CONCERT DIARY 2018 – 2019 sundays at 6:30pm

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Bringing the very best in classical chamber music to London audiences LONDON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY AT KINGS PLACE

The 2018/19 season of the London Chamber trios appearing include the Rosamunde, Music Society’s concerts presents another Aquinas and Rautio, while the period piano fine array of chamber music of all types. trio Trio Goya opening our season with one The Chilingirian Quartet with violist Prunella of our ‘Up-Close’ concerts in the intimate Pacey continue their cycle of Mozart’s setting of Hall Two. Baroque music is featured astonishing six string quintets, and we have by our inimitable cover stars Red Priest and further concerts in our association with the also with a concert of concertos in April’s Albion Quartet, including a concert exploring Bach Weekend. We host the Italian pianist the theme of ‘counterpoint’, and culminating Alessandro Vena, the choir Sonoro, and the in a performance of Walton’s . London Conchord Ensemble with a concert Other quartets appearing in the series include of beautiful music for wind and piano. the Brodsky, Dante, Allegri and Consone – In addition to our Kings Place programme, the latter joined by soprano Gillian Keith in a and as a new initiative, we have two concerts fascinating exploration of the relationship in collaboration with the Royal Over-Seas between the string quartet and Lieder. League in Piccadilly. There will be much to enjoy, and I look forward to seeing you in our One of our themes from January is Venus exciting new season. Unwrapped, a celebration of women in music as composers and performers. Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins perform music by Rebecca Clarke and Lili Boulanger, and we welcome Noriko Ogawa and the English Symphony Orchestra, whose Dr Peter Fribbins programme includes the exciting Partita for Artistic Director piano and strings by Czech composer Professor of Music, Vítězslava Kaprálová. Another theme this year is Edward Elgar, marking the centenary of ‘The acoustic of Hall One at some of his best-loved chamber works, with Kings Place is one of The best performances of the Piano Quintet (Allegri I have ever encountered Quartet with Martin Roscoe) and the Sonata anywhere in the world.’ for violin and piano (Philippe Graffin and Marisa Gupta). Martino Tirimo pianist 14 Oct 21 Oct

Trio Goya Albion Quartet

LCMS Up-Close in Hall Two Loss and Defiance

Mozart No. 3 in B flat, K502 Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Haydn Piano Trio No. 42 in E flat, Hob. XV:30 Op. 95 Quartetto serioso Beethoven Piano Trio No. 2 in G, Op. 1 No. 2 Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C, Op. 36 Dvořák String Quartet No. 8 in E, Op. 80 Maggie Cole fortepiano Kati Debretzeni violin Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Sebastian Comberti Emma Parker violin Rosalind Ventris viola Maggie Cole, Kati Debretzeni and Sebastian Nathaniel Boyd cello Comberti perform three Viennese classics on fine period instruments, including a beautiful Led by Tamsin Waley-Cohen, the Albion fortepiano by Paul McNulty, after Anton Walter, Quartet presents works reflecting on the 1795. These trios were written within themes of loss and defiance. Beethoven’s F ten years of each other – Mozart’s B flat Trio minor Quartet was composed in late 1810 was composed in 1786, Haydn’s E flat Trio during the Napoleonic War and Britten’s and Beethoven’s Op. 1 set were premiered in Second Quartet was written in 1945 amid 1795 at the Viennese home of their dedicatee, feelings of loss, relief and euphoria at the end Prince Lichnowski. of the Second World War. Dvořák’s Eighth Quartet is tinged with sadness and nostalgia, but also with defiance and strength. The third of the Albion Quartet’s thematic mini-cycle.

