RVIPW 2024 Martin Roscoe Recital
Contact Information
The Croston TheatreWestholme School
Meins Road
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB2 6QU
Tel: 07810 504701
This programme by Festival Director and internationally acclaimed concert pianist, Martin Roscoe, concludes the 29th and final festival of a 35 year journey.
Martin opens the concert with Haydn’s ever popular, baroque-influenced Sonata No.50 before taking on Schubert’s beloved Four Impromptus, Op.90, featuring some of the composer’s stormiest and most heart-rendering passages.
The second half begins with Bénédiction de Dieu dans La Solitude, the largest and finest piece of “Harmonies poétiques et religieuses”, with a quotation in the score in which the writer searches to define religious truth, trying to understand the faith and peace that surrounds and overwhelms him. Finally, it seems only fitting that the curtain is drawn on the festival with Martin Roscoe playing the crowning body of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, the great Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111.
N.B. There will not be a Pre-Concert talk for this performance.
PROGRAMME
Haydn Sonata No. 50 in D Major, Hob. XVI/37
Schubert Four Impromptus, Op.90, D.899
Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu dans La Solitude from “Harmonies poétiques et Religieuses”, S.173
Beethoven Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111
Martin Roscoe photo: Eric Richmond
July 2024
Road Directions
By car – From M6 Junction 31 take the A59 exit on to Preston New Road, signposted to Blackburn. At the roundabout continue towards Blackburn on the A677, passing Samlesbury Hall on your left. 6 miles from the M6, turn right on to Meins Road After 1 mile along this country road, Westholme School entrance is clearly signposted on your right. Follow the main drive to the large free parking area.
Public Transport Directions
By rail – Blackburn railway station is accessible by taxi 2.7 miles away
Parking: Free parking Some disabled spaces are available adjacent to the Croston Theatre
Approximate journey times by car: Blackburn town centre – 7 mins, 2.7 miles Preston – 20 mins, 10 miles Burnley – 22 mins, 15 miles Leyland – 23 mins, 13 miles Bolton – 30 mins, 15 miles Lytham-St-Annes – 40 mins, 28 miles Lancaster – 40 mins, 33 miles Manchester – 50 mins, 27 miles Liverpool – 57 mins, 43 miles
For details of local public transport contact Blackburn Visitor Centre 01254 688040 For information out of normal office hours call Travelines 0871 200 2233 or National Rail 03457 484950.
