Peter Medhurst

Puriton, Bridgewater, Somerset

Lecture Recital

Venice in London: Venetian Influences on English Music and Culture

As the powers of Venice declined in the 18th century, many of its artists and musicians looked for work elsewhere and, perhaps inspired by the many young Englishmen on the Grand Tour, they set their sights on London. Musicians such as Galuppi and Alberti were joined by eminent painters such as Canaletto and Pelligrini, as this Venetian influence infiltrated London.

2.15 pm

http://www.northsomersetdfas.org.uk/Lectures/FutureCalendar.aspx

Moorend Road, Charlton Kings

Study day

Music in the Great Art Collections of Europe

Many of the great – but smaller – European art collections are tucked away in side streets, country houses and provincial towns, known often only to connoisseurs and local communities.  With an eye to important paintings, musical instruments and pictures with musical content, Peter Medhurst explores some of these quality galleries, and examines the contents of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Burghley House in Lincolnshire, The Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, the Vleeshuis in Antwerp, and the Ca’ Rezzonico in Venice.

Contact Bridget Pettigrew 01242 244090

Uckfield, East Sussex

And so to Vauxhall . . . .

Drawing on period newspapers and diaries, digital images, and music in the Vauxhall Gardens’ repertoire, Peter Medhurst gives a vivid impression of cultural life at London’s first ‘South Bank’.  Music performed includes: The Lass with the Delicate Air – M Arne, Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind – TA Arne, Hornpipe for Vauxhall 1740 – GF Handel, Allegro from Organ Concerto in C – TA Arne (see recording below), Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill – J Hook, and Farewell to Vauxhall – J Lampe

2.30 pm

http://www.uckfielddfas.org.uk/Prog.html

6 Queen Square, London

WC1N 3AR

Study morning and tour of the site in Lambeth where the Vauxhall Gardens were once situated

And so to Vauxhall . . . .

Drawing on period newspapers and diaries, digital images, and music in the Vauxhall Gardens’ repertoire, Peter Medhurst gives a vivid impression of cultural life at London’s first ‘South Bank’.

11.00 am

Private event

Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria

Paintings inspired by Music and Music Inspired by paintings

It has long been recognised that the worlds of the visual and aural arts link with extraordinary power when one medium inspires the other.  The lecture, which spans over 600 years of the arts, analyses and discusses a range of related works, bringing together the music of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus with Respighi’s Trittico botticelliano, Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead with Rachmaninoff’s symphonic poem, and Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie with the piano playing of Albert Ammons.

10.30 am & 1.30 pm

Henley-on-Thames

Music in the Great Art Collections of Europe

Many of the great – but smaller – European art collections are tucked away in side streets, country houses and provincial towns, known often only to connoisseurs and local communities.  With an eye to important paintings, musical instruments and pictures with musical content, Peter Medhurst explores some of these quality galleries, and examines the contents of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Burghley House in Lincolnshire, The Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, the Vleeshuis in Antwerp, and the Ca’ Rezzonico in Venice.

10.45 am & 2.00 pm

http://www.hedfas.org.uk/

The Owen Harris Building, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe

HP11 2J

I simply follow my feelings . . .

Mozart through the eyes of his contemporaries

The story of Mozart’s portraits is – essentially – the story of Mozart’s life, and by a stroke of good fortune, the surviving portraits spread evenly across his working career.  We know what he looked like at the age of six when he performed to the Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna at the age of 5.  We know that when he appeared to the Parisian audiences in 1763, he was so small in stature that when seated at the harpsichord his feet were unable to touch the floor.  We sense the family pride pouring out from the ‘Order of the Golden Spur’ picture of 1777 (Mozart was knighted by the Pope for services to Catholic music); and we have an overwhelming feel for the final stages of his genius through the sensitive, though incomplete, portrait painted by Joseph Lange in  c1790.  Through live music and digital images, the lecture explores Mozart’s life through the 14 – or so – authentic portraits.