Tickets £18.50 – £14.50 Savers £9.50 LCMS Friends discount applies 4 Nov 11 Nov

London Conchord Ensemble Rosamunde Trio

LCMS Up-Close in Hall Two

Saint-Saëns Caprice on Danish and Russian Lili Boulanger D’un soir triste Airs for piano and wind trio, Op. 79 Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Beethoven Quintet in E flat for piano and Op. 67 winds, Op. 16 Casella Pagine di guerra for piano four-hands, Variations on ‘Là ci darem la mano’ from Don Op. 25 Giovanni, Wo28 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Respighi (arr. Pailthorpe) ‘The Adoration of Op. 66 the Magi’ from Trittico botticelliano Poulenc Sextet for piano and , Martino Tirimo piano FP 100 Ben Sayevich violin Daniel Veis cello Daniel Pailthorpe flute Emily Pailthorpe oboe The celebrated ensemble presents a Maximiliano Martin programme to mark the Armistice centenary. Andrea de Flammineis bassoon Music that takes us back to WWI is balanced Nicholas Korth horn with more transcendent music of beauty and Julian Milford piano hope. Lili Boulanger’s elegiac trio from 1917–18 acts as a prelude to Shostakovich’s powerful The London Conchord Ensemble is fast trio, written in the midst of WWII and completed becoming known as one of London’s finest in 1944. Pianists Martino Tirimo and Atsuko ensembles. This concert features its pianist and Kawakami play Casella’s Pages of War – a short wind players in two cornerstones of the but dramatic work dating from 1915. chamber wind and piano repertoire – Beethoven’s early masterpiece from the 1790s and Poulenc’s ever-popular Sextet. As well as music by Saint-Saëns and Beethoven we also hear a chamber arrangement of one of Respighi’s most beautiful pieces. Tickets £18.50 – £14.50 Savers £9.50 LCMS Friends discount applies. 18 Nov

Brodsky Quartet

In Time of War Part of Time Unwrapped

Crumb Black Angels The Brodsky Quartet bring together responses Brubeck Regret to wars from the last hundred years, from the Schulhoff String Quartet No. 1 First Quartet of Erwin Schulhoff, who ended Karen Tanaka At the grave of Beethoven his life in a concentration camp, and Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 Shostakovich’s response to the Allied bombing in C minor, Op. 110 that devastated Dresden, to George Crumb’s iconic protest against the Vietnam War, Black Daniel Rowland violin Angels. Karen Tanaka’s work recalls the Balkan Ian Belton violin conflict, while Dave Brubeck’sRegret is a Paul Cassidy viola poignant reflection on the 9/11 attacks. Jacqueline Thomas cello

Tickets £39.50 – £19.50 Savers £9.50 LCMS Friends discount applies 2 Dec 13 Jan

Allegri Quartet Philippe Graffin, Roger with Martin Roscoe Chase, Amy Norrington & Marisa Gupta

Haydn String Quartet in C, Op. 54 No. 2, Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82 Hob. III:57 Peter Fribbins Softly in the Dusk… Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 (after DH Lawrence) in F minor, Op. 80 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D, Op. 102 No. 2 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15

Martyn Jackson violin Philippe Graffinviolin Rafael Todes violin Roger Chase viola Dorothea Vogel viola Amy Norrington cello Vanessa Lucas-Smith cello Marisa Gupta piano Martin Roscoe piano French violinist Philippe Graffin, who has Autumn 2018 marks the centenary of Elgar’s been associated with Elgar’s music for Piano Quintet, which provides the culmination many years, tonight celebrates the of this varied concert. Before it comes centenary of the beautiful Violin Sonata. Mendelssohn’s passionate and stormy F minor He’s joined by distinguished musical friends Quartet – the last work he finished before his to perform music by Elgar, Beethoven, death in 1847. The concert begins with Haydn’s Fauré and Peter Fribbins’s piano trio Softly beautiful C major Quartet from the Op. 54 set, in the Dusk…, inspired by D.H. Lawrence’s a sunny opening movement followed by one of haunting poem, Piano. the most passionate and intense slow movements he ever composed. 16 Dec

Sonoro

Trad. arr. Michael Higgins Tomorrow shall be Sonoro, one of the UK’s most impressive my dancing day chamber choirs, has won acclaim for its Becky McGlade In the bleak midwinter exquisitely balanced sound and passionate Vaughan Williams Fantasia on singing. Its return to Kings Place features Christmas Carols festive choral favourites, traditional texts set John Rutter Shepherd’s Pipe Carol anew, and beautifully crafted arrangements of Warlock Bethlehem Down familiar melodies including Vaughan Williams’s Sally Beamish In the Stillness of a Church Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Howard Skempton Adam lay y-bounden Kerry Andrew Out of the orient crystal skies Gruber arr. Michael Higgins Silent Night

Michael Higgins piano Neil Ferris conductor 27 Jan

Tamsin Waley-Cohen & Huw Watkins

Venus and the Violin Part of Venus Unwrapped

Lili Boulanger Deux Morceaux Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor, L148 Clarke Violin Sonata Beach Three Pieces Op. 40 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96

Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Huw Watkins piano

Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins present Rebecca Clarke’s little-known early violin sonata alongside music by the French composers she admired, Debussy and Lili Boulanger. Beethoven’s warmly lyrical sonata is prefaced by music by Amy Beach, a composer with an international reputation in her own lifetime and first President of the Society of American Women Composers.

