Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 26 March 2026
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Athem Trio
Veronika Barylo. soprano
Claire Marsden. French horn
Marc Kawwas, piano
Programme
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
from Mirtles Op 25 (1840)
Marc Kawwas
Paraphrases on Widmung for voice, horn and piano
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Ständchen, Serenade Op 106 No 1 (1886)
from Fünf Lieder Op 105
1 Wie Melodien zieht es mir (1886)
Like Melodies It Steals Softly Through My Mind
from Four Songs Op 70 (1875-77)
2 Lerchengesang, Song of the Lark
Franz Strauss (1822-1905)
Theme and Variations for horn and piano, Op 13 (1875)
Robert Schumann
from Mirtles Op 25
9 Lied der Suleika
Johannes Brahms
3 Internezzi for piano, Op 117
i. Andante moderato (Eb major)
ii. Andante non troppo e con molto expressione (Bb minor)
iii. Andante con moto (C# minor)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Seligkeit Bliss D 433 (1816)
Auf dem Strom c D 943 Op 119 (1828)
courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
Concert duration approx: 55+ minutes
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Athem Trio
Veronika Barylo
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Veronika Barylo is a young Coloratura Soprano of Ukrainian heritage, currently based in London, UK. Veronika is studying at the Royal Academy of Music. She previously trained at Chetham's School of Music and the Kyiv Musical Lyceum of Mykola Lesonko.
Recent performance highlights include singing the role of the Nightingale in Ravel’s opera L'enfant et les sortilèges and performing Bach’s Cantata Non sa che sia dolore with baroque orchestra. Veronika was a Finalist in the Chetham’s Concerto Competition (2024), performing Je veux vivre. She was also honoured with a scholarship from Eva Lind to participate in an international masterclass at the Musikakademie Tirol (May 2024). Veronika has received The Judith and Henry Tankel Memorial Award for Singing Excellence at Chetham's (2025). She was also awarded the Landkreises Nordsachsen Prize at the Torgau Singer Academy, Leipzig Conservatoire (Summer 2025). |
Claire Marsden
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Claire Marsden began playing the French horn aged nine. Having attended Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester for her sixth form, she started studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London in
September 2025, where she is playing Principal horn in the Academy Soloist Ensemble in Wigmore Hall in November. Recent solo performances include: Mozart’s Horn Concerto No 3 with The Orchestra of the Square Chapel; Glière’s Horn Concerto with Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra in Stoller Hall, as a winner of the concerto competition; Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra in Huddersfield Town Hall; Saint-Saëns' Morceau de Concert with the White Rose Orchestra; Strauss’s Horn Concerto No 1 with the Buxton |
Music Society and the Loughborough Orchestra; and the Rondo from Mozart’s Horn Concerto No 4 with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 in 2024.
She was Joint Principal Horn of the National Youth Orchestra from 2023 to 2025, playing in many performances around the country including in the BBC Proms. In 2022, Claire reached the BBC Young Musician brass semi-finals and in 2024 she featured on BBC4 among the final five brass players.
She was Joint Principal Horn of the National Youth Orchestra from 2023 to 2025, playing in many performances around the country including in the BBC Proms. In 2022, Claire reached the BBC Young Musician brass semi-finals and in 2024 she featured on BBC4 among the final five brass players.
Marc Kawwaz
Marc Kawwas is a Palestinian pianist studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Rustem Hayroudinoff. He has given recitals, performed concertos, and taken part in competitions and music festivals across three continents. Marc was a finalist at the Princess Lalla Meryem International Piano Competition in Morocco. The jury, chaired by Natalia Trull, awarded Marc with the special prize 'Best Contemporary Music Performer'.
Born in Bethlehem in 2006, Marc started playing the piano at the age of six. He had a glaring love for music from that young age. In 2019, Marc took part in Chetham’s Piano Summer School. Following which, at the age of 14, Marc completed his studies at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, and moved from Bethlehem to Manchester where he studied at Chetham’s School of Music for four
years under the tutelage of Helen Krizos.
Marc is a three-time finalist at the Chopin competition which is annually held at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). He has also been in the finals of the Windsor and Maidenhead concerto competition, as well as the Chetham’s Beethoven competition and concerto competition. Having passed the preliminary round of BBC’s Young Musician of the year, Marc received comments about his
chord voicing being “like listening to Richter”.
In addition to playing at RNCM’s concert hall and Carole Nash Recital Room, Marc has performed at Southwark Cathedral, Manchester Cathedral, The Stoller Hall and numerous other venues. Marc has also played in many masterclasses with leading pianists from around the world including Christopher Elton, Ian Jones, Kathryn Stott, Stephen Osborne, and Dina Parkhina.
At the age of 12, Marc won the Edward Said Concerto Competition, and played the ‘Romance’ from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 with The Edward Said Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Pierre-Antoine Marçais. Since then, his concerto repertoire diversified to include Khachaturian’s piano concerto, Gershwin’s F major piano concerto, which he has recently played with the Endcliffe
Orchestra, and Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto, which he has performed with multiple orchestras in the UK, once under the baton of Wissam Boustany, w1th whom Marc will be touring the UK as a flute & piano duo.
Born in Bethlehem in 2006, Marc started playing the piano at the age of six. He had a glaring love for music from that young age. In 2019, Marc took part in Chetham’s Piano Summer School. Following which, at the age of 14, Marc completed his studies at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, and moved from Bethlehem to Manchester where he studied at Chetham’s School of Music for four
years under the tutelage of Helen Krizos.
