Raphael Wallfisch and Simon Callaghan

3.00PM

Seaford Baptist Church, Belgrave Road, Seaford BN25 2EE

Raphael Wallfisch, Cello, and Simon Callaghan, Piano, played Schumann's Adagio and Allegro in A Flat Major, Opus 70, Chopin's Cello Sonata in G Minor, Opus 65, B160, Rachmaninov's Two Pieces, Opus 2, and Beethoven's Cello Sonata Number 2 in G Minor, Opus 5, Number 2

Seaford Music Society was delighted to be able to welcome back "one of the greatest Cellists of our time", who first featured in the 2017-2018 Season of Concerts. With a discography of over 70 CDs, Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most-recorded classical artists in the World. A BBC survey named his recording of Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B Minor, Opus 104, B19, the best that had been published, in the past twenty-five years. With Concert appearances around the World, he is at the height of his powers, with a masterful technique and a soaring, singing sound that evokes a tradition continued from his Teacher, Piatigorsky. He has been at the forefront of playing and commissioning new works by contemporary Composers, working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, Rodion Schedrin, John Tavener and many others

Further details are in the Programme Notes

As an Encore, they played Dvořák's From the Bohemian Forest, Opus 65, B133, Number 5, Silent Woods, B173

There was an audience of one hundred and thirty-three people present