Austrian flavour comes to town; MAGICAL MAY DAYS.HOW TO BOOK The festival, promoted by Warwick Arts Society, has ticket prices starting from just pounds 5. To reserve seats or make enquiries call the festival box office on 01926 496277,10am and 4.30pm, Monday to Saturday. A TASTE of Austria is coming to Leamington Royal Pump Rooms The Royal Pump Rooms is a building in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK. It was once the most famous building in town and was where people would travel from throughout the country, and indeed Europe, to benefit from treatment using the town's healing waters. over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. Haydn, the Austrian composer, is the subject of a festival of music performed by high profile international talent between April 28 and May 3. Throughout the festival, Cafe Hudson, at the Pump Rooms Noun 1. pump room - a pump house at a spa where medicinal waters are pumped and where patrons gather pump house, pumping station - a house where pumps (e.g. , will also provide a selection of Austrian food and wine to create Haydn's Austria in Leamington. On Friday April 28, there will be a talk by The Lindsays, supporters of Haydn's music, before their performance of Haydn's String Quartet string quartet Ensemble consisting of two violins, viola, and cello, or a work written for such an ensemble. Since c. 1775 such works have been perhaps the predominant genre of chamber music. Opus 33, while at 11am, on April 29, the Galeazzi Ensemble will perform some of Haydn's Flute quartets. The highlight of the festival will be the performance by the Hauschka Ensemble, on April 29 at 1pm, with Jeremy Brooker, the only player in the world to specialise in playing the baryton bar·y·ton n. A bowed string instrument of the 18th century, similar to the bass viol, but having sympathetic strings on the rear of the fingerboard. , an instrument Haydn wrote nearly 200 works for, and Roland Hutchison, an American virtuoso specially flying in for the performance. Radio 4's Peter Hobday
The Lindsays will also perform a selection of Haydn's string quartet music on April 29 while a free event, called Leamington at the time of Haydn, on May Day at 7.30pm, will allow people to tour the historic sites of Leamington with guide Dave Vorns. Soprano Catherine Bott Catherine Bott (September 11, 1952) is an English soprano with an international reputation as a baroque specialist. Following her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, with Arthur Reckless, she began her career as a member of the English baroque-jazz crossover group, and David McGuiness, a renowned pianist, will be performing on the evening of May 1 and James Lisney James Lisney (born 6 May 1962) is an international concert pianist. He was a prize-winning graduate of the Royal College of Music where he studied with Phyllis Sellick and John Barstow – and early success was achieved after he gained representation by the Young Concert will be performing a number of Haydn's sonata's on May 2 at 1pm. The events will conclude on Wednesday, May 3 with a performance of string quartets from the Haydn Quartet of Vienna. |
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