7.30 pm

Information Mrs Carole Willat: c_willatt@tiscali.co.uk

Fritz-Haber-Villa, Faradayweg 8, 14195 Berlin, (U3 Thielplatz, Bus M11 Hittorfstrasse)

Drawing on period newspapers and diaries, digital images, and music in the Vauxhall Gardens’ repertoire, Peter Medhurst gives a vivid impression of cultural life at London’s first ‘South Bank’.  Music performed includes: The Lass with the Delicate Air – M Arne, Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind – TA Arne, Hornpipe for Vauxhall 1740 – GF Handel, Allegro from Organ Concerto in C – TA Arne (see recording below), Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill – J Hook, and Farewell to Vauxhall – J Lampe

Lecture-recital by Peter Medhurst

8 pm Doors open for the sale of wine and soft drinks from 7.30 pm.

Berlin BRIDFAS

Enquiries to Ursula Fortune: Telephone: 030 / 833 71 63

Drapers’ Hall

Throgmorton Ave, City of London

EC2N 2DQ

The operas of Gilbert & Sullivan are rich in contemporary satire and witty personal allusions. The evening shows how each of the fourteen operas, on which the partners collaborated, drew inspiration from the world in which they lived.  As a result, celebrities, politicians, social mores, manners, artistic taste, the class system – even Queen Victoria’s red drawing room at Windsor Castle – are poked fun at.  Peter Medhurst performs and introduces a wide range of moments from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, including the Judge’s Song from Trial by Jury, I am very Model of a Modern Major General from The Pirates of Penzance, the Sentry’s Song from Iolanthe, and Rataplan from Cox and Box.

7.30 pm

Private Event

Many of the great – but smaller – European art collections are tucked away in side streets, country houses and provincial towns, known often only to connoisseurs and local communities.  With an eye to important paintings, musical instruments and pictures with musical content, Peter Medhurst explores some of these quality galleries, and examines the contents of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Burghley House in Lincolnshire, The Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, the Vleeshuis in Antwerp, and the Ca’ Rezzonico in Venice.

Banstead Community Hall, Park Road

7.30 pm

Tickets £9 – Available from The Ibis Bookshop, the Chipstead Decorative and Fine Arts Society, at the door, or via the following link bansteadartsfestival.ticketsource.co.uk

http://www.bansteadarts.co.uk/concert7front.php

Beatrice Road, Salisbury

SP1 3PN

Lecture-recital

Venice in London: Venetian Influences on English Music and Culture

As the powers of Venice declined in the 18th century, many of its artists and musicians looked for work elsewhere and, perhaps inspired by the many young Englishmen on the Grand Tour, they set their sights on London. Musicians such as Galuppi and Alberti were joined by eminent painters such as Canaletto and Pelligrini, as this Venetian influence infiltrated London.

2.00 pm

http://www.newsarum-dfas.org.uk/AboutUs/WhereWeMeet.aspx

The Firs, Bowden, Altringham, Cheshire

WA14 2TQ

Lecture-recital

Peter Medhurst explores the works of the French sculptor Roubiliac, the paintings of Hudson and Denner, the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, the novels of Samuel Butler, the Crystal Palace, the chimes of Westminster, as well as compositions by Sullivan and Tippett, to assess the cultural influences Handel had on ‘a nation’, as he once wrote, ‘from whom I have receiv’d so generous a protection’.

1.45 pm

Info: 0161 998 2859

St John’s Road, Buxton, Derbyshire

SK17 6BE

In the Wake of Handel

Peter Medhurst explores the works of the French sculptor Roubiliac, the paintings of Hudson and Denner, the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, the novels of Samuel Butler, the Crystal Palace, the chimes of Westminster, as well as compositions by Sullivan and Tippett, to assess the cultural influences Handel had on ‘a nation’, as he once wrote, ‘from whom I have receiv’d so generous a protection’.

11.00 am

http://www.cavendishnadfas.org.uk/index.html

Stockwell Close, Bromley, Kent

The Dutch paintings of the 17th century, which show musical scenes are among the most evocative and best loved of the period.  However, the presence of music in the pictures of Vermeer and his contemporaries goes far beyond mere representation and appears to carry hidden and complex meanings that the viewer must attempt to decode, in order to get to the heart of the picture.  Peter Medhurst discusses in great detail Vermeer’s musical scenes and performs a selection of period songs and keyboard music to complement the pictures.

