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Sun 19 May, 2019 Sunday Music at The Gallery
Gallery Music: New compositions from the Guildhall School...
For the last three years, Gallery Music at the Courtauld has collaborated with the Composition department at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, using the Courtauld collections, history and location as a starting point for pieces written by students as part of their degrees. These pieces, world premieres, are…
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Sun 22 Jul, 2018 Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – The Mēla guitar quartet
Join us for the last Gallery Music before the Gallery closes, a summer celebration of music responding to our Impressionist collection, the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, and for fun, hear Handel meets Hendrix in Johanson’s Pluck, Strum and Hammer. Anthony Burgess, Quartet no.1 Hommage á Maurice Ravel, mv.1 Trés Vif Eric…
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Sun 17 Jun, 2018 Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Inspiration and Representation: work...
This afternoon’s music explores the parallels between artistic and musical composition through the medium of a solo oboe recital. The majority of the recital is programme music with a direct subject: the moon, a painting, or a myth. Yanada (the aboriginal word for moon) is evoked by Ross Edwards; Britten…
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Sun 20 May, 2018 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Voiceworks
Join us for world premieres of new compositions from students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama commissioned by The Courtauld Gallery to respond to our collection. Ode to Fear Rudy Percival (Composer) Chris Head (Baritone) Andrew Farnden (Bassett Clarinet) — The Marquisse Maya Caskie (Composer) Katie Roberts (Mezzo…
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Sun 22 Apr, 2018 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Pairs
This afternoon of music for voice and one instrument explores the working relation of duos or pairs (artist-model, composer-librettist, art historians-musicians, and between performers). Featuring the world premiere of Matthew Olyver’s ‘Purest White on the Sea of Heaven’, alongside music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Julian Philips, Sir John Tavener and young…
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Sun 11 Feb, 2018 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – ‘More music’: harmony and tonality i...
Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is one of his most iconic works, and a jewel of The Courtauld Gallery’s collection. To celebrate this remarkable painting before it goes on loan, this additional Sunday Music programme explores the music and writing discussed in the painter’s letters immediately preceding and after…
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Sun 28 Jan, 2018 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – She’s a Good Listener
A workshop in art interpretation and music exploring depictions of listening women in art. Join soprano and workshop leader Emily Dickens and Courtauld Gallery Educator Tempe Nell for a unique tour through the Courtauld Gallery collection considering colour, composition, style and harmony in a new light. Discover links between highlights…
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Sun 17 Dec, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Music for Christmas
Join Dr Charlotte de Mille and Courtauld alumnus Nerissa Taysom for a programme of choral music for Advent and Christmas.
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Sun 19 Nov, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Beneath the ‘Blue uniform̵...
This afternoon’s programme steps between private and public personas of Parisian cultural life, from Satie’s Gymnopédies (first heard at the cabaret-artistique Chat Noir) and Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis, to the vivacity and energy of Cocteau’s poems celebrating a mixed-genre circus troupe. Cocteau however is as interested in the intermissions, the…
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Sun 15 Oct, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Music in the age of Milton
On the 350th anniversary of publication of Milton’s Paradise Lost in 1667, this afternoon’s music explores the complex stylistic shifts in art, music, and poetry from the middle of the 17th century. Whilst the Continent was swept by the developments of Mannerism and the Baroque, Puritan, then Restoration Britain set…
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Sun 17 Sep, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Renoir’s La Loge: Opera in lat...
Complimentary to Impressionism’s interest in music, theatre, and spectacle, this afternoon’s programme explores the operatic world of late nineteenth century Paris, from the art song of the cabarets to opera of the theatres. In line with the surprising history of the Jockey Club opera-goers who demanded a ballet at the…
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Sun 23 Jul, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Objects of Affection: Marriage Chest...
The giving of cassone, or marriage chests, to newly wedded couples was commonplace amongst the wealthy cultural elite of early Renaissance Italy. Often placed in the bride’s room during the wedding celebrations, these objects were integral to the furniture of the bedchamber. They were heavily gilded and painted, decorating this…
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Sun 18 Jun, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Cranach and Luther: Faith and Friend...
In celebration of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary, this afternoon’s discussion highlights the close friendship and collaboration between Lucas Cranach the Elder and Martin Luther. Cranach was godfather to one of Luther’s children and offered the use of his press for the printing of Luther’s books. Our musical programme traces the…
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Sun 21 May, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – New Compositions from the Guildhall ...
This afternoon’s music programme is the culmination of a yearlong project of collaboration with the Guildhall School’s Composition and Vocal Departments. Five young composers respond to The Courtauld Gallery and its collection, from connection to our spaces, to works such as Lucian Freud’s Girl with Roses (1947). These compositions form…
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Sun 23 Apr, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Musical Impressions
This recital explores the music of Claude Debussy and his French colleagues Jacques de la Presle, Henriette Renié and Pierre Sancan. Debussy would rather have aligned himself with Symbolism or Fauvism than Impressionism in art, seeing his use of harmonic dissonances and rhythmic complexity to have more similarity with those…
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Sun 19 Mar, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – New Chromaticism: Kandinsky and Schö...
