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Autumn Season • Sep-Dec 2019 from our audience:

"the Conway Hall Welcometo the Autumn 2019 Season of Conway Hall's Sunday Concerts It is an absolute delight to be able to present our Autumn series of concerts, which features an enticing variety of music played by some concerts are a lovely, of the finest musicians from the UK and abroad. Alongside a hearty helping of core repertoire by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Haydn and others, I am particularly pleased that this season we will have the relaxing way to end chance to hear a real rarity: the quintet by Benjamin Durrant, written in 1940 as the prizewinning entry of the Albert Clements competition, held right here at Conway Hall. the weekend. The The Arcis Saxophone , based in Germany, will give their Conway Hall début performance, combining original works for saxophone ensemble with arrangements including Dvořák’s evergreen music selection is wide American quartet - which we will also have the chance to hear in its original version a few weeks earlier.

Further highlights include Camerata Alma Viva in a concert featuring and the musicians are all the Mozart Divertimenti and other works from their recent CD, and the Linos Piano Trio who will offer a prelude to Beethoven’s anniversary year in the form of intimate, chamber arrangements of very high quality." his works. I am sure you will agree that we have a truly exciting season of music in store, and I look forward to welcoming you to our concerts. Please do remember to follow us on our social media pages, subscribe to The Sunday Concerts trace their history back to 1878 when the People’s our mailing list, and if you feel able to make a donation towards our Concert Society was formed for the purpose of “increasing the popularity work, look at the centre pages for more information on how to do this. of good music by means of affordable concerts”. TheSouth Place Ethical Society acquired the concert series and, in 1929, had Conway Hall purpose built for them and, with the exception of the war years, the Warmest best wishes, concerts seasons have continued ever since.

Scan this QR code to see a video introduction to our concert series. Simon Callaghan, Director of Music 2 conwayhall.org.uk/sunday-concerts 8th September • 6.30pm 15th September • 6.30pm 22nd September • 6.30pm 29th September • 6.30pm Maggini Quartet I Musicanti Peter Cigleris Delta Piano Trio Gerard Spronk • Julian Leaper • violin Tamás András • violin & Tippett Quartet Irene Enzlin • Ciaran McCabe • violin Fenella Humphreys • violin Vera Kooper • violin Martin Outram • Raja Halder • violin Peter Cigleris • clarinet Michal Kaznowski • cello Robert Smissen • viola John Mills • violin Richard Harwood • cello Jeremy Isaac • violin Haydn Trio in E Hob. XV:28 Peteris Vasks Plainscapes for piano trio Beethoven Quartet in G Op.18/2 Leon Bosch • double bass Lydia Lowndes-Northcott • viola Bozidar Vukotic • cello John Corigliano Fantasia on an Ostinato Lennox Berkeley Quartet No. 2 Op.15 for piano Beethoven Symphony No.1 in C Op.21 Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor Brahms Trio in C minor Op.101 Op.30 Beethoven arr. Carl Hinde Romance No.1 Arthur Benjamin Quintet in C minor in G Op.40 (British Premiere) Founded in 2013 by three Dutch Conway Hall favourites the Maggini Beethoven arr. Carl Hinde Romance No.2 Frederick Durrant Clarinet Quintet in E flat in F Op.50 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op.115 performers, the Delta Piano Trio have won Quartet open our Autumn 2019 season numerous international awards and have Beethoven arr. Carl Hinde Violin Concerto with a wonderful mix of 1940s Paris growing a discography including in D Op. 61 chic and supreme craft from Berkeley In the first half of the twentieth century, works by Shostakovich, Taneyev, Borodin between two great works from the classical British music was divided into two and Russian-American composer, Lera repertoire. The quartet have won awards I Musicanti make a welcome return in an schools of composition. The first was the Auerbach. Their programme at Conway including Gramophone all Beethoven programme, as a prelude to “Nationalist” school, led at the Royal Hall flanks cutting-edge twentieth and Award of the Year and Diapason d’Or, Beethoven's upcoming anniversary year. College of Music by Stanford and Parry, twenty-first century works for piano trio with and have twice been nominated for Comprising some of the most experienced while the second was the “Wagnerian” German classics for the ensemble. Grammy awards. We are delighted to and respected musicians to be found in school, lead by Fredrick Corder at the welcome them once again to Conway Hall. the UK, the ensemble is handpicked by . The only the group’s founder and artistic director, common ground these two schools of the international double bass virtuoso and thought shared was their love of Germanic conductor Leon Bosch. music. Clarinettist Peter Cigleris joins the Tippett Quartet to present two works from + PRE-CONCERT TALK • 5.30pm these two schools of composition alongside one of the greatest in the genre that kick- Robert Hugill: Arrangement, started the English clarinet quintet. Transcription and Popularisation (see December pages for details)

