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4pm - 5pm Carole Nash Recital Room 7.30pm - 9.10pm RNCM Concert 1.30pm - 1.50pm Carole Nash 2pm - 4.10pm RNCM Concert Hall 4.30pm - 5.30pm RNCM Concert 4pm - 4.40pm RNCM Lecture Theatre 4pm - 5.10pm RNCM Concert Hall Hall Recital Room Hall The Tiger Who Came My Country 2 The Lady in Number 6 Dvořák Quartets 3 Talich Quartet Lunchtime Dvořák Quartets 2 Film Screening to Tea Bedřich Smetana Šárka from Má Antonín Dvořák String Quartet with Jeremy Young Lamentation vlast (1875) Antonín Dvořák String Quartet Kathryn Williams collaborates The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved No 14 Op 105 (1895) Josef Suk Piano Quartet Op 1 (1891) No 9 in D minor Op 34 (1877) with Project Jam Sandwich and the Bedřich Smetana String Quartet Eldad Diamant New work My Life tells the story of Alice Antonín Dvořák String Quartet Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet Antonín Dvořák String Quartet children of Martenscroft Nursery No 1 ‘From my Life’ (1876) Jan Dismas Zelenka Lamentation 1 Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest No 13 Op 106 (1895) No 1 Op 5 (1872) No 12 in F major Op 96 School and Children’s Centre in Leoš Janáček String Quartet for Good Friday Holocaust survivor. She discussed the Bedřich Smetana Z českých luhů ‘American’ (1893) Tickets £9 Hulme to bring to life Judith Kerr’s No 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (1923) importance of music, laughter, and Enter the unique and highly-coloured a hájů (From Bohemia’s Fields and Concessions available The Tiger Who Came to Tea with Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet Tickets £9 how to have an optimistic outlook Groves) from Má vlast (1875) original songs written by the group No 2 in A major Op 81 (1887) soundworld of Jan Dismas Zelenka Concessions available on life. Herz-Sommer (1903 – 2014) 0910am - 11.45am RNCM Concert Hall Piano Quintet 11 with his six extraordinary settings of Zdeněk Fibich died at age 110, one week before the and prepared by the children in an Tickets £17 10am - 12pm Carole Nash Recital Room the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Written Op 42 (1893) Oscar ceremony. 5.30pm - 6.30pm RNCM Theatre engaging and enthusiastic style. This Concessions available Dvořák Revisited in 1722 for varied instrumental featuring Zelkova Quartet and is an RNCM Engage event. Tickets £12 A further showing will take place on Dvořák’s Dumky Trio Dvořák Piano Trios groupings with solo voice, they make Concessions available Sunday 11 January. Christopher Rowland Petr Prause Free admission, no ticket required up a beautiful and highly emotional Piano Trio No 1 9.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Antonín Dvořák cycle, all too rarely performed. Free admission, no ticket required International Masterclass Op 21 (1875) Antonín Dvořák Serenade for Wind with Guarneri Trio Prague Instruments Op 44 (1878) Slavonic Dances Free admission, no ticket required Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio No 2 4pm - 4.40pm RNCM Lecture Theatre Op 26 (1876) Antonín Dvořák String Sextet in For Piano Duo Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio No 4 RNCM Theatre A major Op 48 (1878) The Lady in Number 6 5.45pm - 6.30pm Op 90 ‘Dumky’ (1891) Tickets £9 Antonín Dvořák String Quintet Antonín Dvořák Slavonic Dances Concessions available No 2 in G major Op 77 (1888) Film Screening Op 46 (1878) Janáček Free admission, no ticket required Antonín Dvořák Slavonic Dances The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved Leoš Janáček Concertino (1925) Tickets £9 Op 72 (1886) Concessions available My Life tells the story of Alice Leoš Janáček Mládí (Youth) (1924) 5.30pm - 6.10pm RNCM Lecture 11am - 12pm RNCM Concert Hall Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest Tickets £5 Theatre Holocaust survivor. She discussed the Concessions available Tickets £9 Concessions available importance of music, laughter, and Terezin 12.15pm - 1.20pm RNCM Concert Hall The Lady in Number 6 how to have an optimistic outlook Gideon Klein String Trio (1944) Film Screening on life. Herz-Sommer (1903 – 2014) Hans Krása Three Songs (1943) Notos Quartet Carole Nash died at age 110, one week before the 5.45pm - 6.30pm Pavel Haas Four Songs on Chinese The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved RNCM Waverley Junior Recital Room Oscar ceremony. Poetry (1944) My Life tells the story of Alice Fellows in Chamber Music Viktor Ullmann String Quartet No 3 Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest Further showings take place on the Talk 2 with Graham Holocaust survivor. She discussed the Bohuslav Martinů Piano Quartet Op 46 (1943) afternoons of Saturday 10 January, importance of music, laughter, and No 1 H 287 (1942) Melville-Mason and Sunday 11 January. Tickets £9 how to have an optimistic outlook Antonín Dvořák Piano Quartet in In advance of a performance by his Concessions available on life. Herz-Sommer (1903 – 2014) E flat major Op 87 (1889) Free admission, no ticket required friends the Guarneri Trio Prague, died at age 110, one week before the Tickets £9 Graham Melville-Mason speaks of his Oscar ceremony. Concessions available own relationship with Czech music. 