Ravel: Sonatine
Beethoven: Quartet in Cm, Op. 18, No. 4
Schumann: Piano
Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44
Doric String Quartet
Hisako Kawamura,
piano
‘how many people are truly capable of playing music with
the richness of expression and the humanity of Hisako Kawamura?’ [Citation
for Suntory Award].
That is quite a question on which to open
ENF 2024 and we are delighted to welcome Kawamura in her ENF debut with
her favoured chamber music partners, the Doric Quartet. Born in Japan and
raised in Germany, she brings a grounding in the European tradition
married to a questing spirit, and her programmes this week combine unusual
rarities with familiar masterpieces.
Please note: This event
includes an interval.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
Margret Köll, baroque triple harp
Stefan Temmingh, recorders
Two
remarkable musicians make a rare UK appearance for an hour of mesmerising
solos and duos in the lovely setting of St Monans Kirk. Köll’s ‘great joy
of playing and technical perfection’ matches the ‘brilliant, spontaneous,
playful’ Temmingh superbly in this varied and colourful programme that
explores five centuries of dance, song, sonatas and miniatures, including
music by Bach and Scarlatti: an enticing tapestry of stories told through
sound.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
St Monans Kirk
Richard Morrison, speaker
Chief culture writer of The Times, Richard
Morrison is better placed than most to look about him and assess how the
musical landscape of Britain is faring in some of the most challenging of
times for the arts in general. We ask him to reflect on how things are
changing for music especially, and where we might find ourselves in 10, 20
or 30 years’ time…
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr
olds.
Crail Church Hall
Beethoven: Sonata in E-flat, Op. 27, No. 1
Boulanger: Vers la vie nouvelle
Akio
Yashiro : Sonate pour piano
Beethoven: Sonata in C#m, Op. 27, No. 2
(Moonlight)
Hisako Kawamura, piano
Beethoven’s Op. 27
sonatas are a wonderful pair of left-field pieces, full of unexpected
twists and unusual ideas – not for nothing did Beethoven label them ‘quasi
una fantasia’ (like a fantasia). One became the most famous of all his
sonatas (though he never called it ‘moonlight’) and in both you can
readily picture him at the piano improvising and experimenting as we know
he did. Between these very special Beethoven pieces, Kawamura offers a
fascinating teacher-pupil pairing in Yashiro and Boulanger. She was
arguably the most influential music teacher of the 20th century (her
students included musicians as different as Gershwin and Glass), while he
was a star student from Tokyo who found his musical voice in Paris.
£5
tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
Haas: Quintet, Op. 10
Janáček: Mládí (Youth)
Janáček:
Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen
Suk: Meditation on an old Czech
hymn (St Wenceslas)
Smetana: Quartet in Em (From my life)
Pavel
Haas Quartet
Belfiato Wind Quintet
Česká Noc (Czech Night)
offers you two of the finest ensembles from the Czech Republic. Musically,
we should perhaps say Moravian, Bohemian and Czechoslovakian Night, as
these lands have a complicated history of occupation and independence, and
the music on offer takes you from their days as part of the Hapsburg
Empire (when Suk’s Meditation was an act of musical rebellion) to the Nazi
occupation when a generation of fine musicians (including Haas) were among
the many murdered. For all its historical complexity, this music is
powerful, distinctive and resilient, and makes for an ebullient, rich and
joyful evening.
Please note: This event includes an interval.
£5
tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Kilrenny Church
Anon: Se io m'accorgo ben mio d'un altro amante
Francesco da
Milano: Fantasia No. 30
Fantasia No. 34 (La Compagna)
John
McLeod : Three Mythical Pieces
Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin
Chaminade:
La Morena (Caprice Espanol), Op. 67
José: Sonata para guitarra
Ian
Watt, guitar
Watt takes us from Renaissance to 20th century Spain
via ancient Greece and Paris. Among many pleasures, Watt includes the
sonata by Antonio José. If his name is less than immediately familiar, it
is because he was only in his early 30s when a Falangist militia seized
and executed him during the Spanish Civil War. Prolific from an early age,
he had already created quite a body of work, most of it inspired by the
traditional music of the areas of Spain in which he lived and worked –
this piece is a melodious delight from start to finish.
£5 tickets
available for 7-17 yr olds.
