Ronald Stevenson Memorial Recital

The Stoller Hall, Manchester, Great Britain

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Important Info

Festival: Chetham`s at 50

Type: Classical Concert

City: Manchester, Great Britain

Starts at: 17:00

Duration:

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Festival

Chetham`s at 50

From January to December 2019, we’ll be celebrating Chetham’s – its people, its stories, and its next fifty years.

Programme

Eugène Ysaÿe: Piano Sonata No. 2 (Eugene Ysaÿe)

Overview

The Ronald Stevenson Recital was established in 2015 with funds generously donated by the Stevenson society. This year we welcome pupils from Chetham’s School of Music to perform a varied selection of Ronald’s piano music.

With his trim goatee beard, theatrical coat and broad-brimmed fedora-style hat, Stevenson came as close as he could (though never perhaps quite close enough) to being a sort of Busoni-like figure himself, or at least the very model of a romantic composer of the Busoni period. In his thirties, he was capable of attracting anyone’s attention as he strolled around Edinburgh, holding forth to whoever was with him about Bernard van Dieren, Peter Warlock, the Peebles-born Cecil Gray and other sacred monsters of the early 20th century with whose music he seemed obsessed. As a pupil of the Russian pianist Iso Elinson (who was a pupil of Felix Blumenfeld, who was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov) he possessed a keyboard virtuosity more than sufficient to make him an imposing public performer, although he held back from ever becoming a full-time pianist.

PROGRAMME

A Ghanaian Folk-Song Suite (Song of valour, Consolation, Leopard)
Barra Flyting Toccata
Three Scottish Ballads
Three Scots Fairy tales
A Chinese Folk song Suite
A Carlyle Suite

Venue Info

The Stoller Hall - Manchester
Hunts Bank

The Stoller Hall is situated in Chetham’s new School building, which opened in 2012. A void was deliberately left in the shell of the building for a planned concert hall, with the assumption that years of fundraising still lay ahead before that could become a reality.

The Stoller Hall boasts many innovative features, from the ability to separate public and performance areas from the day-to-day operations of the school to an adaptable extending stage that creates space for a full symphony orchestra in rehearsal or recording.

The Hall’s stunning visual design meant that it was named one of the 49 best new buildings in the UK by RIBA in 2017.

Important Info

Festival: Chetham`s at 50

Type: Classical Concert

City: Manchester, Great Britain

Starts at: 17:00

Duration:

Inside the Orchestra: Petrushka

The Stoller Hall - Manchester

12 Oct 2019, Sat, 2:30 PM

Murray McLachlan

The Stoller Hall - Manchester