Piano recital: Libby Burgess

Tickets £5 - £10

Programme:

French Suite No 5 in C Major BWX 816, Johann Sebastian Bach
O Frondens Virga, Hildegard von Bingen arr. Marie Luise Hinnichs
Melancholy Galliard, John Dowland arr. Peter Warlock
Allegro from Sonata in F Op 4 No 1, Maria Hester Park 
Notturno Op 6 No 5, Clara Schumann
Nocturnus V: Wind oor die Branders, Richard Pantcheff
Venetianisches Gondellied Op 30 No 6, Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words (from Homages), Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Deep River, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Chaconne, in D Minor, Johann Sebastian Bach transc. Ferruccio Busoni 

Libby Burgess is a well-known soprano, playing regularly as song specialist and chamber musician. She is the founding Artistic Director of New Paths Music, curating fourteen festivals of song, chamber music and community outreach. 

Her recent calendar includes song recitals at Wigmore Hall with Alessandro Fisher, Oxford Lieder with Ailish Tynan, Southwell Festival with Mark Padmore, Leeds Lieder with Claire Barnett-Jones, Temple Music with Ashley Riches, and Aldeburgh Festival with Ben Hulett, The Rite of Spring in duet with Chris Hopkins, recitals with Julian Bliss, Matilda Lloyd and Laura van der Heijden; a complete Beethoven cello sonata project with five cellists and frequent broadcasts with the BBC Singers. Her premiere with baritone Marcus Farnsworth of Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Everything Grows Extravagantly was selected by The Times as a highlight of the year. 

Libby Burgess was the first female organ scholar at Christ Church. 

This concert is an event in the Christ Church@ Five Hundred Years of Music festival.