12.15pm - 12.45pm RNCM Theatre 5.30pm - 6.30pm RNCM Theatre Free admission, no ticket required 1010am - 12.15pm RNCM Concert Hall Free admission, no ticket required Diary of One Who La Revue de Cuisine 1.30pm - 1.50pm Carole Nash Martinů Bohuslav Martinů La Revue de Carole Nash Recital Recital Room Disappeared 7pm - 7.20pm Bohuslav Martinů Serenade 7pm - 7.20pm Carole Nash Recital Cuisine H 161 (1927) Room Room Lunchtime Leoš Janáček Diary of One Who No 1 H 217 (1932) Tickets £5 Disappeared (1919) Evening Lamentation Lamentation Bohuslav Martinů Serenade Evening Lamentation Concessions available Tickets £9 No 3 H 218 (1932) John Uren New Work Michael Hope New work Concessions available Bohuslav Martinů Quartet for Jonny Bates New work Jan Dismas Zelenka Lamentation 2 Jan Dismas Zelenka Lamentation 1 clarinet, horn, cello and side drum Jan Dismas Zelenka Lamentation 2 1.30pm - 1.50pm Carole Nash for Easter Eve for Maundy Thursday H 139 (1924) for Good Friday Recital Room Bohuslav Martinů String Sextet Our complete Zelenka Lamentations 5.30pm - 6.30pm Carole Nash Enter the unique and highly-coloured H 224 (1932) Our complete Zelenka Lamentations are an extra offering as part of the Recital Room Lunchtime soundworld of Jan Dismas Zelenka Bohuslav Martinů Trio for flute, are an extra offering as part of the Lamentation Festival, for those keen to hear even with his six extraordinary settings of Talk by Graham cello and piano H 300 (1944) Festival, for those keen to hear even more music during scheduled meal the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Written Bohuslav Martinů Serenade for more music during scheduled meal Aaron Breeze New work times. in 1722 for varied instrumental Melville-Mason two clarinets, violin, viola and cello times. Jan Dismas Zelenka Lamentation 1 Free admission, no ticket required groupings with solo voice, they make H 334 (1951) Ardent promoter of Czech and Free admission, no ticket required for Easter Eve up a beautiful and highly emotional Bohuslav Martinů Musique de cycle, all too rarely performed. Slovak music in Great Britain, as Chambre No 1 H 376 (1959) Enter the unique and highly-coloured well as English music in the Czech soundworld of Jan Dismas Zelenka 7.30pm - 9.30pm RNCM Concert Free admission, no ticket required Republic, musicologist Graham Tickets £12 7.30pm - 9.10pm RNCM Concert with his six extraordinary settings of Hall Concessions available Melville-Mason played a vital role Hall the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Written in promoting Czech music and its in 1722 for varied instrumental Pavel Haas Quartet 2pm - 3.30pm RNCM Concert Hall performers in Britain during his three Guarneri Trio Prague groupings with solo voice, they make with Delia Stevens decades at BBC Radio 3. He brings 11am - 1pm Carole Nash Recital Luboš Fišer Piano Trio (1978) up a beautiful and highly emotional My Country 1 his fascinating insight to the RNCM Room cycle, all too rarely performed. Bedřich Smetana String Quartet Chamber Music Festival. Bedřich Smetana Piano Trio No 2 (1883) Bedřich Smetana Vyšehrad from Janáček’s Op 15 (1855) Free admission, no ticket required Leoš Janáček String Quartet Má vlast (1874) Free admission, no ticket required Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio No 3 in No 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ (1928) Heinz Ignaz Franz Biber Battalia Kreutzer Sonata F minor Op 65 (1883) Pavel Haas String Quartet No 2 à 10 Masterclass with Tickets £17 2pm - 3.45pm RNCM Concert Hall ‘From the Monkey Mountains’ (1925) Trio Christoph Willibald Gluck 7pm - 7.15pm Carole Nash Recital Talich Quartet Concessions available Sonata No 1 in C major (1746) Room My Country 3 Tickets £17 Bedřich Smetana Vltava Moldau Delegates are welcome to drop in Concessions available from Má vlast (1874) Evening Lamentation and out of this workshop session on Erwin Schulhoff Concertino (1925) Josef Mysliveček Sonata No 3 in Janáček’s quartet, performed here in 9.30pm - 10pm RNCM Concert Hall Alois Hába Suite for four trombones G major (1770) Daniel Lim New work its arrangement for string orchestra. in a quarter-tone system Op 72 (1950) Lamentation 2 Antonín Reicha Wind Quintet Op 88 Jan Dismas Zelenka Miloslav Kabeláč 8 Invenzioni for Maundy Thursday Free admission, no ticket required Project Jam Sandwich No 1 (1820) Op 45 (1963) Our complete Zelenka Lamentations Harnessing the true spirit of Czech Petr Eben The Labyrinth of the World Tickets £12 music, the dynamic quintet bring the and Paradise of the Heart (1981) Concessions available are an extra offering as part of the 12.30pm - 1.10pm RNCM Concert second day of the Festival to a close Bedřich Smetana Tabor and Blaník Festival, for those keen to hear even Hall more music during scheduled meal with their folk music explosion of from Má vlast (1878 ) exhilarating improvisations, scorching times. Tickets £12 4pm - 5.15pm RNCM Concert Hall Legends rhythms and beautiful melodies. Concessions available Free admission, no ticket required Jeremy Young and Dvořák Quartets 1 Tickets £5 David Quigley Concessions available Antonín Dvořák String Quartet Antonín Dvořák Legends No 10 in E flat major Op 51 (1879) Op 59 (1881) Antonín Dvořák String Quartet No 11 in C major Op 61 (1881) Tickets £9 Concessions available Tickets £9 Concessions available

