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City Halls : Recital Room

This lecture was first given in 2009 but is now revised, with new music and the latest news from CERN. It links Einstein’s favourite instrument, the violin, with many of the concepts of modern physics he founded. Relativity, E=mc2, Einstein’s role in understanding the atom and the atomic bomb, lead into an outline of the “Standard Model” of particle physics and cosmology. This outstandingly successful theory has many problems which will be addressed by the Large Hadron Collider. The lecture describes this machine, a technological marvel, shows how the experiments can reconstruct the conditions of the Big Bang and what they might find. The lecture is punctuated by interludes of music related to Einstein.

Jack Liebeck has established a reputation as one of Europe’s most exciting young violinists. His debut CD was critically acclaimed and nominated for a Classical Brit award; he now records exclusively for Sony Classical and his CD of the Dvorak Concerto, Sonata and Sonatina with Katya Apekisheva led to the award of the Classical Brit in 2010 for Best Young Classical Performer. Jack plays the ‘Ex-Wilhelmj’ Guadagnini dated 1785.

Katya Apekisheva has won many awards, including the 1996 London Philharmonic/Pioneer Young Soloist of the year and was a prizewinner at the Leeds International Piano Competition. Her long-term collaboration with Jack Liebeck has been recognized with a Classical Brit Award and her own debut solo CD of Grieg piano music was critically acclaimed.

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