St Monans Kirk
Shaw: Entr’acte
Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130 (Grosse Fuge)
Ever
on the lookout for exceptional young artists, we are very excited to
welcome Opus 13 to Fife this year. Prize winners at the Banff
International String Quartet Competition 2022, they were awarded the
prestigious Equinor Classical Music Award which goes to musical ‘heroes of
tomorrow’. Previous winners include Leif Ove Andsnes, Truls Mørk and Vilde
Frang. They come for four concerts, opening with one of the titanic
masterpieces of the genre. Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge is a work that inspires
the greatest minds to superlatives: together with the Hammerklavier
sonata (see Saturday 2.30pm) this is Beethoven at his most immense and
astonishing. The quartet pair it with one of the most popular quartets of
recent years, Shaw’s brief but very memorable ‘Entr’acte’.
£5
tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Kilrenny Church
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
In the dramatic setting of the
Zulu Gallery at Scottish Fisheries Museum harpist/composer, Esther Swift
creates an atmospheric evocation of the story of the Zulu fishing fleets,
once ubiquitous in East Scotland.
The Zulu was invented in 1879
(also the year of the Anglo-Zulu War, hence…) and swiftly became the
vessel of choice for fishermen all round Scotland’s coasts. Its dominance
was ended by World War I, and by the development of steam, then diesel
powered boats. Many of these graceful craft were simply left to rot on the
shores – some can still be found.
Esther Swift is creating a
piece bringing together community and professional musicians to evoke the
boats and the communities that depended on them, the storms they weathered
and the lives they led at sea and on land.
£5 tickets available for
7-17 yr olds.
Scottish Fisheries Museum
“…this music is layered with emotion, appreciation for style and tradition
and the freedom of just playing. The performances by both musicians are
stellar, leaving you thinking that this partnership was inevitable and
absolutely necessary.” Folk Radio UK
A dazzling duo of
wonderful Irish and Welsh musicians famed for their virtuosity and musical
freedom, spanning traditional and classical heritage and new musical
vistas. They are inspired by the cultures of their home countries.
Violinist/fiddler Aoife Ní Bhriain is as at home with Bach as she is with
traditional tunes, and harpist Catrin Finch, no stranger to ENF audiences,
has spent her life exploring different traditions and musical worlds.
Their duo has been called ‘almost otherworldly, like much of this set,
which captivates from beginning to end, to the point where you really
don’t want an end to come’ (The Arts Desk).
Please
note: This event includes an interval.
Anstruther Town Hall
Rachmaninov: Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3, Nos 2 & 3
Tchaikovsky:
Quartet in E-flat, Op. 30
Brahms: Piano Quartet in A, Op. 26
Boris
Giltburg, piano
Pavel Haas Quartet
Throughout this ENF we have
concerts inspired by meetings, links or friendships of great composers.
Here Tchaikovsky is the link. Boris Giltburg plays music Tchaikovsky
particularly admired by his protégé Rachmaninov , then joins the Pavel
Hass Quartet in a wonderful piece by a man whose music he simply could not
abide: Brahms. As a critic he did not hold back – ‘[Brahms] is content to
just keep on milling the wind with musical ideas that everyone has long
since grown tired of’. We beg to differ, and the Op. 26 Quartet makes a
magnificent and spirited foil for Tchaikovsky’s own final string quartet,
a dramatic, heroic piece.
Please note: This event includes an
interval.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
Hearing Renaud Garcia Fons play solo is a wonderful revelation: the sheer
range of sound he draws from the instrument is magical enough, but his
soulful, compelling music draws you right in. Ideal for this late evening
performance, solo and unplugged in the intimate space of Anstruther’s
Erskine Hall. It’s a small space but has a full and reverberant acoustic
to suit Fons’ magnificent artistry perfectly.
£5 tickets
available for 7-17 yr olds.
Erskine Hall
Grieg: Quartet in F, EG117
Schubert: Quartet in Dm, D. 810 (Death and
the Maiden)
This year’s programme has many performers playing
the music of their homelands. Opus 13 include both of Grieg’s quartets,
and as Grieg counted Schubert among ‘the noblest natures’ in music, we had
no hesitation in pairing his short second quartet with Schubert’s
tumultuous Death and the Maiden.
£5 tickets available for
7-17 yr olds.
