Halstead Music Festival 2025 Concerts

Friday 27th June at 7.30

“Prelude”: piano recital – Christopher White

Rachmaninoff: 10 preludes, Op.23

Chopin: 24 preludes, Op.28

Saturday 28th June at 2pm

String Quartet concert – Scintilla Quartet, Royal Academy of Music, London.

Haydn: String quartet op. 64, no. 6

Graźyna Bacewicz: String quartet no. 4

Ravel: String quartet in F major

Saturday 28th June at 7.30pm

“Ravel 150”: Christopher White, Eloisa-Fleur Thom and Brian O’Kane perform Ravel’s Piano Trio, and other chamber works

Anon., arr. O’Kane: Song of the Birds

Tchaikovsky: Sentimental Waltz

Ravel: Piece in the form of a Habañera

Saint-Saëns: The Swan

Debussy: General Lavine, Eccentric

Ravel: Hommage à Borodine, Hommage à Chabrier, Prélude

Debussy: Violin Sonata

Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

Sunday 29th June at 2pm

Organ recital – Joshua Simões, organist and Assistant Director of Music to His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court.

Liszt(arr. Simões): Totentanz: Paraphrase on ‘Dies Irae’

Otto Olsson: Symphony no.1 in E-flat

Sunday 29th June at 7.30pm

“A Celebration of the Voice”

Song and Opera Highlights performed by four international soloists.

Oksana Lepska – Soprano

Clare Presland – Mezzo Soprano

Anando Mukerjee – Tenor

James Platt – Bass

Franz Schubert – from ‘Swan Song’ (Schwanengesang): numbers 1, 4, and 12

Ned Rorem – Early in the Morning

Francis Poulenc – Fancy

Paolo Tosti – L’alba and L’ideale

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Summer Nights and Dream

Stephen Sondheim – The Boy From…

C.M. Schönberg – Stars from ‘Les Misérables’

R. Rogers – Some Enchanted Evening from ‘South Pacific’

INTERVAL

Jaques Offenbach – Barcarolle from ‘Tales of Hoffmann’

Giacomo Puccini – Donna non vidi mai from ‘Manon Lescaut’

W.A. Mozart – La Vendetta from ‘The Marriage of Figaro’

Giuseppe Verdi – Bella figlia dell’amore from ‘Rigoletto’

Georges Bizet – arias from ‘Carmen’ (celebrating 150 years)

Giuseppe Verdi – Ella giammai m’amo from Don Carlo

Giacomo Puccini – Mi chiamano Mimí and O soave fanciulla from ‘La Bohème’