Viv McLean’s Amersham piano highlight

Liz Nicholls

Amersham Concert Club

Amersham Concert Club invite you to enjoy a piano recital with one of their most popular star pianists, Viv McLean, on Saturday 22nd February at Amersham Free Church

Viv McLean will make a welcome return to play for Amersham music-lovers this month, with a programme taking the audience on a whirlwind trip from the late Baroque world of Scarlatti to the early Romantic music of Beethoven. 

The concert opens with four of Scarlatti’s many sonatas written for the harpsicord and early piano, including Brahm’s intriguing Variations and Fugue on a Theme.    

The second half of the concert will start with Mozart’s popular C Major Sonata, followed by Beethoven’s mighty and tempestuous Appassionata Sonata

Viv won first prize at the Maria Canals piano competition in Barcelona, and since then has performed in all the major venues in the UK as well as throughout Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA. Viv’s concerto work includes appearances with the RPO, Philharmonia Orchestra, LPO, Halle Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva, Orchestra of the Swan, Orchestra of St John’s, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Concert Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. 

In recent years, Viv has played for the club as a soloist playing Beethoven, Chopin and Gershwin, with cellist Anna Neary, and with Shiry Rashovsky and Jessica Duchen in a programme of words and music celebrating Vaughan Williams. Versatile and engaging, his performances never fail to delight. 

Tickets are £22pp and Amersham Concert Club is a non-profit group. Visit Amersham Concert Club home

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Liz Nicholls

Amersham Concert Club

Amersham Concert Club’s highlights at Amersham Free Church include Ensemble Renard on 26th October & the Meraki Duo on 30th November, Jenny Faulkner tells us…

Ensemble Renard invite music-lovers to hear music that’s both familiar and foreign to them at their concerts, and this is no exception!

On Saturday, 26th October, they’ll bring you A Breeze Through the 20th Century, including the festive music of Valerie Coleman’s Umoja to the hazy rhapsody of Samuel Barber’s Summer Music and Amy Beach’s Pastorale. Ensemble Renard who are supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, will also perform György Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles. All the music is for wind instruments (flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, french horn) and the music, some of the finest written in the 20th century for these instruments is often ethereal and hauntingly beautiful.

Our November concert is entitled Songs of Longing: Nature, People and Place. The Meraki Duo (flute and guitar) have put together a very thoughtful programme of music that may not be familiar to many people but is filled with ‘songs’ from all corners of the world that share common human themes of nostalgia, melancholy or ephemerality in connection to nature, people and places.


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