Kilrenny Church
Reicha: Wind Quintet in E-flat, Op. 88, No. 2
Belfiato Wind Quintet
Beethoven:
Sonata in B-flat, Op. 106 (Hammerklavier)
Boris Giltburg, piano
Friends
from boyhood, Reicha and Beethoven make a fascinating pair. They met in
Bonn then Beethoven moved to Vienna and stayed there for the rest of his
life, while Reicha moved around war-torn Europe, eventually settling in
Paris where he became one of the most distinguished teachers and composers
of his time. In this programme we have key works by both men that happen
to be published in the same year, 1818. Beethoven’s heroic sonata is his
longest and most demanding, while the Reicha is one of the finest of his
25 wind quintets.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
A quartet of musicians from around the Mediterranean – Spain, Turkey, France – meet to bring us this mixing of classical and traditional instruments.
Anstruther Town Hall
Grieg: Quartet in Gm, Op. 27
Tchaikovsky: Dumka in Cm, Op. 59
Brahms:
Piano Quartet in Cm, Op. 60
Opus 13
Boris Giltburg, piano
Pavel
Haas Quartet
Once, Tchaikovsky unexpectedly found himself in the
company of Brahms, whom he thought he detested. In fact, he discovered
that he liked the man, even if he couldn’t bear his music. Awkwardly, he
was asked what he thought of Brahms’ new trio but was saved from
embarrassment when the door opened and in came Mr and Mrs Edvard Grieg.
They brought such bonhomie into the room with them that all the musicians
got on like a house on fire. This programme brings them together again,
performed by both of our resident quartets and Boris Giltburg
Please
note: This event includes an interval.
£5 tickets available for
7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
‘Jazz is one the best things you can find in your life, it can always be your
friend’. George Gershwin sure knew how to spin a fine sound bite, but who
could disagree with this one. Julian Bliss Septet fields a top notch
line-up of bass, piano, rhythm, guitar, trumpet, vibes and – of course –
clarinet to celebrate the Gershwin songbook in this their 3rd return visit
to ENF. Expect plenty of laughs and quick-fire repartee in addition to
superb jazz in a free-flowing, high-spirited swinging evening.
Please
note: This event includes an interval.
Anstruther Town Hall
Andrea Tarrodi: Madárdal (Quartet No. 2)
Tiberiu Olah: Sonata for
Clarinet Solo
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581
Here’s a
fresh and zesty start to Sunday: Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet makes a superb
finale to follow some delightful music by a Swedish-Hungarian and
Romanian-Hungarian. Tarrodi’s draws on folk music from both her ‘native’
countries in a sparkling and dancelike quartet; meanwhile, Olah’s short
sonata takes inspiration from the exquisite sculpture of his
fellow-Romanian Brancusi, and is a proper tour-de-force for a musician as
communicative and virtuosic as Julian Bliss.
£5 tickets available
for 7-17 yr olds.
Elie Church
Neil Brand, piano
Silent movie supremo Neil Brand returns to ENF to
provide piano improvisation for an hour of comedy, including some
golfing-related japes.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Earlsferry Town Hall
Improvisation [Maxim Emelyanychev]
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22 in E-flat
K. 482
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A, Op. 92
Maxim Emelyanychev,
piano/conductor
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Scottish Chamber
Orchestra has performed at every single ENF, and no 20th birthday would be
complete without them. We are thrilled that SCO Principal Conductor, Maxim
Emelyanychev will close the 2024 Festival in style; he opens the concert
at the piano, improvising a solo fantasia on the spot before leading
straight into the grandest of Mozart’s piano concertos (very much as
Mozart or Beethoven might have done in their own performances). Then, he
and the orchestra close with the blaze of energy, light and joy that is
Beethoven’s 7th Symphony.
Please note: This event includes an
interval.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Bowhouse
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
If you prefer to make your own way as much as possible, why not take the train to Leuchars, where you can pick up an ENF coach at 1.30pm to take you to Crail for ‘Meetings with Great Composers’ (events 13 & 15) before returning to Leuchars by 9.30pm to take the train of your choice homewards. Total cost for the coach and best tickets for the concerts will be £80.
Leuchars
A coach will leave central Edinburgh (location to be advised) at midday and
arrive in the East Neuk in time for the two ‘Meetings with Great
Composers’ concerts (events 13 & 15) in Crail Church. The coach will
return at approximately 8.30pm, arriving back in central Edinburgh no
later than 10.30pm.
Total cost for the coach and best tickets for
the concerts will be £80.