September conwayhall.org.uk/sunday-concerts 5 6th October • 6.30pm 13th October • 6.30pm 20th October • 6.30pm 27th October • 6.30pm Piatti Quartet & Trio Concertante Chamber Timothy Ridout

Simon Callaghan Nancy Dahn • violin Philharmonic & Jâms Coleman Heather Tuach • cello Nathaniel Anderson-Frank • violin Timothy Steeves • piano Europe Tim Ridout • viola Michael Trainor • violin Jâms Coleman • piano Tetsuumi Nagata • viola Andrey Sur • violin Jessie Ann Richardson • cello Beethoven Trio in D 'Ghost' Op.70 No.1 Vera Neumann • violin Glinka Sonata in D minor Shostakovich Trio No.2 in E minor Op.67 Simon Callaghan • piano Laurent Tardat • viola Shostakovich Sonata Op.147 Brahms Trio No.1 in B Op.8 Maksim Korobejnikov • cello Franck Sonata in A Turina La oración del torero (The bullfighter's prayer) Op.34 In a rare UK performance, Trio Mozart Quartet No.19 in C Since winning 1st Prize in the Lionel Concertante perform three of the most Brahms Quartet No.3 in B flatOp.67 'Dissonance' K465 Tertis International Viola Competition in popular works for piano trio, culminating in Janáček Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata' 2016, Timothy Ridout has gone on to Shostakovich in G minor the symphonic first trio by . Quartet No.1 in C minor perform widely in Europe. Jâms Coleman Op.57 The eerie-sounding second movement Brahms Op.51 No.1 is a pianist who enjoys a rich and varied gave Beethoven’s Ghost trio its famous The up-and-coming Piatti Quartet make musical life performing as a soloist, nickname, while Shostakovich’s second chamber musician and vocal accompanist. a welcome return to Conway Hall, joined trio, composed during World War Two, The unusually dissonant introduction to by Director of Music Simon Callaghan Mozart’s Quartet K465, dedicated For their Conway Hall début, they come combines a similar mysterious quality together in a programme of Russian to perform Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet, (opening with high harmonics on the cello) to , opens a colourful dating from 1940. They complete their programme of works for , and Belgian works for viola and piano, with Jewish melodies and Shostakovich’s culminating in one of César Franck’s best- richly varied programme with Brahms' trademark ‘sardonic humour’. spanning almost 150 years. The final essay in the genre and Turina’s folk- centrepiece is Janáček’s 1923 work, known compositions, originally for violin and piano. influencedThe Bullfighter’s Prayer, originally (part of Bloomsbury Festival) inspired by Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer composer for a quartet of ‘laúd’, Spanish Sonata, while Brahms' C minor quartet folkloric instruments similar to mandolins. (possibly in this key to acknowledge as well + PRE-CONCERT RECITAL • 5.30pm as break free from Beethoven’s influence), Royal College of Music musicians over which he agonised for many years Witness the future generation of music and revised extensively, closes the evening. stars as leading ensembles from the internationally-renowned conservatoire + PRE-CONCERT TALK • 5.30pm take to the Conway Hall stage in a varied Peter Quantrill: Small Steps and programme, to be announced. Giant Leaps: endeavour, progress (see website for programme details) and pioneering achievements (see December pages for details)

