Corinne Marsh

Good news! During 2018 concert pianist and multi-instrumental recitalist Corinne Marsh is looking forward to three further colourful recitals as a guest artiste onboard cruises with Fred Olsen. The first cruise, M1821, leaves from Southampton on 23rd August abroad the beautiful Braemar and heads to France and the wine region of sunny Bordeaux. Initially they’ll sail to Lorient before heading down the Gironde and Garonne Rivers before heading to Bordeaux. On the return journey they head up the Seine for Rouen. Corinne is looking forward to revisiting this popular destination from the 2017 French River cruise. They return to Southampton on 6th October.

Then, on September 22nd Corinne will join the Black Watch at Liverpool for cruise W1821 which will set sail for Quebec. The ports include Killybegs in Ireland, St John’s in Newfoundland, and then several ports in Canada: Halifax, Charlottetown, Baie Comeau, Saguenay and Quebec where Corinne will then fly back to the UK on Saturday 6th October. The Black Watch will continue on to Montreal.

A Caribbean Christmas New Year Cruise then awaits in December. This is a fly cruise and Corinne will meet the ship in Bridgetown, Barbados. It will be a treat not to have to cruise across the Atlantic, especially in winter! This cruise, M1831, is back on the Braemar where Corinne will be adding some popular Christmas favourites to her eclectic recital programmes on piano, oboe, cor anglais and two saxophones. All being well, the airline company will oblige when it comes to the excessive luggage! The islands included in this tour are St Lucia, Grenada, Willemstad, Curaçao I. Netherlands Antilles, St Kitts, The Virgin Islands, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands, Philipsburg, St Maarten in Netherlands Antilles before heading back to Bridgetown in Barbados. They return to the UK on January 3rd 2019.

Corinne hopes to meet up with many old cruising friends and to making new ones onboard!

Good news! Corinne’s recently released CD of beautiful piano music recordings, Silver Moonbeams, is now available and they’re flying off the shelves. It makes an ideal Christmas gift for music lovers too. Copies can be ordered from classicalfanatical@me.com at £10 each plus £1.50 P&P (UK only. Other countries tbc)

Feedback….

The playing sounds full of character and rhythm and style – brava!  – Piers Lane

Truly, I’m loving every track: all with such clarity of touch and cleaness of tone. You’ve done brilliantly. Bravo!
It’s as hard to record a piano successfully as it is to play it – so firstly well done in selecting such an attractive range of music – so many favourites, all beautifully executed. But also bravo to your sound engineer and the Old Granary people….. it’s a true skill placing microphones in just perfect positions and balancing them so well: so as to create that lovely tone of yours that I have been enjoying so. Not too closely recorded (dry) nor too distantly either (wet). Perfect, undistorted tone. You must be very pleased and thankful – as we are, hearing this terrific recording of your piano playing. All captured here most successfully. –  Dr Nöel Tredinnick (Conductor)

 

Here’s a short preview of some of the recordings on Corinne’s latest album “Silver Moonbeams” which includes beautiful parlour music and song transcriptions.

The CD’s will be available to order at £10 each plus £1.50 P&P (international postage rates will be confirmed per order) directly from classicalfanatical@me.com or from the “Contact” page on this website. Please send an email stating the address to which you would like your order posted. Payment instructions will be sent via email and once payment has been received, the discs will be posted.

Digital tracks will also be available from 24th November 2017 for immediate download from iTunes, Amazon, GooglePlay, Emusica, Spotify, Medianet, Groove, 24-7  and many others. Happy listening!

 

Corinne is very excited to announce that her recently recorded CD, “Silver Moonbeams” will be released towards the end of November.

The album includes beautiful Parlour music written for the piano which she has recently uncovered whilst researching into this largely forgotten genre. The music includes Eolian Whispers by Charles Auchester, Variations on Beautiful Dreamer by Adolph Baumbach, The Robin’s Return and the Robin’s Departure by Leander Fischer, Silver Moonbeams by William Bibby and Joyful Bells by Charles Kinkel, as well as scores by Albert Ketèlbey and Scott Joplin. Also included are some heartwarming song transcriptions by Eric Coates and Amy Woodforde-Findern.

This disc presents great value for money as it contains over an hour of easy listening music. Tracks will be also be available online as individual downloads as well as in compact disc format. Details of where copies can be purchased will be announced soon.

Watch this space!

All were onboard the recently refurbished Fred Olsen cruise ship, the Black Watch on Wednesday 6th October 2017. It set sail from the port of Rosyth in Edinburgh at 5:30pm and headed south down the North Sea en route to the River Seine and the city of Rouen.

Corinne’s concerts were scheduled for the last two sea days on the return journey to Rosyth so she was able to make the most of the visits to the ports of Rouen on the River Seine, St. Peter Port in Guernsey, La Pallice for La Rochelle and Lorient.

The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen was definitely  a highlight as was the monument to Jeanne d’Arc with the beautiful, elegant cross that marked the place of the stake

Once again the audiences in the Neptune Theatre were treated to multi-instrumental performances of music in an array of styles played on piano, oboe, cor anglais, soprano and tenor saxophones.

The weather was pleasantly warm with an unusually calm Bay of Biscay on the way home. The Black Watch arrived in Rosyth at 6:30am on Saturday 14th October and all was well!

Fred Olsen’s cruise ship, the lovely Boudicca set sail from Liverpool on the 6th September 2017 on their “Glitz and Glamour Cruise of the French Riviera”. They visited the ports of Lisbon, Barcelona, Toulon, Nice, Cannes, Mahon and Cadiz before returning to Liverpool.

Corinne gave four multi-styled, multi-instrumental recitals in the Neptune Theatre. The programmes were well received and sparked many interesting conversations with guests over the music performed.

The Parlour Music included in the programmes was particularly well received and CD sales in the onboard shop proved to be a healthy sign of the successful reception the music received.

The ship returned to Liverpool on the 22nd September after 16 days in the warm Riviera Sunshine.

On the 6th September, Corinne sets sail from Liverpool on Fred Olsen’s cruise ship, the Boudicca. (D1721) This is a 16 day cruise heading to Lisbon, Barcelona, Toulon, Nice, Monaco, Mahon and Cadiz.   It returns to Liverpool on Friday 22nd September. Join us for another series of ‘Ebony, Ivory and a Touch of Bronze’  concerts and some spectacular glitzy and glamorous sightseeing if you can!

Corinne’s ‘Ebony, Ivory and A Touch of Bronze’ programme delighted the audience in the Burton Town Hall on Saturday 13th May 2017. They thoroughly enjoyed a fanciful and intriguingly varied programme of piano music which included the theme from the 1960’s film, The Apartment,  ‘Jealous `Lover’ by Charles Williams, Charles Auchester’s scintillating score, ‘Aeolian Whispers’, Carl Bohm’s ‘Salon Mazurka’ and William Bibby’s delightful ‘Silver Moonbeams’.  Jazz scores were played on the two saxes and much-loved songs from scores by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ennio Morricone and Rodgers & Hammerstein were played on the oboe and cor anglais.