Edinburgh
Ravel: Sonatine
Beethoven: Quartet in Cm, Op. 18, No. 4
Schumann: Piano
Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44
Doric String Quartet
Hisako Kawamura,
piano
‘how many people are truly capable of playing music with
the richness of expression and the humanity of Hisako Kawamura?’ [Citation
for Suntory Award].
That is quite a question on which to open
ENF 2024 and we are delighted to welcome Kawamura in her ENF debut with
her favoured chamber music partners, the Doric Quartet. Born in Japan and
raised in Germany, she brings a grounding in the European tradition
married to a questing spirit, and her programmes this week combine unusual
rarities with familiar masterpieces.
Please note: This event
includes an interval.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
Margret Köll, baroque triple harp
Stefan Temmingh, recorders
Two
remarkable musicians make a rare UK appearance for an hour of mesmerising
solos and duos in the lovely setting of St Monans Kirk. Köll’s ‘great joy
of playing and technical perfection’ matches the ‘brilliant, spontaneous,
playful’ Temmingh superbly in this varied and colourful programme that
explores five centuries of dance, song, sonatas and miniatures, including
music by Bach and Scarlatti: an enticing tapestry of stories told through
sound.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
St Monans Kirk
Richard Morrison, speaker
Chief culture writer of The Times, Richard
Morrison is better placed than most to look about him and assess how the
musical landscape of Britain is faring in some of the most challenging of
times for the arts in general. We ask him to reflect on how things are
changing for music especially, and where we might find ourselves in 10, 20
or 30 years’ time…
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr
olds.
Crail Church Hall
Beethoven: Sonata in E-flat, Op. 27, No. 1
Boulanger: Vers la vie nouvelle
Akio
Yashiro : Sonate pour piano
Beethoven: Sonata in C#m, Op. 27, No. 2
(Moonlight)
Hisako Kawamura, piano
Beethoven’s Op. 27
sonatas are a wonderful pair of left-field pieces, full of unexpected
twists and unusual ideas – not for nothing did Beethoven label them ‘quasi
una fantasia’ (like a fantasia). One became the most famous of all his
sonatas (though he never called it ‘moonlight’) and in both you can
readily picture him at the piano improvising and experimenting as we know
he did. Between these very special Beethoven pieces, Kawamura offers a
fascinating teacher-pupil pairing in Yashiro and Boulanger. She was
arguably the most influential music teacher of the 20th century (her
students included musicians as different as Gershwin and Glass), while he
was a star student from Tokyo who found his musical voice in Paris.
£5
tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
Haas: Quintet, Op. 10
Janáček: Mládí (Youth)
Janáček:
Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen
Suk: Meditation on an old Czech
hymn (St Wenceslas)
Smetana: Quartet in Em (From my life)
Pavel
Haas Quartet
Belfiato Wind Quintet
Česká Noc (Czech Night)
offers you two of the finest ensembles from the Czech Republic. Musically,
we should perhaps say Moravian, Bohemian and Czechoslovakian Night, as
these lands have a complicated history of occupation and independence, and
the music on offer takes you from their days as part of the Hapsburg
Empire (when Suk’s Meditation was an act of musical rebellion) to the Nazi
occupation when a generation of fine musicians (including Haas) were among
the many murdered. For all its historical complexity, this music is
powerful, distinctive and resilient, and makes for an ebullient, rich and
joyful evening.
Please note: This event includes an interval.
£5
tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Kilrenny Church
Anon: Se io m'accorgo ben mio d'un altro amante
Francesco da
Milano: Fantasia No. 30
Fantasia No. 34 (La Compagna)
John
McLeod : Three Mythical Pieces
Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin
Chaminade:
La Morena (Caprice Espanol), Op. 67
José: Sonata para guitarra
Ian
Watt, guitar
Watt takes us from Renaissance to 20th century Spain
via ancient Greece and Paris. Among many pleasures, Watt includes the
sonata by Antonio José. If his name is less than immediately familiar, it
is because he was only in his early 30s when a Falangist militia seized
and executed him during the Spanish Civil War. Prolific from an early age,
he had already created quite a body of work, most of it inspired by the
traditional music of the areas of Spain in which he lived and worked –
this piece is a melodious delight from start to finish.
£5 tickets
available for 7-17 yr olds.
