The 2019 Eleventh Biennial Readers Conference
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Hertford College, Oxford University: April 12 & 13
Biennial Readers Conference
The Bruckner Journal
PROGRAMME
Friday Evening, 12 April:
Ken Ward: Either/Or – The aesthetic and the ethical approach to Bruckner
Miguel Ramirez: "Lost in Rio". Emil Lamberg, a Bruckner student in Brazil
Saturday All-Day, 13 April:
Andrea Harrandt: Bruckner's first year in Vienna (1868/69). Musical life in an expanding city
Alan George: Challenges posed by performing the Bruckner Quintet
Malcolm Hatfield: Beethoven, Bruckner and his Finale "problem"
William Carragan: Bruckner's simplest idea: forms of the late Allegro movements
Thomas Röder: Bruckner as improviser
Benjamin Korstvedt: What is a version, and what difference does it make? Reflections from an editor's desk
Paul Hawkshaw: The early history of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony
Eric Lai: Formal challenges in the Adagio of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony
Saturday Evening Concert, Hertford College Chapel:
presented In Memory of Dr. Paul Coones
Fitzwilliam String Quartet - 50th Anniversary Season!
Schubert: String Quartet in G Major, D. 887 (Op. 161, 1826)
Bruckner: String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112 (1879)*
* featuring Sophie Renshaw, viola
Download the Programme here - including details of times and sessions
Presenters
Evening Chapel Concert
Lucy Russell violin
Marcus Barcham Stevens violin
Alan George viola
Sally Pendlebury cello
Hertford College