Commemorative Concert

John Barton Armstrong 90th Anniversary

28th March 2013

Various composers

FREE!

This is the first of two similar concerts. The second performance is in Birmingham on 17th June.

A programme of British cello music celebrating the 90th Anniversary of John Barton Armstrong’s birth, with:

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Lionel Handy, cello
Nigel Clayton, piano

The featured work at this event is John Barton Armstrong’s Cello Sonata, a very substantial single-movement piece of nearly half an hour’s duration that ranks as one of his most important compositions after his symphonies and opera. Also featured is Peter Thompson’s The Renaissance Spirit, a solo piano work written in memory of John Barton Armstrong. Both The Renaissance Spirit and Martin Glover’s Interstate are receiving their first performances at these concerts.

Date & Venue

Date:	Thursday, 28th March 2013 at 7:30 pm
Venue:	Vestry Hall
	University of West London
	Ranelagh Road
	London W5 5RJ
	(near South Ealing tube station; see map to the right)

Tickets

Entry to this event is now FREE! (This is contrary to initial advertising.)

Note that this concert will be repeated in Birmingham on 17th June.

Programme details


	Composer	Title	Performer(s)
	Various	Commemorative Concert John Barton Armstrong 90th Anniversary 28th March 2013	Lionel Handy, ’Cello, Nigel Clayton, Piano
#	Composers	Work	Performer(s)
1	Sir Arnold Bax	Cello Sonatina in D	Lionel Handy, ’Cello, Nigel Clayton, Piano
2	John Barton Armstrong	Cello Sonata
3	Benjamin Britten	Chaconne
4	Peter Thompson	The Renaissance Spirit (in memoriam J.B.A.) First performance	Nigel Clayton, Piano
5	Philip Grange	Elegy	Lionel Handy, ’Cello, Nigel Clayton, Piano
6	Martin Glover	Interstate First performance
7	Frederick Delius	Violin Sonata no 3 (Transcribed for cello by Lionel Handy)

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Catalogue code: C20130328 • Published: 7th March 2013
Entry last updated: 7th March 2013