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LCMS_Spr-Sum2015_leaflet_v2.indd 1-3 19/02/2015 15:26 22 MARCH 8 MARCH 12 APRIL ROSAMUNDE 3 MAY LORRAINE 19 APRIL ENSEMBLE PIANO TRIO RUSSIAN MIDTVEST MCASLAN MOZART AND THE CHILINGIRIAN VIRTUOSI OF CARL NIELSEN 150TH FRENCH – CONCERT II & VICTOR QUARTET BIRTHDAY CONCERT 29 MARCH SANGIORGIO EUROPE WITH PHILIP DE 15 MARCH Brahms 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117 (VIOLIN & PIANO) & GUESTS Nielsen Woodwind Quintet, Op. 43 Ravel Sonata for violin and cello VICKY GROOTE (CELLO) Beethoven Trio in B flat MARTINU Mozart Piano Trio in G, K564 YANNOULA Beethoven Sonata for violin and Strauss Metamorphosen for strings for , cello and piano, Lalo Piano Trio No. 3 in A minor, piano in F, Op. 24 Spring Haydn String Quartet in B flat, 26 APRIL QUARTET WITH & GEORGE Arturo Cuellar Fantasy on Russian Op. 11 Gassenhauer Op. 26 Finzi Elegy for violin and piano, Op. 55 No. 3 Themes for trumpet and strings Julius Röntgen Trio for flute, OLGA VINOKUR LAZARIDIS Op. 22 Beethoven String Quartet TRIO VAN Yuri Zhislin Sketches for strings oboe and bassoon in G, (PIANO) The celebrated Rosamunde Trio (TWO PIANOS) Brahms Scherzo from F-A-E Sonata in F minor, Op. 95 Serioso BEETHOVEN (World premiere) continues their six-concert series Op. 86 (excerpts) Debussy Sonata for violin and Schubert String Quintet in C, D.956 Shostakovich Concerto for piano, Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 exploring the relationship between Brahms Sonata for two pianos piano in G minor Beethoven Piano Trio in G, trumpet and strings, Op. 35 Op. 15 The Kreutzer Sonata Mozart’s chamber music and later (before Piano Quintet in F minor, Saint-Saëns Sonata for violin and A purely Viennese programme from Op. 1 No. 2 (or Piano Concerto No. 1) Shostakovich Piano Quintet French 19th-century music that Op. 35; transcr. by the composer) piano in D minor, Op. 75 the wonderful Chilingirian Quartet. Peter Fribbins Piano Trio To mark the 150th anniversary of Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat draws upon his unique classical style Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B flat, They start with Haydn’s B flat Brahms Piano Trio in B, Op. 8 Yuri Zhislin violin/director the birth of Danish composer of re§ nement, taste and pathos. Op. 133 (transcr. Beethoven) Scottish born violinist Lorraine Quartet, dedicated to the violinist Sergei Nakariakov trumpet 4 OCTOBER Carl Nielsen, we welcome one of The celebrated Czech quartet This second concert features Lalo’s McAslan and Italian-Australian Johann Tost. Beethoven’s Op. 95 The Austrian Trio Van Beethoven Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in Maria Meerovitch piano 2015–2016 SEASON Denmark’s most eminent chamber perform Janácˇek’s highly personal captivating Third Piano Trio from C minor, Op. 67 (transcr. Czerny) pianist Victor Sangiorgio present an from his middle period is highly makes its LCMS debut with two groups, Ensemble MidtVest. and expressive § rst quartet 1880 intertwined with hauntingly inspiringly diverse programme that dramatic in contrast as the minor youthful works by their compatriots. A colourful programme that starts OPENING CONCERT As well as Nielsen’s wind quintet, composed in 1923 and inspired by beautiful melodies and Mozart’s last A simply unmissable programme starts with Beethoven’s much-loved key casts shadows, especially Beethoven’s G major Piano Trio is with Strauss’s Metamorphosen, WIHAN the ensemble performs some Tolstoy’s controversial novella Piano Trio in G major, composed in that celebrates the art of piano Spring Sonata, abundantly full of on the restless third movement, the gentler middle child in the composed during the closing wonderful music by Julius Röntgen The Kreutzer Sonata. They are joined 1788 – the year that saw his seminal transcription. Vicky Yannoula and graceful melodies. Finzi’s lyrical which gained the work its nickname composer’s § rst opus of three piano months of World War II, followed QUARTET – perhaps a new name for some: by the American-Russian pianist masterworks including last three George Lazaridis will § rst tackle two Elegy follows, contrasting with the Serioso. The second half sees a trios, and remains as one of the by two new works: Sketches by 30TH ANNIVERSARY born in Leipzig in 1855, his late Olga Vinokur in the quintet by symphonies and a String Trio. The monumental chamber works from volcanic Brahms’s Scherzo from the delightful reunion of the Chilingirians most serene works that he ever the ensemble’s musical director, CONCERT nineteenth-century voice is full of Shostakovich – composed in the delightful programme is complete the pens of Brahms and Beethoven: F-A-E Sonata, which was written with their recently retired founding wrote. Brahms’s B major Trio from Yuri Zhislin, and Fantasy on the warmth and lyricism of Brahms midst of the Second World War – with Ravel’s unconventional Sonata the F minor Piano Quintet and the as a giª to violinist Joseph Joachim. member, eminent cellist Philip 1889 is the revised version of a Russian Themes by Colombian Mozart String Quartet in G, K.387 and his German contemporaries. and Schumannʼs ever-popular for violin and cello written as a Grosse Fuge, both transcribed by The entirely French second half de Groote. They join forces much earlier attempt dating back to composer Arturo Cuellar. All Schubert String Quartet in A minor Ensemble MidtVest complete their quintet from 1842, a piano chamber contribution to a special Debussy their respective composers. juxtaposes a wartime sonata from for the rendition of a Schubertian 1854, and remains the only work players return to the stage for Rosamunde programme with Beethoven’s work famously not premiered by his commemorative supplement for The second half will o“ er more treats Debussy, his last major composition, masterpiece, the timeless C major that exists today in two published Shostakovich’s witty Concerto, Beethoven String Quartet ever-popular ‘Gassenhauer’ trio, and wife Clara, because she was unwell, La Revue musicale, and the Op. 117 in the form of Czerny’s masterful with Saint-Saëns’s darkly passionate Quintet, which last year received versions. Flanked by these is Peter which quotes and parodies several in A minor Op. 132 the passionate piano trio by Czech but by his friend Mendelssohn, Intermezzi, one of Brahms’s most transcription of an all-time favourite First Violin Sonata, echoing the honour of being the No. 1 Fribbins’ First Piano Trio, premiered works of his and others, including romantic master Bedrˇich Smetana. who stepped in at the last moment. popular late piano output. – Beethoven’s Fiª h Symphony. Beethoven’s Kreutzer in structure. ‘Chamber Classic’ as voted by you. in Vienna in 2004. Beethoven’s Appassionata. ON SALE 27 MAY 2015

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