Classical music and jazz: Preview - Natalie Clein - various performances through May - starting May 9th
Published: 6 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
THERE will be three opportunities for the army of Natalie Clein fans to hear the exciting Muswell Hill cellist playing over the next few weeks.
On Sunday she’s playing at the Wallace Collection, in Hertford House, Manchester Square, as part of the Resonances sound and music experience which could be a bundle of fun. The “experience” involves a one-hour voyage through the house where rooms will be brought to life with an installation by soundtrack composer Simon Fisher Turner and prose written and recorded by Jeanette Winterson.
After the tour Natalie will give a one-hour solo recital of Bach’s solo cello sonata suites and the premiere of a new work by talented songwriter Fyfe Dangerfield, leader of the eccentric rock band Guillemots.
On Thursday May 20, Natalie is giving a solo recital as part of the BBC Radio 3’s lunchtime concert series at LSO St Luke’s, Old Street. The programme will include two of Bach’s unaccompanied suites and the premiere of a new sonata written for her by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher.
And on May 27, she’s doing something entirely different at Kings Place, King’s Cross. Together with pianist Paul Beard, she’ll be performing a new work to accompany the screening of The Temptress, the 1926 silent film starring Greta Garbo. In the film, narcissistic Elena (Garbo) drives every man to despair. One of her victims tries to escape, but this time Elena is in love and she follows him from Paris to his native Argentina.
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