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Welcome …to the RNCM Chamber Music Festival, which returns to our own building this year following the renovation of our Concert Hall. I have entitled this Festival My Country as for as long as I can remember, Czech music has been a part of who I am, and I believe that it is an important part of the cycle of the RNCM Chamber Music Festival to show that to you.

My country is positioned at the heart of Europe, and as a result, takes influences from North, South, East and West to create a cultural melting pot that is unique. Following the revolution of 1848, Czech people developed a strong national pride that was essential to retain their identity amongst the many influences from all sides. We have created a musical language of huge individuals such as Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, Bohuslav Martinů and Bedřich Smetana, but also a musical construction through hundreds of composers that I can recognise as that of my own country after just a short phrase. Our music is intimate and fragile, but with a simplicity brought from its roots in folk. To me, Czech music is amongst the greatest in the world, and I am proud to present it to you.

It only increases the feeling of pride that I can bring this music to Manchester with some of the finest Czech musicians performing today; my own Talich Quartet, my friends Pavel Fischer and ambassadors for our country for over 25 years the Guarneri Trio from Prague, and one of the finest quartets working anywhere in the world today, the Pavel Haas Quartet. Alongside these performances we will welcome guests from across the UK and as always, the Festival will be brought to life by performances from students of the RNCM, Chetham’s School of Music, St Mary’s Edinburgh and Junior RNCM.

Thank you for this opportunity to share my passion for this music with you, I look forward to welcoming you to RNCM.

Petr Prause artistic director

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