Kamila Bydlowska (Poland) violin

Varvara Tarasova (Russia) piano
St Paul’s Worthing on Easter Day

(1 April) at 4pm – doors 3.30pm)

(Simpler Easter joys after the intense season of Passions, Requiems, Masses and Oratorios)

‘The violin will take you’ is a musical foreign destination tour of Spanish rhythms and aromas; of exotic night music and tarantella dancing that’s half-Polish, half-Iberian, half-Middle Eastern; of authentic Argentine tangoing; of full-blown German Romanticism; and blues-jazz from America’s 1920s Deep South. Four continents . . .

In the above order it’s de Falla’s Andalusian Serenade, Szymanovski’s Nocturne And Tarantella, one of Piazzolla’s Tango Etudes, Robert Schumann’s tossed and torn First Violin Sonata, and Frolov’s showpiece Concert Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Some is duo, some solo.

Plus the amusement, insight and extra surprises for which Worthing’s International Interview Concerts are already cherished. The interviewing both illuminates the music and the lives, minds and hearts of young musician role models such as these. Unexpected questions also spring from the audience.

Some surprises are musical. Varvara Tarasova in her 2016 solo piano appearance at these concerts, suddenly got up and sang an opera love aria as her second encore.  Other stimulating elements which enmesh audience and performers include the action close-up seating format In The Round and the cafe concert ambience.

Tarasova’s debut CD of Brahms and Schumann on Champs Hill, first admired by Gramophone, has now just been lauded in America by Fanfare who compares it equally to the work of seasoned recording artistes. This is rare, by serious reviewers.

Bydlowska comes from the Nigel Kennedy school of versatility and wide personal musical horizons. She plays classical concertos and chamber music, contemporary acoustic-electronic, jazz, and has a Tango band, La Tango Terra Quartetto. Combined, Bydlowska and Tarasova have an armoury to excite. Formerly at the Royal College of Music, now London-based, both are already international artistes playing on several other continents.

Tarasova reveals: “These Interview Concerts are a wonderful opportunity to communicate to the public, not only though music but friendly conversation. I performed solo in 2016 and was in the audience for the last one, in November. I’d never been to that type of concert with such a relaxing informal atmosphere. I wished for it to last longer. It was extraordinary.”

See the St Paul’s Worthing website blog:

https://stpaulsworthing.co.uk/blog/event/the-international-interview-concerts/

Tickets include concession for adult & young people in tandem, and Under-19s for £1

All available from the venue in person or online at seetickets.com

Other links:

https://twitter.com/KamilaBydlowska?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.facebook.com/varvara.tarasova.piano  (including Fanfare review of her CD)

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/varvara-tarasova-schumann-brahms