St Monans Kirk
Shaw: Entr’acte
Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130 (Grosse Fuge)
Ever
on the lookout for exceptional young artists, we are very excited to
welcome Opus 13 to Fife this year. Prize winners at the Banff
International String Quartet Competition 2022, they were awarded the
prestigious Equinor Classical Music Award which goes to musical ‘heroes of
tomorrow’. Previous winners include Leif Ove Andsnes, Truls Mørk and Vilde
Frang. They come for four concerts, opening with one of the titanic
masterpieces of the genre. Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge is a work that inspires
the greatest minds to superlatives: together with the Hammerklavier
sonata (see Saturday 2.30pm) this is Beethoven at his most immense and
astonishing. The quartet pair it with one of the most popular quartets of
recent years, Shaw’s brief but very memorable ‘Entr’acte’.
£5
tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Kilrenny Church
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
In the dramatic setting of the
Zulu Gallery at Scottish Fisheries Museum harpist/composer, Esther Swift
creates an atmospheric evocation of the story of the Zulu fishing fleets,
once ubiquitous in East Scotland.
The Zulu was invented in 1879
(also the year of the Anglo-Zulu War, hence…) and swiftly became the
vessel of choice for fishermen all round Scotland’s coasts. Its dominance
was ended by World War I, and by the development of steam, then diesel
powered boats. Many of these graceful craft were simply left to rot on the
shores – some can still be found.
Esther Swift is creating a
piece bringing together community and professional musicians to evoke the
boats and the communities that depended on them, the storms they weathered
and the lives they led at sea and on land.
£5 tickets available for
7-17 yr olds.
Scottish Fisheries Museum
“…this music is layered with emotion, appreciation for style and tradition
and the freedom of just playing. The performances by both musicians are
stellar, leaving you thinking that this partnership was inevitable and
absolutely necessary.” Folk Radio UK
A dazzling duo of
wonderful Irish and Welsh musicians famed for their virtuosity and musical
freedom, spanning traditional and classical heritage and new musical
vistas. They are inspired by the cultures of their home countries.
Violinist/fiddler Aoife Ní Bhriain is as at home with Bach as she is with
traditional tunes, and harpist Catrin Finch, no stranger to ENF audiences,
has spent her life exploring different traditions and musical worlds.
Their duo has been called ‘almost otherworldly, like much of this set,
which captivates from beginning to end, to the point where you really
don’t want an end to come’ (The Arts Desk).
Please
note: This event includes an interval.
Anstruther Town Hall
Rachmaninov: Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3, Nos 2 & 3
Tchaikovsky:
Quartet in E-flat, Op. 30
Brahms: Piano Quartet in A, Op. 26
Boris
Giltburg, piano
Pavel Haas Quartet
Throughout this ENF we have
concerts inspired by meetings, links or friendships of great composers.
Here Tchaikovsky is the link. Boris Giltburg plays music Tchaikovsky
particularly admired by his protégé Rachmaninov , then joins the Pavel
Hass Quartet in a wonderful piece by a man whose music he simply could not
abide: Brahms. As a critic he did not hold back – ‘[Brahms] is content to
just keep on milling the wind with musical ideas that everyone has long
since grown tired of’. We beg to differ, and the Op. 26 Quartet makes a
magnificent and spirited foil for Tchaikovsky’s own final string quartet,
a dramatic, heroic piece.
Please note: This event includes an
interval.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
Hearing Renaud Garcia Fons play solo is a wonderful revelation: the sheer
range of sound he draws from the instrument is magical enough, but his
soulful, compelling music draws you right in. Ideal for this late evening
performance, solo and unplugged in the intimate space of Anstruther’s
Erskine Hall. It’s a small space but has a full and reverberant acoustic
to suit Fons’ magnificent artistry perfectly.
£5 tickets
available for 7-17 yr olds.
Erskine Hall
Grieg: Quartet in F, EG117
Schubert: Quartet in Dm, D. 810 (Death and
the Maiden)
This year’s programme has many performers playing
the music of their homelands. Opus 13 include both of Grieg’s quartets,
and as Grieg counted Schubert among ‘the noblest natures’ in music, we had
no hesitation in pairing his short second quartet with Schubert’s
tumultuous Death and the Maiden.
£5 tickets available for
7-17 yr olds.