Marc is a three-time finalist at the Chopin competition which is annually held at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). He has also been in the finals of the Windsor and Maidenhead concerto competition, as well as the Chetham’s Beethoven competition and concerto competition. Having passed the preliminary round of BBC’s Young Musician of the year, Marc received comments about his
chord voicing being “like listening to Richter”.
In addition to playing at RNCM’s concert hall and Carole Nash Recital Room, Marc has performed at Southwark Cathedral, Manchester Cathedral, The Stoller Hall and numerous other venues. Marc has also played in many masterclasses with leading pianists from around the world including Christopher Elton, Ian Jones, Kathryn Stott, Stephen Osborne, and Dina Parkhina.
At the age of 12, Marc won the Edward Said Concerto Competition, and played the ‘Romance’ from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 with The Edward Said Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Pierre-Antoine Marçais. Since then, his concerto repertoire diversified to include Khachaturian’s piano concerto, Gershwin’s F major piano concerto, which he has recently played with the Endcliffe
Orchestra, and Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto, which he has performed with multiple orchestras in the UK, once under the baton of Wissam Boustany, w1th whom Marc will be touring the UK as a flute & piano duo.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Marc Kawwas
Paraphrases on Widmung for voice, horn and piano [2:15]
Widmung is the first song in Schumann's Opus 25 song cycle "Mirtles" which he wrote as a wedding gift for his then fiancée Clara Wieck. Mirtles were a traditional part of a bride's wedding outfit.
Widmung - or Dedication - is based on a poem by the German Friedrich Rückert. The subject? Like much of the cycle, it is about love and marital devotion. Naturally, this popular work became one of Clara's favourites. The singer here is Amy Broadbent.
Marc Kawwas
Paraphrases on Widmung for voice, horn and piano [2:15]
Widmung is the first song in Schumann's Opus 25 song cycle "Mirtles" which he wrote as a wedding gift for his then fiancée Clara Wieck. Mirtles were a traditional part of a bride's wedding outfit.
Widmung - or Dedication - is based on a poem by the German Friedrich Rückert. The subject? Like much of the cycle, it is about love and marital devotion. Naturally, this popular work became one of Clara's favourites. The singer here is Amy Broadbent.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Ständchen, Serenade Op 106 No 1 (1886) [1.30]
from Fünf Lieder Op 105
1 Wie Melodien zieht es mir (1886) [2:00]
Like Melodies It Steals Softly Through My Mind
from Four Songs Op 70 (1875-77)
2 Lerchengesang, Song of the Lark [2:42]
Ständchen, a title used several times by Brahms, and by other composers too. So what does it mean? Stãndchen: ein kleines Lied oder Musikstüc... Google translate opts for "serenade" - music made while standing, an opportune moment for a song or interlude.
In this first recording the soprano is Claire Lairy, with pianist Florian Puddu performing in the Salle Cortot, Paris.
For "Like Melodies" let's go instrumental with this recording of the late American violinist Aaron Rosand, at a house concert.
Our recording of Lark Song comes from Fatma Said, accompanied by Joseph Middleton at the 2021 Leedslieder, held in Leeds Town Hall.
Franz Strauss (1822-1905)
Theme and Variations for horn and piano, Op 13 (1875) [12:00]
Franz Strauss was a virtuoso horn player, leading the section of the Bavarian Court Opera for over 40 years. He also played guitar, viola, and clarinet. He was father to Richard Strauss. We shall hear this work in its complete form, with the Introduction. The musicians here are Jean-Jacques Justafré, horn, and François-René Duchâble, piano. You will also have the opportunity to follow the score.
Robert Schumann
from Mirtles Op 25
9 Lied der Suleika [2:35]
This is another song from Mirtles - the wedding gift to Clara Wieck.
Suleika's Song was published in a book of Goethe's lyrical poems. However, after his death the actress and dancer Marianne von Willemer revealed that this was one of the poems that she had written! The singer in this recording is Dorothea Röschmann with pianist Graham Johnson:
Johannes Brahms
3 Internezzi for piano, Op 117 (1892)
i. Andante moderato (Eb major)
ii. Andante non troppo e con molto expressione (Bb minor)
iii. Andante con moto (C# minor)
Wikipedia tells us: Brahms described these works as "three lullabies of my grief". The first intermezzo is among Brahms's most popular piano compositions. It is prefaced in the score by two lines from an anonymous Scottish ballad, "Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament", translated to German by Johann Gottfried Herder:
Schlaf sanft mein Kind, schlaf sanft und schön!
Mich dauert’s sehr, dich weinen sehn.
Scottish Original:
Baloo, my babe, lie still and sleep;
It grieves me sore to see thee weep.
Let's listen to the magical beauty of Andras Schiff:
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Seligkeit Bliss D 433 (1816) [2:00]
Auf dem Strom On the Stream D 943 Op 119 (1828) [9:00]
If you want to hear a live recording of Elisabeth Schwartzkopf there may be a little compromise on the vision. Her she is in a "final" encore at the Amsterdam
Franz Schubert
Auf dem Strom On the Stream D 943 Op 119 (1828) [9:00]
From the Imperial Hall (Kaisersaal) Wurzburg Residenz in Gernamy, we hear a recording by Julien Prégardien, tenor, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, piano, and Martin Helmchen, cello:
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