Little Missenden Festival 2008

 

Little Missenden Festival 2007

Alexandra Wood violin, Huw Watkins piano

This duo made an impressive Little Missenden debut in 2002, playing Huw's exciting Tarantella.

 

The Times has called Alexandra Wood's playing "highly charged yet imaginatively refined", and The Strad praised the "sheer full-bodiedness of her sound" and called her "a talent to watch".  Her recent CD of world premiere recordings was called "agile, incisive and impassioned" in BBC Music Magazine.  

 

Huw Watkins is a brilliant young pianist and composer - "a pianist of alert intelligence and a composer with something to say" (Independent on Sunday). Strongly committed to new music, he has premiered works by Goehr, Maxwell Davies and Turnage.  

 

Alexandra Wood website

 

Huw Watkins page from Schott’s site

Event 10 2007

Violin sonatas

Wood and Watkins

 

Saturday October 20th,3.00 pm

Little Missenden Church

Tickets £11, unreserved  

£18 combined tickets for Events 9 and 10 if booked in advance

A rarely-heard late Elgar sonata precedes Howells's Three pieces, whose beautiful melody celebrated his engagement.  Richard Drakeford, who studied with Howells, was one of the Festival's founders and its main artistic mentor.  Sandy Goehr once said, "I regard it as a personal defeat if people can't follow my pieces" - a rare view among 20th century contemporaries.  The Romance of his pupil Huw Watkins (2003) is a lyrical single-movement work).

 

Note change of programme:  Huw Watkins Violin sonata is replaced by his Romance for violin and piano.

Photo by Andy Male

Alexandra Wood

Huw Watkins

Little Missenden Festival 2007