La Fontenille

Ventenac en Minervois

Les soirées lyriques, musicales

2004 - 2007

 
 
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1. Chants autour du monde

Nathalie Nicaud (soprano)

Christophe Back (piano)

21 August 2004

A delightful programme, mainly of French and Italian operatic arias, by our former singing teacher from Montpellier.

 

 

2. Music for pleasure

Glenn Kesby (counter-tenor)

Barbara Curry (soprano)

Dorothy Hull (piano)

5 Mar 2005. Mostly English songs, from Dowland to Novello, by two Australian singers. When Glenn began the evening with Come again there was a collective sigh of pleasure from the packed audience. 540€ raised in aid of tsumani relief via Zonta International.

 

 

3. Entr’amis à Ventenac

8 April 2005. A mainly French group of eight amateur singers and two accompanists in a variety of songs, duets and short choral works from Monteverdi to Bernstein. 300€ raised in aid of Médecins Sans Frontières.

 

 

4. Chants pour le salon

William Coleman (baritone)

Julian Evans (piano)

29 July 2005. This excellent young English baritone sang a programme of lieder, mélodies and songs. Particularly memorable were Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Mahler) and the witty Chansons Gaillardes by Poulenc.
 

5. Récital violoncelle-piano

Daniel Harrison (cello)

Kit Downes (piano)

2 September 2005. A superb début recital by two 18 year old English musicians, who had already played before VIPs at Buckingham Palace and the Palais de Versailles.

 

6. Soirée consacrée à Clara Schumann

Entr’amis and friends

24 September 2005. An evening devoted to Clara's life and music, with slide show and commentaries. Lieder and piano music of Clara, her husband Robert and their friend Johannes Brahms. Surtitle translations from German into English and French were displayed during the singing. 540€ raised in aid of women's groups via Zonta International.

 

7. Concert à deux pianos

Evelyne Counil & Danielle Pouzenc

25 November 2005. An interesting programme by two well-known local music professors, including the F minor sonata for two pianos by Brahms and the Fantasia in F minor for 4 hands by Schubert.
8. Musique de chambre
Les Solistes de Bardou
11 August 2006. These young professional string musicians from Germany meet every summer at Bardou, to work on new repertoire while on holiday. Their excellent concert included the Mozart quartet K.590 (Prussian), and Brahms's quintet in F major. They are Felix Heckhausen, Gernot Maetzel (violin), Sarah Pape, Andreas Bartsch (viola) and Volker Bohnsack (cello).
 
9. Chants pour le salon
Helen Lawson (soprano)
Celia Duffy (piano)
10 September 2006. A very moving recital of mainly French mélodies and English/American song, including some of Copland’s settings of Emily Dickinson poetry. 625€ raised for Médecine Aide et Présence.

10. Les nuits d'été

Charlotte Newstead (soprano)

Janet Barwell (piano)

26 May 2007. This talented young concert soloist gave us a variety of French and English songs, the centrepiece being Les Nuits d'Été by Berlioz. 100€ raised in aid of Ingénieurs Soutien aux Pays en Voie de Développement (ISPVD).

 

11. Summer school 2007

directed by Helen Lawson (soprano)

Janet Barwell, Monique Dumortier, Celia Duffy (piano)

and their students

4 August 2007 - a free recital by seven singers at the end of their week-long singing workshop and masterclasses under the direction of Helen Lawson, who brought over four of her very talented young singing students for the week.

 

12. Les nuits d'automne

Robin Hendrix (mezzo-soprano)

Michel Prezman (piano)

2 December 2007. Songs in English, French and German were beautifully sung by Robin, and Michel also played some solo pieces by Chopin, Debussy and a toccato composed by himself. 200€ raised in aid of Ingénieurs Soutien aux Pays en Voie de Développement (ISPVD).

 

We had a break from offering recitals between the end of 2007 and mid 2010.

 

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Nathalie Nicaud

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glenn Kesby

&

Barbara Curry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entr'amis

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Coleman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Harrison

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clara soirée

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evelyne Counil

&

Danielle Pouzenc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Les solistes

de Bardou

 

 

 

 

 

Helen Lawson

& Celia Duffy

 

 

 

 

 

Charlotte Newstead

& Janet Barwell

 

 

 

 

 

Summer school 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robin Hendrix

& Michel Prezman