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SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2009 at 7.45pm
Pre-concert interview with members of The Revolutionary Drawing Room at 6.45pm
The Revolutionary Drawing Room
String ensemble led by Adrian Butterfield (violin)
Haydn: String Quartet in G major Op 77 No 1;
Spohr: Double Quartet No 1 in D minor Op 65;
Mendelssohn: String Octet in E flat major Op 20
Founded in 1990 by Adrian Butterfield, the Revolutionary Drawing Room specializes in classical and romantic music on period instruments.
Combining a historical approach to interpretation with a commitment to lively and communicative performances,
the ensemble gives convincing readings of less well-known works as well as revealing fascinating detail and colour in the familiar Viennese classics.
Their programme for HMS marks three centenaries – the death of Haydn and the births of Mendelssohn and Spohr in 1809.
Adrian Butterfield is Associate Director of the London Handel and Tilford Bach Festivals and directs the London Handel Orchestra
at these and other festivals across Europe.
He is also leader/director of the Steinitz Bach Players at the London Bach Festival and the Hanover Band.
He is Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music.
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SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2009 at 7.45pm
Pre-concert interview with Donald Maxwell at 6.45pm
Donald Maxwell (Bass baritone) & Friends
Opera Bites
Donald Maxwell made his debut with Scottish Opera thirty years ago and has since sung with all the major British
Opera companies, at the BBC Proms, and abroad at La Scala Milan, Vienna Staatsoper, Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires),
Théâtre Musical de Paris and the Salzburg Easter Festival.
He has a repertoire of over 100 roles ranging from Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus to Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream
and including Balstrode (Peter Grimes), Iago (Otello), Wozzeck, Flying Dutchman, Rigoletto, Nick Shadow (The Rake's Progress),
Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande), Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier) and Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte).
He is particularly noted for his portrayal of Verdi's Falstaff, which he has sung at the Edinburgh International Festival
and in London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Milan and Vienna
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