Kandinsky and Schönberg had commenced a lively correspondence in the years immediately before the First World War, when both found a shared vision for expressionist abstraction. Today’s performance focuses on developments that led Kandinsky to the Bauhaus, and Schönberg to complex dodecaphony. Schönberg’s Serenade marks the first attempt by the…
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Sun 19 Feb, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
‘Art for Art’ – Musico-visual Languages...
Taking inspiration from works on display by Modigliani, Heckel, Kirchener and Pechstein, this afternoon’s music programme explores the multiple ways in which composers and artists sought to re-define their media. Both art forms re-forged the abstraction, rhythmic and tonal complexities of pre-war work into non-musical sound and found objects, compound…
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Sun 5 Mar, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Performance – The Loves of Mars and Venus
This special event celebrates the tercentenary of modern ballet by recreating a piece first performed at Drury Lane Theatre in 1717, “The Loves of Mars and Venus; a Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing, Attempted in Imitation of the Pantomimes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans”. Combining new research in dance and…
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Sun 22 Jan, 2017 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – The Power of Eloquence: Art and Musi...
*Meet in Room 4 for introductory talk Tiepolo and Scarlatti in Context * Taking Tiepolo’s sketch The Power of Eloquence as a basis for this afternoon’s programme, we draw attention to the power of visual and aural works to speak without language, to summon emotion and to evoke place. Scarlatti…
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Sun 18 Dec, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Drop Down Ye Heavens: Renaissance Polyphony for Christmas
To mark the last Sunday before Christmas, join Nerissa Taysom in Room 2 of The Courtauld Gallery for a discussion of Advent themes in Francisco di Simone Ferrucci’s fifteenth century sculpture of the Virgin and Child. The talk will be accompanied by a performance of seasonal Renaissance polyphony sung live…
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Sun 20 Nov, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – The Poetics of Sculpture
In 1902, the young German poet Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris, enthralled by Rodin’s work. Remaining in the city until 1910, he wrote about the sculptor, in the form of both poem and essay. Join us for an exploration of the relationship between poetry and sculpture in general, and between…
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Sun 23 Oct, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Moving Music – Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Move...
In this double bill of two of the giants of the French quartet repertoire we explore shared inspiration and points of contact between Rodin and composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. All three attended the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, and all were blown away by the Indonesian gamelan…
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Sun 18 Sep, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Music – Lamentations for the Seilern Tripytch
The Seilern Triptych c. 1425, attributed to Netherlandish artist Robert Campin is one of the jewels in The Courtauld’s collection. We will explore the iconography of the painting in the context of the musical settings of Lamentations of Jeremiah. The practice of setting The Book of Lamentations was developed on…
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Sun 24 Jul, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Moving the Spirit: Music for Georgiana Houghton
Marking the centenary of Henry James’s death, Euphonia Opera presents a concert performance of the Tower Scene (Act I, scene 4), ‘How beautiful it is’, from Benjamin Britten’s operatic realisation of The Turn of the Screw (1898- 1954). Here, the Governess strolling in the evening catches a glimpse of Peter…
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Sun 26 Jun, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Music with Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT)
This afternoon’s programme reflects works in our permanent collection, taking particular inspiration from Biagio d’Antonio’Morelli-Nerli chests (1472) and Tahitian works by Paul Gauguin, Nevermore and Te Rerioa (1897). It is performed by musicians from Young Classical Artists Trust, our neighbours at Somerset House. John Dowland’s Forlorn Hope Fancy is one…
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Sun 22 May, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
King Harald’s Saga and New Song Composition from students...
The Icelandic Saga of King Harald provided the inspiration for perhaps the shortest 3-Act monodrama in music, at just under 10 minutes. Master of the Queen’s Music, Judith Weir, relates the story through soprano voice alone in a compelling and demanding role that sees the singer assume multiple characters. It is…
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Sun 24 Apr, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Dante’s Journey
Courtauld Community Choir, directed by Will Dawes. This programme will trace Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, in a thematic response to Botticelli’s drawings for a publication of The Divine Comedy exhibited in Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection. Repertoire will include Tallis, Victoria, Poulenc and Harris. If…
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Sun 28 Feb, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
From Darkness: Music for Botticelli and Bruegel
Taking inspiration from Bruegel’s grisailles and Botticelli’s evocations of hell and purgatory from Dante’s Divine Comedy, we explore representations of darkness in this Sunday recital of Deborah Pritchard’s solo cello piece From Night, written in response to Henry Vaughan’s poem The Night. From Night was a Park Lane Group commission…
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Sun 31 Jan, 2016 Gallery, Sunday Music at The Gallery
Sunday Music – Dowland, Caccini, Piccinini and Strozzi
The end of the 16th century saw a flowering of music in Italy, with Florence and Venice European leaders of innovation. In preparation for the opening of Boticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection, explore the sound worlds of these cities during the late 16th century and 17th century in…
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