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The art of expression
The Bath Festival in May is putting on a series of events especially suited to the collections and themes found in The Holburne Museum. Georgette McCready takes a look along Great Pulteney Street to find out more...
The rising stars of classical music You can begin your Bath Festival day at 11am each morning, with a series of exhilarating concerts by young performers. British cellist Laura van der Heijden – who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2012 – begins the week at the Holburne playing Bach, American composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Imogen Holst. 16 May, 11am. Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is the third member of the KannehMason family to reach the final stages of BBC Young Musician of the Year. Her programme includes the elegance of Mozart to the virtuoso fireworks of Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No 2 and Liszt. 17 May, 11am. Pianist Ariel Lanyi emerged as a major musical talent as a prizewinner in the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021. He will be playing Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Op.15 and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 in B, Op. 106 (Hammerklavier). 18 May 11am. On Thursday, violinist Irène Duval and pianist Sam Armstrong pair up for a ravishing French programme which includes Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns. 19 May, 11am. On the Friday, accordionist Ryan Corbett mixes baroque, romantic and contemporary music. 20 May, 11am. And violinist Joanian Ilias Kadesha completes this galaxy of rising stars on Saturday. 21 May, 11am.
Perspectives on art and design Gaze from the other side of the canvas at the models of art as art historian and critic Ruth Millington talks to Holburne Museum director Chris Stephens about the women who have inspired masterpieces across the centuries. 16 May, 3.30pm. In English Garden Eccentrics landscape architect and author Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a fascinating array of English garden-makers who, between the 17th and 18th centuries created idiosyncratic gardens incorporating miniature mountains, exotic animals, caves and topiary. 17 May, 3.30pm. In 2003 writer Helen Rappaport discovered the lost painting of British-Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. With an illustrated talk she’ll unravel the enigma of
the unknown artist and detail her journey. 18 May, 6pm. Wimpey homes, Millennium monuments, wind farms and skyscrapers. Self-confessed architecture geek John Grindrod, author of Iconicon, takes us on an enthralling journey round the Britain we have created since 1980: the horrors and delights, the triumphs and failures. 17 May, 6pm. The 19th-century landscape painter John Constable is one of Britain’s best-loved but perhaps least understood artists. Art and cultural historian James Hamilton (Constable: A Portrait) reveals a complex, troubled man, explodes myths and establishes him as a giant of European art. 19 May, 3.30pm. Acclaimed painter Celia Paul has felt a lifelong connection to the artist Gwen John. Letters to Gwen John is a combination of
Violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha. Photograph by Kaupo Kikkas
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. Photograph by John Davis
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