7.45 pm

Music includes: Almande prynce ~ Anon, Il ballo del granduca ~ Sweelinck, Allemand ~ Steenwick, Rondo from Abdelazer ~ Purcell, Der Maj – Anon, Heere Keere ~ arr Valerius.

http://www.bedfas.org.uk/index.php?page_id=33

Philip Salmon (tenor) and Peter Medhurst (harpsichord) discuss Purcell’s diverse and rich legacy of songs, and to the accompaniment of period instruments will perform vocal highlights such as Music for a While, Lord What is Man?, Sweeter than Roses, She Loves and She Confesses and The Evening Hymn.  The day will also give an opportunity to hear some of Purcell’s fine harpsichord music, including Suite No 2 in G minor, A New Ground and Rondo from Abdelazar.

Mailing list members only

Love Lane, Petersfield

GU431 4BW

Lecture-recital

Music in the Great Art Collections of Europe

Many of the great – but smaller – European art collections are tucked away in side streets, country houses and provincial towns, known often only to connoisseurs and local communities.  With an eye to important paintings, musical instruments and pictures with musical content, Peter Medhurst explores some of these quality galleries, and examines the contents of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Burghley House in Lincolnshire, The Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, the Vleeshuis in Antwerp, and the Ca’ Rezzonico in Venice.

10 50 am

Information: 01730 825374

Stamford

Songs and Arias by Mozart and His Contemporaries

Through songs and arias performed live at the piano, Peter Medhurst explores the rich vein of Mozart’s vocal music, at the same time making reference to contemporary composers, whom Mozart held in high esteem.

10.45

http://www.stamcomms.eclipse.co.uk/stadfas/events.html

Holtwood Road, Oxshott, Surrey

KT22 0QL

Venice in London: Venetian Influences on English Music and Culture

As the powers of Venice declined in the 18th century, many of its artists and musicians looked for work elsewhere and, perhaps inspired by the many young Englishmen on the Grand Tour, they set their sights on London. Musicians such as Galuppi and Alberti were joined by eminent painters such as Canaletto and Pelligrini, as this Venetian influence infiltrated London.

2.30 pm

http://www.cobhamandoxshott-dfas.org.uk/Default.aspx

Nutley, East Sussex

TN22 3NE

Venice in London: Venetian Influences on English Music and Culture

As the powers of Venice declined in the 18th century, many of its artists and musicians looked for work elsewhere and, perhaps inspired by the many young Englishmen on the Grand Tour, they set their sights on London. Musicians such as Galuppi and Alberti were joined by eminent painters such as Canaletto and Pelligrini, as this Venetian influence infiltrated London.

2.30 pm

http://www.nadfassussexarea.org.uk/nadfassussexarea_021.htm

‘The Soft Complaining Flute’ – 18th century flute sonatas

Linda Howarth (Baroque & modern flute) and Peter Medhurst (harpsichord & piano) look closely at the Baroque, Rococo and Classical flute sonata, tracing the development – and the constant rejuvenation – of one of the best-loved forms of chamber music.

Music includes Sonatas in C & E for Flute and Continuo (BWV 1033 & 1035) and the Sonata in A minor for Solo Flute (BWV 1013) by JS Bach, Sonata in G minor by CPE Bach, Sonata in G (Op 1 No 5) by Handel, along with works by Abel and Mozart.

Mailing list members only

South Street, Wilton, Salisbury, Wilts

SP4 6PA

It has long been recognised that the worlds of the visual and aural arts link with extraordinary power when one medium inspires the other.  The lecture, which spans over 600 years of the arts, analyses and discusses a range of related works, bringing together the music of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus with Respighi’s Trittico botticelliano, Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead with Rachmaninoff’s symphonic poem, and Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie with the piano playing of Albert Ammons.

11.00 am

For information telephone: 01722 782365