‘Waley-Cohen is a violinist of fearless intensity’ The Guardian 3 Feb 24 Feb

Chilingirian Quartet Consone Quartet with Prunella Pacey with Gillian Keith

Mozart Quintets – Concert 2

Mozart String Quintet No. 2 in C minor, K406 Schubert String Quartet No. 4 in C, D46 Beethoven String Quintet in C, Op. 29 Schubert (arr. Randle) Lieder incl. Die Mozart String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K516 abgeblühte Linde, Der Jüngling an der Quelle, Das Mädchen, Die Männer sind Méchant, Die Levon Chilingirian violin Liebe hat gelogen, and Du bist die Ruh Ronald Birks violin Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Lieder Susie Mészáros viola incl. Frage (‘Ist es wahr?’), Wartend, Stephen Orton cello Frühlingsglaube, Verlust with Prunella Pacey viola Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 The Chilingirian Quartet are joined by Prunella Pacey to explore two more of Mozart’s six string Agata Daraskaite violin quintets with viola – the dark, dramatic C minor Magdalena Loth-Hill violin and G minor quintets. They are paired with Elitsa Bogdanova viola another famous example of the genre – George Ross cello Beethoven’s C major quintet from 1801, thought with Gillian Keith soprano to have inspired Schubert’s own String Quintet in the same key. The Consone Quartet’s mission is to explore and recreate the soundworld of the classical and early Romantic string quartet repertoire on period instruments. In this intriguing programme they are joined by soprano Gillian Keith to present Lieder by Schubert and the Mendelssohns that have influenced famous string quartets, given added richness in new arrangements by tenor and composer Tom Randle. 17 Mar 24 Mar

Alessandro Vena Dante Quartet

LCMS Up-Close in Hall Two

Bach-Busoni Chorale Prelude Haydn String Quartet in G, Op. 33 No. 5 on Ich ruf zu dir, BWV639 Hob. III:4 Debussy Pour le piano, L95 Howells String Quartet No. 3 Chopin Nocturnes in B flat minor No. 1, In Gloucestershire Op. 9, & C sharp minor, Op. posth. Beethoven String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 59 No. 2 Razumovsky Franck Prelude, Fugue and Variation, Op. 18 Chopin Étude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12 Krysia Osostowicz violin Revolutionary Oscar Perks violin Waltz in A minor, Op. posth. Yuko Inoue viola Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53Heroic Richard Jenkinson cello Rachmaninov Études-Tableaux in E flat, Op. 33 No. 7 Haydn’s witty, urbane Quartet in G from his Études-Tableaux in A minor, Op. 39 No. 6 Op. 33 set, nicknamed How Do You Do after its Little Red Riding Hood opening musical gesture, begins the Dante Quartet’s varied programme. It’s followed by Alessandro Vena piano an altogether more serious work, the third quartet by Herbert Howells, written in the early A prolific recording artist on the Sheva label, 1920s and permeated with the memory of war. Italian pianist Alessandro Vena makes his UK Beethoven’s Second Razumovsky Quartet, with debut with a programme including favourite its extraordinary Russian-themed Scherzo, works for solo piano, among them Chopin rounds off the concert. Nocturnes and Études, two of Rachmaninov’s Études-Tableaux, Debussy’s Pour le piano, Franck and the Bach-Busoni Chorale Prelude on ‘Ich ruf zu dir’.

Tickets £18.50 – £14.50 Savers £9.50 LCMS Friends discount applies. 31 Mar 7 Apr

Aquinas Piano Trio Albion Quartet

Schumann Piano Trio Cycle – Concert 2 LCMS Up-Close in Hall Two

Haydn Piano Trio in E, Hob. XV:28 JS Bach Contrapunctus 1 from Simon Rowland-Jones Holkham Beach The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F, Op. 80 Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5 (Hob. III:35) Ruth Rogers violin Schumann String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. Katherine Jenkinson cello 41 No. 1 Martin Cousin piano JS Bach Contrapunctus 9 from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 The Aquinas Trio focus on the three piano trios Walton String Quartet No. 2 in A minor of Robert Schumann, putting each with a Haydn trio and a contemporary work. In this second Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin concert they pair Schumann’s Trio No. 2 in F Emma Parker violin and Haydn’s E major trio, with a piano trio by Rosalind Ventris viola Simon Rowland-Jones, inspired by the endless Nathaniel Boyd cello white sands of Holkham beach in Norfolk. The theme of counterpoint allows the Albion Quartet to explore four very different composers’ treatments, starting with excerpts from Bach’s great Art of Fugue, including Haydn and Schumann and finishing with William Walton’s 1947 string quartet, which is full of taut and gritty counterpoint, especially in the first movement’s four-part fugue.

Tickets £18.50 – £14.50 Savers £9.50 LCMS Friends discount applies. 14 Apr

Feinstein Ensemble

Double Concertos Part of Bach Weekend 2019

Telemann Concerto for recorder and This Bach Weekend 2019 concert includes viola da gamba in A minor Bach’s two most famous double concertos, as Vivaldi Cello Concerto in B minor, RV 424 well as works by other masters of the genre. JS Bach Concerto in C minor for oboe Vivaldi’s concertos provided Bach with the and violin, BWV 1060a inspiration for his own masterpieces, while Telemann Recorder Concerto in C Telemann also took to the genre, composing Vivaldi Concerto for two forward-looking works that deserve to be in G minor, RV531 better known. JS Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 *Please note this concert begins at 7pm

Martin Feinstein director/solo recorder Tickets £39.50 – £19.50 James Eastaway oboe Savers £9.50 Miki Takahashi violin LCMS Friends discount applies Sarah Moffatt violin Christopher Suckling cello Jonathan Rees cello/viola da gamba Feinstein Ensemble 28 Apr

English Symphony Orchestra with Noriko Ogawa & Kenneth Woods Part of Venus Unwrapped

Martinů Partita for strings Mozart Piano Concerto No. 13 in C, K415 Kaprálová Partita for piano and strings, Op. 20 Dvořák Serenade for strings in E, Op. 22

Noriko Ogawa and the English Symphony Orchestra showcase music by three celebrated Czech composers, Dvořák, Martinů and Vítězslava Kaprálová, an exceptional musician who died of tuberculosis at 25, before her composing and conducting talent was fully recognised. Her distinctive style, blending impressionism with Czech modernism, can be heard in the Partita for Piano and Strings, written in 1940.

Tickets £34.50 – £16.50 Savers £9.50 LCMS Friends discount applies 5 May 12 May 19 May

Red Priest Rautio Piano Trio Chilingirian with Robin Ashwell Quartet with Truly, Madly, Deeply Prunella Pacey Mozart Quintets – Concert 3

JS Bach Brandenburg Beethoven Piano Trio in D, Mozart String Quintet No. 5 in Concerto No. 5 in D, Op. 70 No. 1 Ghost D, K593 BWV 1050 Hiller Piano Trio No. 6 Brahms String Quintet No. 2 Vivaldi Concerto in B minor in C minor, Op. 186 in G, Op. 111 for four violins, RV580 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 Mozart String Quintet No. 6 in Albinoni Oboe Concerto in in G minor, Op. 25 E flat, K614 D minor, Op. 9 No. 2 Tartini Violin Sonata Jane Gordon violin Levon Chilingirian violin in G minor The Devil’s Trill Victoria Simonsen cello Ronald Birks violin plus works by Marini, Jan Rautio piano Susie Mészáros viola Locatelli, Forqueray with Robin Ashwell viola Stephen Orton cello and Sanz with Prunella Pacey viola The Rautio Piano Trio’s concert Piers Adams recorders of 19th-century German The Chilingirian Quartet are Adam Summerhayes violin masterworks begins with joined by Prunella Pacey for Angela East cello Beethoven’s famous Ghost the last of Mozart’s six string David Wright harpsichord Trio and closes with Brahms’s quintets with viola – the final G minor Piano Quartet and its quintets in D and E flat. They After their recent foray into exuberant Hungarian-inspired are paired with Brahms’s gypsy music with the Baroque Finale. In between comes a G major quintet, the second Bohemians project, Red Priest work by Ferdinand Hiller, a of his two string quintets, return to their roots with a pupil of Hummel and a prolific composed towards the end programme of Baroque composer who knew many of of his career in 1890 and classics, arranged and the famous German musicians intended to be his last performed with the quartet’s of his age. chamber work. trademark energy, virtuosity and a touch of Baroque-style madness. Tickets Admission is £29.50–£14.50, unless otherwise stated, with a limited number of £9.50 Online Savers. A £3.00 booking fee will be applied to all ticket bookings. An additional fee of £1.50 is applied if you wish to receive your tickets by post. Fees do not apply to bookings or ticket collections made in person at the Box Office. Programmes can be ordered in advance at a cheaper rate. The London Chamber Music Society Ltd. is a registered charity Friends Tickets promoting high-quality live Friends are entitled to a 25% discount on all chamber music. Charity No. 1164397 ticket prices, excluding Online Savers, and also Company No. 962483 pay no booking fee. Tickets can be obtained online or by telephone in advance or on the LCMS Sundays are promoted by night at the Box Office, subject to availability the London Chamber Music and on production of the current LCMS Society in partnership with the Friends membership card. Friends discounted Kings Place Music Foundation. tickets cannot be purchased for, or used by, Patrons non-Friends. Sir Jeremy Dixon Julia Somerville How To Become A Friend President For just £25, a Friend can attend concerts Levon Chilingirian, OBE throughout the 2018/19 season at a greatly reduced price. Friends forms can be obtained Artistic Director Professor Peter Fribbins on Sunday evenings from the LCMS desk at [email protected] Kings Place or on our website londonchambermusic.org.uk Treasurer Leon Levy Box Office + 44 (0)20 8349 3103 To book online, 24 hours a day, go to [email protected] kingsplace.co.uk Administrator To book by phone, call Karolina Ozadowicz + 44 (0)20 7520 1490 + 44 (0)7598 899 611 Open 12–5pm when there is no evening event; [email protected] 12pm–8pm (or 30 mins after start of evening londonchambermusic.org.uk performance) otherwise; closed Bank Holidays. London Chamber Music Society Ltd. Student Tickets The Music Base, Kings Place Free membership of the LCMS is offered to 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG students up to the age of 22 on production of Information in this concert diary was a valid Student Card. This gives the opportunity correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists of purchasing tickets for LCMS concerts at the and to vary programmes if necessary. Friends price. Alternatively, full-time students up to the age of 25 may purchase a stand-by ticket on the day of the concert for only £5 on production of a valid Student Card. Concert Diary London Chamber Music Society 2018–19 Season Partners

14 Oct 3 Feb The London Chamber Music Society Trio Goya Chilingirian Quartet is pleased to collaborate with the with Prunella Pacey 21 Oct following partners: Albion Quartet 24 Feb Loss and Defiance Consone Quartet with Gillian Keith Kings Place Music Foundation 4 Nov Middlesex University, London London Conchord 17 Mar Ensemble Alessandro Vena Royal Over-Seas League, Piccadilly Park Lane Group 11 Nov 24 Mar Rosamunde Piano Trio Dante Quartet Hertfordshire Festival of Music Northern Chords Festival, Newcastle 18 Nov 31 Mar Brodsky Quartet Aquinas Piano Trio Presteigne Festival, Powys, Wales Ulverston International Festival In Time of War 7 Apr Part of Time Unwrapped 2018 Albion Quartet Wimbledon International 2 Dec Music Festival 14 Apr Allegri String Quartet with Martin Roscoe Feinstein Ensemble Double Concertos 16 Dec Part of Bach Weekend 2019 Sonoro 28 Apr 13 Jan English Symphony Philippe Graffin, Roger Orchestra Chase, Amy Norrington with Noriko Ogawa & Marisa Gupta & Kenneth Woods 27 Jan 5 May Tamsin Waley-Cohen Red Priest & Huw Watkins Truly, Madly, Deeply ELSEWHERE in Venus and the Violin london Part of Venus Unwrapped 2019 12 May Rautio Piano Trio 25 Nov with Robin Ashwell Chilingirian Quartet & Timothy Orpen 19 May at Royal Over-Seas League, Piccadilly Chilingirian Quartet with Prunella Pacey 17 Feb Raphael Wallfisch & John York at Royal Over-Seas League, Piccadilly See LCMS website for details: londonchambermusic.org.uk

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