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"Songs of Triumphant Love is an enthralling novel: I couldn't stop reading. I got deeper and deeper into the very real world Jessica Duchen has created and just had to find out how it would unravel. Jessica writes with an unpredictable and original voice and a dazzling perceptiveness, and I was hooked from the first page. A sensational achievement."
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Monday 9 January 2012
22 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NR
THE END OF TIME
Bob Boas is kindly hosting at his beautiful salon a performance of THE END OF TIME – my one-act play A Walk through the End of Time plus the Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time, paired as intended – starring a brand new team of actors and musicians. Sue Porrett (Holby City, A Short Stay in Switzerland) and Patrick Drury (Father Ted, Silent Witness) portray the star-crossed divorcees who meet after many years to listen to the Quartet, which is played by a crème-de-la-crème ensemble of Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), Viv McLean (piano), Matthew Hunt (clarinet) and Gemma Rosefield (cello). Profuse thanks to the supercharged Yvonne Evans for her fearless organisational efforts! Further details available soon. |
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Sunday 22 July 2012, matinee concert
Buxton Festival
HUNGARIAN DANCES: THE CONCERT OF THE NOVEL
An exciting return to the Hungarian Dances concert, bringing together words from my novel with some of the music that fed its creation. Our star performers are violinist Bradley Creswick (leader of the Northern Sinfonia) and pianist Margaret Fingerhut. Gypsy music and classical music inspired by it form the heart of the programme, illustrating the story of Mimi Rácz in extracts from the book, read by me. Please watch this space for further details of box office, venue and start time. |
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Hungarian Dances was selected by violin star Tasmin Little as one of her favourite books, during her Proms Plus talk on Saturday 3 September. In the interview with Anne McElvoy, which was broadcast later that day during the interval of the Prom on BBC Radio 3, Tasmin termed the book ‘gripping’ and ‘very exciting’.
The actor Henry Goodman read out selected passages from all four of Tasmin’s literary choices, including Hungarian Dances, which duly found itself in some rather distinguished company alongside Hamlet, Siddhartha and the verses of Hilaire Belloc.
The broadcast is available on BBC iPlayer until 10 September at this Link |
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9 October, 12.30pm, Kings Place, Hall One, London
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: MYTH AND MADNESS |
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I’ll be in the interviewer’s chair to max out the Master of the Queen’s Music, the great composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, as part of the Notes & Letters series at Kings Place. A deranged King (George III, who famously thought he taught the birds to sing) and a musical god (Orpheus, whose divine music invoked his own end) are but a couple of the multiple historical and legendary subjects to have attracted him over the decades.
For more details and Box Office: Click Kings Place Logo |
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FRANZ LISZT: SINS OF THE FATHER |
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A story about Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner with musical illustrations.
Narrated by Damien Beaumont. |
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Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville, Australia - July 31st 16:00
The fascinating relationships between Franz Liszt, his daughter Cosima and Richard Wagner form the unusual triangle at the heart of my new Words&Music script, commissioned especially for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music by its artistic director, pianist Piers Lane. The show marks Liszt’s bicentenary year and just some of the music on offer will be Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Liszt’s Lugubre Gondola, Vallée d’Obermann and Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, and music by Paganini and Bartók. We’re very excited to report that the great Australian Wagnerian soprano Lisa Gasteen will be singing, alongside artists including pianist Danny Driver, the Contigulia Brothers Piano Duo, cellist Louise Hopkins, violinists Philippe Graffin and Jack Liebeck, and more, besides Piers himself. The narrator is ABC radio presenter Damien Beaumont. Starts at 4pm in the Townsville Civic Theatre.
For full details, please visit: the AFCM website (scroll to 4:00 pm)
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ABC Classic FM has this Broadcast available on their website for you to listen to. Click Logo and scroll to Monaday, August 1st, 1pm and listen to i,t either with RealPlayer or Win Media Player. |
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June 11th - Wigmore Hall - 21:45 |
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POST-CONCERT INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN HOUGH
Stephen is one of my favourite pianists, favourite interviewees and favourite bloggers: quite a combination. Following his Wigmore Hall recital this evening, I will interview him on the stage about his playing and his programme of Beethoven, Liszt, Scriabin and Hough - he is giving the world premiere of his own piano sonata, ‘Broken Branches’.
The post-concert event will feature another world premiere, Stephen’s ‘Other Love Songs’ performed by The Prince Consort.
Wigmore Hall website |
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March 26th to April 1st 2011
San Francisco and Bay Area, USA
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CHANTICLEER: “LET ME IN”
A new choral work, music by Roxanna Panufnik and words by me, will be premiered by the celebrated a cappella ensemble Chanticleer, which commissioned it as part of their project ‘The Boy whose Father was God’.
Based on a story from the Gnostic Gospels, it depicts the child Jesus encountering a mother mourning for her dead baby; he restores the infant to life.
Information on the tour, tickets
and the full concert programme here
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March 22nd - The Great Hall,
Old Swinford Hospital School, Stourbridge, DY81QX |
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HUNGARIAN DANCES - THE CONCERT OF THE NOVEL
Bradley Creswick (violin) and Margaret Fingerhut (piano) star in the story of Mimi Rácz, the Gypsy girl who becomes a great classical violinist, but at a terrible personal price.
Music includes Dohnányi’s bewitching Andante rubato alla Zingaresca, Ravel’s Tzigane, Bartók’s Romanian Dances, Hubay’s Hejre Kati and the Violin Sonata by Debussy, plus dazzling numbers in Gypsy style. I read the extracts from the book.
Details on the School website | Location Map
Booking: 01384 817316 or by email to ljoyce@oshsch.co.uk |
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March 18th - Potton Hall, Suffolk - 19:30 |
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HUNGARIAN DANCES - THE CONCERT OF THE NOVEL
Bradley Creswick (violin) and Margaret Fingerhut (piano) star in the story of Mimi Rácz, the Gypsy girl who becomes a great classical violinist, but at a terrible personal price.
Music includes Dohnányi’s bewitching Andante rubato alla Zingaresca, Ravel’s Tzigane, Bartók’s Romanian Dances, Hubay’s Hejre Kati and the Violin Sonata by Debussy, plus dazzling numbers in Gypsy style. I read the extracts from the book.
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March 15th - Institute Français - 19:00 |
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OPEN INTERVIEW WITH SONIA WIEDER-ATHERTON
The fascinating cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton is in London for a series of concerts at Kings Place, based around her latest recordings: an extraordinary and literary time-travel through the works of Monteverdi, a rediscovery of Chants Juifs and a total immersion in the soundscapes of Russia.
Come and meet her at the Institut Français. I am chairing the Q&A session. Booking for the talk: 020 7073 1350.
Link to the Institute's website |
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IN CONVERSATION WITH HELENE GRIMAUD, Institut Francais, 21 November 2010 |
My interview with the acclaimed French pianist Helene Grimaud at the Institut Francais was filmed.
Both a long edit and a short one are now available to view on the Institut's website:
http://www.culturetheque.co.uk. Here is the long version (20 mins) |
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And the short one (6 mins) |
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BBC TV'S 'SACRED MUSIC'
In these extracts from the recent acclaimed BBC TV series, Jessica talks about
Faure's Requiem and the impact on the composer of the Franco-Prussian War. |
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