Organization

Admin

Hastings Early Music Festival

Instrumentalist

Jane Gordon

Violin

Victoria Simonsen

Cello

Jan Karl Rautio

Piano

Singer

Anna Dennis

Soloist

Orchestra

Rautio Piano Trio

Soprano

Music & Climate Science

Hastings

United Kingdom

Kino-Teatr

Music & Climate Science: Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op.70 No.2 Beethoven (+1 More)

Public

Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op.70 No.2

Seven Romances on Poems Op. 127

Simon Samuel

Approved

Programme
Professor Tamsin Edwards, renowned climate scientist and award-winning science communicator opens the festival’s final event. Tying in with the festival’s ‘nature in music’ theme, we look back to Beethoven’s landscape pre industrial revolution and consider what has happened since.

Internationally-acclaimed opera singer, soprano Anna Dennis joins the Rautio Piano Trio for a performance of Shostakovich’s Seven Romances. A deeply moving and powerful masterpiece, it was composed in the last years of the prolific composer’s life. A song cycle innovative in form and structure, the work is a homage to art, friendship and nature. The composer dedicated it to soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, Rostropovich’s wife, both of whom were close friends of Shostakovich.

Beethoven’s Op.70/2 piano trio opens with a gentle, intimate tone, remarkably inward and reflective. The overall character becomes lively and rounds off this year’s festival with a suitably jubilant and uplifting finale.

English

Music & Climate Science by Beethoven, Blok, Ó (2023/2023), Kino-Teatr, Hastings, United Kingdom

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Cast & Crew )

Caitheadh

Ionstraimíocht

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid