2008-2009 Concerts

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Thursday 25 September 2008

Mahler Piano Quartet movement in A Minor

Mozart Piano Quartet in G Minor, K478

Dvořák Piano Quintet in A, Op.81

We are glad to welcome back one of our very favourite groups, who never disappoint. This programme, balancing classic and romantic piano quartets and quintets, is bound to be popular!

Thursday 23 October 2008

GOULD PIANO TRIO

ROBERT PLANE clarinet

Beethoven Piano Trio in C Minor, Op.1 no.3

Brahms Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114

Messiaen Quatuor pour la Fin de Temps (1941)

Trios by Beethoven and Brahms complement the moving work for clarinet quartet written by Messiaen whilst a prisoner of war in Germany. 2008 is the Centenary of his birth.

Thursday 13 November 2008

CARDUCCI QUARTET

Haydn Quartet in D, Op.20 no.4

Ravel Quartet in F (1902-03)

Mendelssohn Quartet in A, Op.13

This young Anglo-Irish quartet have been prize winners in no less than 7 International Chamber Music Competitions in the space of 5 years. The Haydn and Mendelssohn both mark bicentenaries; the death of the former and birth of the latter

Thursday 29 January 2009

STEVEN ISSERLIS baroque cello

MAGGIE COLE harpsichord

Our Baroque concert features a leading American harpsichordist partnering one of today’s greatest cellists in a programme of Bach, Handel – marking the 250^th anniversary of his death – and their contemporaries.

Handel Violin Sonata in G Minor, arr. for cello

Bach Suite no.3 in C, for solo cello

Bach Gamba Sonata no. 3 in G Minor,

arr. for cello

Scarlatti Violin Sonata in D Minor, arr. for cello

Handel Harpsichord Suite

Bach Gamba Sonata no. 2 in D, arr. for cello

Thursday 12 March 2009

DANTE STRING QUARTET

Purcell Chacony in G minor

Haydn Quartet in C, Op. 54 no.2

John McCabe Quartet no. 4 (1982)

Mendelssohn Capriccio in E Minor, Op.81 no.3

Haydn Quartet in G Minor (The Rider) Op. 74 no.3

One of the finest quartets of today will mark the 70^th birthday of our Vice-President John McCabe by including in their programme his 4th quartet – commissioned to mark the 250th anniversary of Haydn’s birth. We also mark the 350^th and 200^th birthdays of Purcell and of Mendelssohn respectively.

Thursday 7 May 2009

RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone

SUSIE ALLAN piano

Songs by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven and Wolf.

A welcome visit by a leading British baritone, a favourite on both concert and operatic stages world-wide, and his regular pianist, will end our season with a programme of works central to the lieder repertoire.