Kilrenny Church
Reicha: Wind Quintet in E-flat, Op. 88, No. 2
Belfiato Wind Quintet
Beethoven:
Sonata in B-flat, Op. 106 (Hammerklavier)
Boris Giltburg, piano
Friends
from boyhood, Reicha and Beethoven make a fascinating pair. They met in
Bonn then Beethoven moved to Vienna and stayed there for the rest of his
life, while Reicha moved around war-torn Europe, eventually settling in
Paris where he became one of the most distinguished teachers and composers
of his time. In this programme we have key works by both men that happen
to be published in the same year, 1818. Beethoven’s heroic sonata is his
longest and most demanding, while the Reicha is one of the finest of his
25 wind quintets.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
A quartet of musicians from around the Mediterranean – Spain, Turkey, France – meet to bring us this mixing of classical and traditional instruments.
Anstruther Town Hall
Grieg: Quartet in Gm, Op. 27
Tchaikovsky: Dumka in Cm, Op. 59
Brahms:
Piano Quartet in Cm, Op. 60
Opus 13
Boris Giltburg, piano
Pavel
Haas Quartet
Once, Tchaikovsky unexpectedly found himself in the
company of Brahms, whom he thought he detested. In fact, he discovered
that he liked the man, even if he couldn’t bear his music. Awkwardly, he
was asked what he thought of Brahms’ new trio but was saved from
embarrassment when the door opened and in came Mr and Mrs Edvard Grieg.
They brought such bonhomie into the room with them that all the musicians
got on like a house on fire. This programme brings them together again,
performed by both of our resident quartets and Boris Giltburg
Please
note: This event includes an interval.
£5 tickets available for
7-17 yr olds.
Crail Church
‘Jazz is one the best things you can find in your life, it can always be your
friend’. George Gershwin sure knew how to spin a fine sound bite, but who
could disagree with this one. Julian Bliss Septet fields a top notch
line-up of bass, piano, rhythm, guitar, trumpet, vibes and – of course –
clarinet to celebrate the Gershwin songbook in this their 3rd return visit
to ENF. Expect plenty of laughs and quick-fire repartee in addition to
superb jazz in a free-flowing, high-spirited swinging evening.
Please
note: This event includes an interval.
Anstruther Town Hall
Andrea Tarrodi: Madárdal (Quartet No. 2)
Tiberiu Olah: Sonata for
Clarinet Solo
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581
Here’s a
fresh and zesty start to Sunday: Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet makes a superb
finale to follow some delightful music by a Swedish-Hungarian and
Romanian-Hungarian. Tarrodi’s draws on folk music from both her ‘native’
countries in a sparkling and dancelike quartet; meanwhile, Olah’s short
sonata takes inspiration from the exquisite sculpture of his
fellow-Romanian Brancusi, and is a proper tour-de-force for a musician as
communicative and virtuosic as Julian Bliss.
£5 tickets available
for 7-17 yr olds.
Elie Church
Neil Brand, piano
Silent movie supremo Neil Brand returns to ENF to
provide piano improvisation for an hour of comedy, including some
golfing-related japes.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Earlsferry Town Hall
Improvisation [Maxim Emelyanychev]
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22 in E-flat
K. 482
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A, Op. 92
Maxim Emelyanychev,
piano/conductor
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Scottish Chamber
Orchestra has performed at every single ENF, and no 20th birthday would be
complete without them. We are thrilled that SCO Principal Conductor, Maxim
Emelyanychev will close the 2024 Festival in style; he opens the concert
at the piano, improvising a solo fantasia on the spot before leading
straight into the grandest of Mozart’s piano concertos (very much as
Mozart or Beethoven might have done in their own performances). Then, he
and the orchestra close with the blaze of energy, light and joy that is
Beethoven’s 7th Symphony.
Please note: This event includes an
interval.
£5 tickets available for 7-17 yr olds.
Bowhouse
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
If you prefer to make your own way as much as possible, why not take the train to Leuchars, where you can pick up an ENF coach at 1.30pm to take you to Crail for ‘Meetings with Great Composers’ (events 13 & 15) before returning to Leuchars by 9.30pm to take the train of your choice homewards. Total cost for the coach and best tickets for the concerts will be £80.
Leuchars
A coach will leave central Edinburgh (location to be advised) at midday and
arrive in the East Neuk in time for the two ‘Meetings with Great
Composers’ concerts (events 13 & 15) in Crail Church. The coach will
return at approximately 8.30pm, arriving back in central Edinburgh no
later than 10.30pm.
Total cost for the coach and best tickets for
the concerts will be £80.
Edinburgh