Royal wedding star to perform at Petworth Festival Special
Adapting to challenging times, the festival now offers a week of highlights from the summer that didn’t happen and then goes straight into its usual October/November literary festival – all under the banner the 2020 Petworth Festival Special.
Events will happen live to small invited audiences of sponsors and friends – but will be streamed, giving the public the chance to buy tickets and attend the events online.
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Hide AdA special festival for our times, it will kick off on Friday, October 16 at 8pm with the London Mozart Players with Howard Shelley (piano) and conclude on Sunday, November 1 at 7pm with Robert McCrum Shakespearean.
It offers an impressive opening weekend.
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason (cello and piano) perform on Saturday, October 17 at 8pm (1hr) – a concert available to view online for 48 hours, £4.99.
Cellist Sheku shot to worldwide fame when performing at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, but well before this breakthrough he had proved himself to be a remarkable interpreter of the cello repertoire and advocate for classical music.
For this Petworth Festival recital he is joined by his sister – pianist Isata – in a concert that showcases a wide range of repertoire for the cello and piano: Beethoven - Cello Sonata in C Major, Op 102, No 1; Bridge – Mélodie for Cello and Piano in C sharp minor, H 99; and Rachmaninov – Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19.
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Hide AdMitsuko Uchida (piano) will perform on Sunday, October 18, at 8pm (1hr) – again a concert available to view online for 48 hours.
Mitsuko Uchida is known as a peerless interpreter of the piano works of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven.
The full festival line-up is:
Friday, October 16, 8pm, London Mozart Players with Howard Shelley (piano).
Saturday, October 17, 8pm, Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason (cello & piano).
Sunday, October 18, 8pm, Mitsuko Uchida (piano).
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Hide AdMonday, October 19, 8pm, Special Summer Concert: Harry Rylance, Vóreios Trio & Harry the Piano (repeat screening).
Tuesday, October 20, 8pm, Tasmin Little with John Lenehan (violin & piano).
Wednesday, October 21, 8pm Clare Teal & Trio (jazz). Thursday, October 22, 8pm MILOŠ (solo guitar).
Friday, October 23, 8pm, Patti Boulaye – Aretha & Me (jazz).
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Hide AdSaturday, October 24, 12 noon, Joanna Trollope Mum & Dad; 8pm, Charles Owen with Katya Apekisheva (piano duo).
Sunday, October 25, 3pm David Nott War Doctor; 7pm, AN Wilson The Mystery of Charles Dickens.
Monday, October 26, 12 noon, Nicholas Coleridge Magazines, Museums and Selective Memories; 7pm, James Naughtie On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump.
Tuesday, October 27, 12 noon, Kate Fall The Gatekeeper; 7pm, An Evening with Michael Morpurgo.
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Hide AdWednesday, October 28, 12 noon, Vanessa Branson One Hundred Summers; 7pm, Anthony Horowitz Moonflower Murders.
Thursday, October 29, 12 noon, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason House of Music; 7pm, Lev Parikian Into the Tangled Bank/Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
Friday, October 30, 12 noon, Jonathon Porritt Hope in Hell; 7pm Martin Bell War & Peacekeeping.
Saturday, October 31, 12 noon Kenneth Baker On Assassinations; 7pm, William Boyd Trio.
Sunday, November 1, 3pm, Ariana Neumann When Time Stood Still; 7pm, Robert McCrum Shakespearean.
Tickets on www.petworthfestival.org.uk.