Patrick Lambert's lecture | Martinů in His Time

9 February 2017, 7.30 pm
Highgate Library Civic and Cultural Centre in The Children's Corner, Croftdown Road, GB

Patrick Lambert's lecture:
Martinů in His Time – The Recorded Legacy
A Biographical Survey of the Early Recordings (his book also available in eshop)

The writer, broadcaster and lecturer on music Patrick Lambert worked for BBC Radio 3 as a music producer for 25 years, first in the Gramophone Department and finally in the Music Department as a senior producer. He has a special interest in Czech music, particularly Janáček and Martinů .His conference papers on both composers have been published and in the early 1980s he devised a ground breaking programme about Janáček’s “Intimate Letters” String Quartet involving the Medici Quartet and actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company, which received its premiere at the Wigmore Hall. More recently, he has written a series of articles for the Czech music magazine Harmonie. In his talk, he will be giving listeners the opportunity to hear some of the rare and historic recordings discussed in his new book.