Annual Birthday Concert

The Rudolf Kempe Annual Birthday Concert of 2014 – Programme IV of the Society’s Songs of Apollo word and music season in Stratford-upon-Avon – celebrated the anniversary of Richard Strauss (described on the poster as his centenary), the composer most closely associated with Kempe. Piano works, Lieder and chamber music by Strauss were performed by members of the Rudolf Kempe Society International Young Artists Platform, with poetry and biographical notes read by the actor Clifford Rose. The concert took place on Sunday 15 June 2014 at 7.30 pm at the Kempe Studio at The Muses, 58 Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon. It was given in aid of the Rudolf Kempe Society International Young Artists Platform.

Performers

• Laetitia Spitzer-Grimaldi – soprano
• Titus Maack – cello
• Ammiel Bushakevitz – piano
• Clifford Rose – poetry and biographical notes

Programme

• Richard Strauss – piano works, Lieder and chamber music
• Poetry and biographical notes on Strauss, read by Clifford Rose

About the programme

Every June the Society marked Rudolf Kempe’s birthday (14 June 1910) with a concert at The Muses. Kempe was one of the great Strauss conductors of his time, and in 2014 the birthday concert was given over entirely to Strauss’s music, played by the young musicians of the Society’s own Young Artists Platform.