2022 Programme/ Rhaglen 2022
Gŵyl Gregynog Festival 2022
Saturday 25 June 2022, 2.30pm
Y Parlwr Mawr | Senior Common Room, Gregynog
Dr Rhian Davies
‘By particular Desire’: Welsh musicians in Georgian Bath
Rhian Davies reconstructs the eighteenth-century world when Welsh exports to Bath included performers, composers and impresarios as well as flannel, cobs and mutton
Saturday 25 June 2022, 4.00pm
Yr Ystafell Gerdd | The Music Room, Gregynog
Maximilian Ehrhardt, telyn deires | triple harp
Maximilian Ehrhardt is based in Berlin and specialises in playing historic harps including the Welsh triple harp.
His pioneering CD None But the Brave (2020) showcases music from three manuscripts at the National Library of Wales which are associated with John Parry, the blind musician who worked as domestic harper to Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn of Wynnstay.
Sunday 26 June 2022, 2.30pm
Y Parlwr Mawr | Senior Common Room, Gregynog
‘Baffling!’: Béla Bartók in Aberystwyth
Dr Rhian Davies
On 16 March 1922, the great Hungarian pianist-composer Béla Bartók made his UK public recital début at the Parish Hall in Aberystwyth, playing his own compositions plus a Beethoven Piano Trio with members of the University chamber ensemble.
A hundred years on, Rhian Davies considers this remarkable occasion, described by the Cambrian News as ‘an epoch-marking occurrence in the career of the music students’ and by Professor Walford Davies as ‘Baffling’!
Sunday 26 June 2022, 4.00pm
Yr Ystafell Gerdd | The Music Room, Gregynog
Llŷr Williams, piano
Llŷr Williams is widely admired for his profound musical intelligence and for the expressive and communicative nature of his interpretations. An acclaimed performer of Beethoven, he makes a welcome return to the Music Room for the first time since 2011 with a programme that begins with the ‘Pathétique’ Sonata before exploring compositions influenced by folksong by Tchaikovsky, Bartók and Warlock.
Images courtesy of:
Rhian Davies © Iestyn Hughes
Maximilian Ehrhardt © Ivan Barra
Parish Hall, Aberystwyth (c) National Library of Wales
Llŷr Williams © Hannan Images