Recital - Classic Music In Historic Venues

The Age

Saturday February 3, 2007

CLIVE O'CONNELL

WHAT Classic Music in Historic Venues

WHEN Tomorrow at 6.30pm

WHERE German Lutheran Church, East Melbourne

TICKETS $35/$20, 9527 2851

Under the auspices of the Team of Pianists, this year's six-part series of C&C Rigg Bequest events opens with well-known British scholar, editor and pianist Roy Howat. One of the brightest names in generating a re-appraisal of neglected French music, Howat collaborated with Pierre Boulez on a complete edition of the music of Debussy as well as bringing back to public attention the piano music of Chabrier. Alongside these fields of endeavour, Howat is also a noted performer and authority on piano music by Schubert, Bartok and Chopin. Most of the venues for these concerts are familiar to Bequest recital patrons: the Team's headquarters at Glenfern, the Rippon Lea Ballroom, Labassa and, further out of town, the Poowong Pioneer Chapel and Barwon Park in Winchelsea. Tomorrow afternoon in the close acoustic of the German church opposite St Patrick's Cathedral, Howat is presenting a program that features his various fields of expertise. As well as Debussy's three-part musical travelogue, Estampes, he will perform one of Ravel's Miroirs, individual pieces by Schubert and Schumann, two of Chabrier's Pieces pittoresques and three works each from those keystone composers for the piano, Faure and Chopin. -- CLIVE O'CONNELL

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