Royal wedding star to perform at Petworth Festival Special

A Petworth Festival with a difference kicks off this week three months after the pandemic wiped the summer event off the calendar.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason by Jake TurneySheku Kanneh-Mason by Jake Turney
Sheku Kanneh-Mason by Jake Turney

Adapting to challenging times, the festival now offers a week of highlights from the summer that didn’t happen and then goes straight into its usual October/November literary festival – all under the banner the 2020 Petworth Festival Special.

Events will happen live to small invited audiences of sponsors and friends – but will be streamed, giving the public the chance to buy tickets and attend the events online.

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A special festival for our times, it will kick off on Friday, October 16 at 8pm with the London Mozart Players with Howard Shelley (piano) and conclude on Sunday, November 1 at 7pm with Robert McCrum Shakespearean.

It offers an impressive opening weekend.

Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason (cello and piano) perform on Saturday, October 17 at 8pm (1hr) – a concert available to view online for 48 hours, £4.99.

Cellist Sheku shot to worldwide fame when performing at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, but well before this breakthrough he had proved himself to be a remarkable interpreter of the cello repertoire and advocate for classical music.

For this Petworth Festival recital he is joined by his sister – pianist Isata – in a concert that showcases a wide range of repertoire for the cello and piano: Beethoven - Cello Sonata in C Major, Op 102, No 1; Bridge – Mélodie for Cello and Piano in C sharp minor, H 99; and Rachmaninov – Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19.

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Mitsuko Uchida (piano) will perform on Sunday, October 18, at 8pm (1hr) – again a concert available to view online for 48 hours.

Mitsuko Uchida is known as a peerless interpreter of the piano works of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven.

The full festival line-up is:

Friday, October 16, 8pm, London Mozart Players with Howard Shelley (piano).

Saturday, October 17, 8pm, Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason (cello & piano).

Sunday, October 18, 8pm, Mitsuko Uchida (piano).

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Monday, October 19, 8pm, Special Summer Concert: Harry Rylance, Vóreios Trio & Harry the Piano (repeat screening).

Tuesday, October 20, 8pm, Tasmin Little with John Lenehan (violin & piano).

Wednesday, October 21, 8pm Clare Teal & Trio (jazz). Thursday, October 22, 8pm MILOŠ (solo guitar).

Friday, October 23, 8pm, Patti Boulaye – Aretha & Me (jazz).

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Saturday, October 24, 12 noon, Joanna Trollope Mum & Dad; 8pm, Charles Owen with Katya Apekisheva (piano duo).

Sunday, October 25, 3pm David Nott War Doctor; 7pm, AN Wilson The Mystery of Charles Dickens.

Monday, October 26, 12 noon, Nicholas Coleridge Magazines, Museums and Selective Memories; 7pm, James Naughtie On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump.

Tuesday, October 27, 12 noon, Kate Fall The Gatekeeper; 7pm, An Evening with Michael Morpurgo.

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Wednesday, October 28, 12 noon, Vanessa Branson One Hundred Summers; 7pm, Anthony Horowitz Moonflower Murders.

Thursday, October 29, 12 noon, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason House of Music; 7pm, Lev Parikian Into the Tangled Bank/Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?

Friday, October 30, 12 noon, Jonathon Porritt Hope in Hell; 7pm Martin Bell War & Peacekeeping.

Saturday, October 31, 12 noon Kenneth Baker On Assassinations; 7pm, William Boyd Trio.

Sunday, November 1, 3pm, Ariana Neumann When Time Stood Still; 7pm, Robert McCrum Shakespearean.

Tickets on www.petworthfestival.org.uk.

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