Happy Birthday Gabriel Fauré, born on this day in 1845 🎂
Here’s his beautiful ‘Romance‘ with Karel Bredenhorst a few years ago for @cervochambermusic
We look forward to going back to Cervo in June!
#fauré #romance #chambermusic #cervo #cellopianoduo
Big melodies, real drama, and that unmistakable piano-and-strings sound, live at the Easterbrook Hall.
The Sacconi Quartet join pianist Simon Callaghan at Easterbrook Hall on Saturday 11 July 2026 for two absolute masterpieces, Schumann’s Piano Quintet and Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, with Rachmaninov’s Romance to open.
@sacconi_quartet@simondcallaghan@classicfm@dg_unlimited1@dgwgo #classicalmusic #dumfries
Did you know? Debussy’s sonata for violin and piano in G minor, L. 140, was written in 1917. It was the composer’s last major composition and is notable for its brevity (about 13 minutes). The premiere took place on 5 May 1917, the violin part played by Gaston Poulet, with Debussy himself at the piano. It was his last public performance.
#violin #piano #musicfact #Debussy #sonata
Dear Friends in Japan!
I’m really pleased to let you know about two solo recitals in Japan next month, for Steinway Tokyo and Steinway Osaka.
Please come if you can!
日本の友人の皆様へ！
来月、スタインウェイ東京とスタインウェイ大阪にて、ソロリサイタルを2回開催することになりましたので、お知らせいたします。ぜひお越しください！
https://www.steinway.co.jp/SST/events/2026/0511
https://www.steinway.co.jp/SSO/events/2026/0518
#japan #piano #steinwayandsons #simoncallaghanpianist
Really excited to be playing Paganini Rhapsody by Rachmaninoff with the @chesterphilorchestra and David Chatwin on Saturday! 😆
Here’s a snippet from 2009 with the @policeorchestra and Tom Hammond at Birmingham Symphony Hall
#paganini #piano #chester #simoncallaghanpianist
Delighted to be included in the @gramophonemagazine Editor‘s Choices “The Best Classical Albums of 2026 (So Far)”!🥳
@lyritarecords
/content/features/the-best-classical-albums-of-2026-so-far
#classicalrecording #piano #recordings #cdrelease
Very much looking forward to joining the @chesterphilorchestra with David Chatwin on April 25th for a performance of one of Rachmaninoff’s best works, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 😃
https://chester.nub.news/news/local-news/acclaimed-pianist-to-join-chester-orchestra-for-cathedral-performance-291906
#rachmaninoff #piano #chester #whatsoninchester #pianoconcert
Dumfries doesn’t get many chances to hear this level of chamber music at close range. The kind that feels less like “a concert” and more like being let in on something.
On Saturday 11 July 2026, The Easterbrook Hall hosts the Sacconi Quartet with pianist Simon Callaghan for a programme that’s essentially a three-part argument for why classical music still matters when it’s played properly. Rachmaninov’s Romance opens in a hush of lyricism, all long lines and late-night glow. Schumann’s Piano Quintet follows; urgent, restless, beautifully constructed. Music that moves like a conversation you can’t stop listening to. After the interval comes Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, a work with the sweep of a great novel: generous, rhythmic, and quietly devastating when it wants to be.
The Sacconi are the rare quartet with both longevity and edge. Formed in 2001 and unchanged since, they’ve built a reputation on unanimity of ensemble and a kind of imaginative freshness that keeps familiar repertoire feeling newly minted. Simon Callaghan, meanwhile, is a pianist of international distinction with the sort of authority that never needs to announce itself; his playing has been praised as technically brilliant, but what you notice first is the intelligence, the sense that every phrase has a point.
If you’ve been telling yourself you’ll “try classical” one day, make it this one. These are big-hearted pieces, played by artists who know how to make them speak.
Sacconi Quartet with Simon Callaghan. Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries DG1 4TA. Saturday 11 July 2026. Tickets via Midsteeple Box Office.
@easterbrook_hall@simondcallaghan@sacconi_quartet@dgwgo@dg_unlimited1@dglifemag #classicalmusic #dumfriesandgalloway #concert
“The impressive A minor Sonata by Henriëtte Bosmans opened the second half in turbulent, heroic mode. Wallfisch used non-vibrato most effectively in the Adagio and there were piano fireworks from Callaghan in the Allegro con fuoco…” @the_strad_
Read full review (link in bio): /reviews/concert-review-raphael-wallfisch-cello-simon-callaghan-piano/20913.article #reviews #thestrad #cello #piano #classicalmusic
