WEDNESDAY 11 July 2012 at 7.30pm Come and join us for a Potton Hall first as a member of the audience for a concert which is being recorded for release on CD. Robin Ireland and Tim Horton formed their Duo in 2009. Robin was the violist of the celebrated Lindsay String Quartet for twenty [...]
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BEETHOVEN PREMIERE AT POTTON HALL Fresh from receiving his latest Gramophone award, for his recording of the Ravel concertos and Debussy’s Fantasie, the charismatic French pianist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, returns to Potton Hall for the next installment in his series of Beethoven sonata performances. Last year Jean-Efflam gave an unforgettable recital at Potton Hall including Beethoven’s [...]
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Following the great success of her Chopin evening last year, Lucy Parham returns with a programme devoted to the life and music of that most romantic of all piano composers, the great Franz Liszt Lucy Parham with Harriet Walter and Henry Goodman, two of our best loved English actors, offer an enjoyable and informative insight [...]
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“The Brodsky Quartet are the team for the new century”, Gramophone magazine said when reviewing the quartet’s last recording, Rhythm and Texture. It included the Quartet by Maurice Ravel and prompted Norman Lebrecht to comment that “all you want to do when the disc ends is play it again.” That CD was recorded at Potton Hall where [...]
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“He made of the piano an orchestra of lamenting and exulting voices”, wrote Robert Schumann when the young Johannes Brahms visited him in Düsseldorf, a description that could equally well apply to Jonathan Plowright’s playing. Hailed as “one of the finest living pianists” (Gramophone), Jonathan Plowright has been a regular visitor to Potton Hall since [...]
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Hungarian Dances is a dazzling journey in words and music through the story of the bestselling novel of the same name by Jessica Duchen. Jessica Duchen reads extracts from her acclaimed novel, which follows the turbulent story of a Gypsy girl who becomes a famous classical violinist, but at a terrible personal price. The tale [...]
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When the young Czech pianist Libor Novacek won the first Landor Competition in 2005, the prize was a CD recording with Jeremy at Potton Hall. An instant connection was made between Libor and Jeremy and an acclaimed CD of music by Janacek, Martinu and Ravel was the result of their first collaboration. Libor has found [...]
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It has been more than a week since Potton Hall was treated to a wonderful concert by the acclaimed pianist Jean Efflam-Bavouzet. For me, it was a concert of command and charisma and the pleasure was heightened by Jeremy and Jean-Efllam’s discussion before each half of the performance. No where have I learnt so much [...]
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Potton Hall has a new arrival – a brand new Steinway Model D grand piano. Four of the world’s top concert pianists helped us to select the new piano: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Louis Lortie and Martin Roscoe. Ulrich Gerhartz, Senior Technician at Steinway had earmarked four instruments for us to try and thankfully, the [...]
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