
Chris Wood and many others and is Prince Charles'
preferred cat squeezer.

He is also one of the world’s leading exponents of
classical saw and presents a program of this,
accompanied by Ben Saul on the piano

CLASSICAL RECITAL 2
Thursday 24th November
St. Mary of Charity Church
8pm

Prach Boondiskulchok performs

Franz Joseph Haydn - Piano Sonata in G Major H. XVI/40
György Ligeti - Musica Ricercata
Camden Reeves - Notturno dalle fiamme dell'inferno
(Praeludium & Ricercare Chromatica)
Béla Bártok - Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs Op. 20
Robert Schumann - Fantasie op. 17

The relatively unknown Haydn Sonata is a miniature delight
of two extremely inventive movements, followed by one of Ligeti's masterworks for the piano.  The Musica Ricercarta, written in 1953,
is a series of eleven short pieces, starting with the first piece using
only two notes, then the next pieces progressively expanded the
pitch collection until the last piece finally includes all twelve notes
of the keyboard.

Young Brtitish Composer Camden Reeves wrote Notturno dalle
fiamme dell'inferno in 2007 exploring the piano writing in new
ways through the old form of a Prelude and Ricercare.
The Notturno dalle fiamme dell'inferno is inscribed with an
excerpt from Milton's Paradise Lost:

A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round
As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
Serv'd onely to discover sights of woe

Béla Bártok, one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology turned away
from the Vienna-Centric tradition of the 19th Century and found his creative voice through the Hungarian songs that he travelled around
to collect. These Improvisations are fantastical transformations of
the simple peasant melodies to Bártok's ever so inventive and
original piano writing.  

The evening concludes with one of the greatest works on the
piano repertoire, the Fantasie by Schumann, inspired equally
by his hero Beethoven and his beloved Clara Wieck.

PROFILE
Prach is becoming increasingly in demand as a versatile musician
who is distinctive in both chamber and solo music. His piano trio, Lakeside Trio, recently won the Ivan Sutton Award, and the Park Lane Group Young Musician Series. His busy performing schedule has brought him to many prestigious venues like the Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, Royal Festival Hall, St John's Smith Square, Purcell Room, Schoenberg Centre – Vienna, Thailand Cultural Centre – Bangkok, and Dixon Hall – New Orleans.

Equally at home in the languages from the early Baroque to the most contemporary repertoire, Prach takes pride in presenting a varied programme, which are always artistically united and curated to present new perspectives to the listeners.

Besides being a successful performer in traditional classical settings, Prach is a propagator of more innovative concert experiences. He believes there is an urgent need to connect great music of the past to a new audience in a new way, as the twentieth century model of the impersonal semi-divine artist on stage is becoming less palatable.