David Le Page, Viv McLean, Jessica Duchen
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Ghost Variations
The strangest detective story in the history of music - inspired by a true incident.
A world spiralling towards war. A composer descending into madness. And a devoted woman struggling to keep her faith in art and love against all the odds.
It's 1933. Dabbling in the fashionable "Glass Game" - a Ouija board - the famous Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Aranyi, one-time muse to composers such as Bartok, Ravel and Elgar, encounters a startling dilemma. A message arrives ostensibly from the spirit of the composer Robert Schumann, begging her to find and perform his long-suppressed violin concerto.
The concert traces the story of the great Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Aranyi and her rediscovery of the Schumann Violin Concerto, mingling shortened extracts of the novel with some explanatory links and, of course, the music that she used to play including the Bartok Romanian Dances, extracts from the Mendelssohn and Schumann violin concertos, Ravel's Tzigane, Hubay's Hejre Kati, Schumann's Violin Sonata in A minor and the theme from the Geistervariationen...
David Le Page
The UK's most exciting violinist since Nigel Kennedy, widely acknowledged for the brilliance and innovation of his interpretations. David was born in…
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Viv McLean
One of Britain's foremost classical pianists who has performed throughout the world as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist. Viv has…
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Jessica Duchen
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