Talks

Almost every concert in the Festival will be preceded by a talk on aspects of that evening’s programme. These talks, given by a variety of entertaining and engaging speakers, are intended to help prepare listeners for the music they are about to hear, opening up particular elements of the repertoire either through nuggets of historical background, examinations of the texts, or more personal performance issues.

Talks begin at 7.10pm in the same venue as the concert, and are free of charge to ticket holders

16th
Richard Stokes

17th
Richard Wigmore

20th
Richard Wigmore

21st
Eugene Asti

22nd
Ian Partridge

23rd
Natasha Loges

24th
Philip Bullock

25th
Alisdair Hogarth

26th
Roderick Swanston

29th
Roger Vignoles

30th
Richard Stokes

31st (11am-3.30pm)
Music and Poetry in fin-de-siècle Paris: A Study Day

31st (7.10pm)
James Gilchrist