Most regrettably, due to recent health issues, Pascal Rogé is reducing his workload and has withdrawn from the concert at Hellens on 18 July. The event is therefore cancelled. The box offices will contact those who have already booked to offer refunds.
We apologise for the disappointment this will cause but are letting you know that Pascal Rogé will be performing on Friday 17 July at the Festival Theatre in Great Malvern, should you wish to attend that event. Please see their website for programme and booking details here
Saturday 18 July 2026 at 7.30pm
The Great Barn, Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, HR8 2LY
The celebrated French pianist PASCAL ROGÉ comes to Hellens
EVENT
CANCELLED
The celebrated French pianist Pascal Rogé has performed in almost every major concert hall in the world and with every major orchestra across the globe, often collaborating with the most famous conductors. As a prolific recording artist, he has won countless prestigious awards. He is especially renowned for his performances of the music of his homeland, exemplifying as he does the finest in French pianism. In such repertoire, which provides the music for Pascal’s entire recital at Hellens, his playing is noted for its wonderful elegance and very real beauty.
‘he produces beautiful sounds and has that kind of poetry peculiar to the French at their most sensitive
’ Naxos
The recital opens with three charming, engaging miniatures by Francis Poulenc, full of lyricism and wit. The suite of five pieces which make up Ravel’s Miroirs follows the Poulenc. The musical impressions, which abound in local colour, cover the flickering of moths at night; sorrowful birds in a forest; the dangers of a ship on the ocean; a dawn song; and the sonority of the tolling of bells. The first half ends with the pictorial imagery of Debussy’s Estampes: the ‘engravings’ are of pagodas, an evening in Granada and raindrops in a garden. Book I of Debussy’s Preludes, comprising twelve self-contained evocative and atmospheric pieces, fills the second half: the subjects here include both a whispering and a terrifying wind; a melancholy winter landscape with footsteps in the snow; the legend of a submerged cathedral; and, most famously, ‘the girl with the flaxen hair’.
| Poulenc | Trois Novelettes |
|---|---|
| Miroirs | Miroirs |
| Debussy | Estampes |
| Debussy | Preludes Book 1 |
The Celebrated British Piano Duo
Benjamin Frith and Heidi Rolfe
Saturday 21 November 2026 at 5.30pm
The Great Barn, Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, HR8 2LY
Sunday 22 November 2026 at 3pm
The Lion Ballroom, Leominster HR6 8BT
We are delighted to welcome celebrated British pianists Benjamin Frith and his wife Heidi Rolfe to give ‘one piano four hands’ recitals at Hellens and the Lion Ballroom with a mixed programme of music ranging from an atmospheric work by John Ireland; a sublime Fantasie by Schubert; a most accessible new work, specially written for the duo by contemporary composer Martin Ellerby; and a blockbusting version of Rimsky-Korsakov’s famous Scheherazade arranged for four hands by the composer himself. More details soon.