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Alma Viva Sara Trickey • violin Matthew Denton • violin Konrad Elias-Trostman • violin Sarah-Jane Bradley • viola Michelle Fleming • violin Vladimir Waltham • cello Charlotte Maclet • violin & director Tim Lowe • cello Eoin Schmidt-Martin • viola Prach Boondiskulchok • piano John Lenehan • piano Emma Denton • cello Mozart Divertimento in F K138 Beethoven arr. Beethoven Symphony No.2 Handel arr. Mouret Passaglia Mozart Piano Quartet No.2 in E flat K493 Moeran Quartet No. 2 in E flat in D Op.36 Mozart Divertimento in B flat K137 Bridge Phantasy for Piano Quartet No. 2 Beethoven arr. Linos Trio Finale from Kabalevsky arr. Mouret Valse in F sharp minor H.94 Dvořák Quartet in F 'American' Op.96 Symphony No.3 'Eroica' Mozart Divertimento in D K136 Debussy arr. John Lenehan Prelude from in E flat Op.55 Monti arr. Mouret Czardas La Damoiselle élue L.62 Posthumously discovered by Moeran’s Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.1 in D minor Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op.47 widow in 1950, British composer Ernest Op.49 Camerata Alma Viva make a welcome John Moeran’s E flat quartet is an early Ravel La valse return to Conway Hall as part of their Mozart was among the first to explore work, set in two movements in a relaxed the piano quartet, and it is his graceful E mood, and full of echoes of Ireland, where European tour and new album release. The Linos Piano Trio returns to Conway flat quartet that opens this concert. The Moeran spent much of his life. Borodin’s “The works presented on this album are Hall with the rarely heard Beethoven evening continues with Bridge’s quartet, second quartet (with the famous ‘Notturno’) those that have inspired and surrounded transcription of his own second Symphony, best summed up by his teacher, Britten: continues the programme, before Dvořák’s us for these past ten years. Mozart’s followed by the trio's re-imagination of "Sonorous yet lucid, with clear, clean lines, 12th quartet, composed during the divertimenti – little gems that nonetheless the variations from the Eroica Symphony. grateful to listen to and to play. It is the composer’s time in the United States, contain all the facets of human emotions – Hailed by Schumann as one of the genre's music of a practical musician, brought up in provides a light-hearted, celebratory finale are a source of rejuvenation for the listener masterworks, Mendelssohn's D minor Trio is German orthodoxy, but who loved French to the evening. and a marvellous space for experimentation paired with Ravel's haunting La Valse. and playing for the musicians. The “B-Side” romanticism and conception of sound— of the album dives into another world, with Brahms happily tempered with Fauré." John + PRE-CONCERT RECITAL • 5.30pm Lenehan’s new arrangement of Debussy three original arrangements written by Éric Royal College of Music musicians Mouret. From the finesse of Kabalevsky’s begins the second half, before Schumann’s Witness the future generation of music Waltz to the bohemian virtuosity of Monti’s quartet, composed in 1842, one of his stars as leading ensembles from the Czardas and the famous “Baroque ‘n Roll” most productive chamber music years. of Handel’s Passacaglia, Éric displays all internationally-renowned conservatoire take to the Conway Hall stage in a varied the ingenuity of his writing in these works + PRE-CONCERT TALK • 5.30pm specially arranged for the musicians of the programme, to be announced. group.” (Charlotte Maclet, founder) Robert Hugill: The Cinderella Effect: (see website for programme details) A History of the Piano Quartet (see December pages for details)

November10 conwayhall.org.uk/sunday-concerts conwayhall.org.uk/sunday-concerts 11 1st December • 6.30pm 8th December • 6.30pm 15th December • 6.30pm Talks

Fitzwilliam Quartet Arcis Saxophone Piatti Quartet 15th September • 5.30pm Robert Hugill: Arrangement, Transcription and & Simon Callaghan Quartet Nathaniel Anderson-Frank • violin Popularisation American Dreams Michael Trainor • violin Arrangements and transcriptions were everywhere Lucy Russell • violin Tetsuumi Nagata • viola in the late 18th and 19th centuries, from Beethoven symphonies for piano duet to Rossini for wind Marcus Barcham Stevens • violin Claus Hierluksch • soprano saxophone Jessie Ann Richardson • cello octet. Beethoven even did some himself, producing Alan George • viola Ricarda Fuss • alto saxophone a piano trio version of one of his symphonies, Sally Pendlebury • cello Edoardo Zotti • tenor saxophone Suk Meditation on the Old Czech Hymn and encouraged his contemporaries to write Simon Callaghan • piano Jure Knez • baritone saxophone 'St Wenceslas' Op.35a transcriptions of his music. Shostakovich Quartet No. 8 in C minor 20th October • 5.30pm Haydn String Quartet in D 'The Frog' Reich New York Counterpoint Op.110 Op.50 No. 6 ř Schubert Quartet in G D887 Peter Quantrill: Small Steps and Giant Leaps: Dvo ák Quartet in F 'American' Op.96 endeavour, progress and pioneering achievements Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 Bernstein West Side Story suite To tie in with the Bloomsbury Festival which in F minor 'Serioso' Op.95 Barber Adagio Our Autumn 2019 series of concerts comes is taking place at Conway Hall during the Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op.84 Gershwin arr. Dedenon Suite after themes to a close with Schubert’s G major quartet, weekend, musicologist Peter Quantrill talks about of Porgy and Bess his last work for the genre. To welcome the evening’s programme in the context of the Elgar’s piano quintet is one of three works in the festive season, the Piatti Quartet’s development of the string quartet and its pioneers. performance begins with Suk’s Meditation completed during the summer of 1918 (the Endless fascinating prairie landscapes; the on ‘St Wenceslas’, composed when he other works being the string quartet and exciting pulse of the city that never sleeps; 10th November • 5.30pm was second violinist in the Bohemian the violin sonata), while he was staying the swinging life of the Southern states; Robert Hugill: The Cinderella Effect: A History String Quartet and later arranged for at Brinkwells in Sussex, a country cottage stories full of dreams, hopes and love. In of the Piano Quartet string orchestra. Shostakovich’s eighth rented by the Elgar family, and is dedicated American Dreams, the Arcis Saxophone Intended for amateurs but in fact far too difficult, quartet, arguably the most well known of to Ernest Newman, music critic of The Quartet presents a broad musical range of Mozart’s first piano quartet effectively created a his 15 essays in the genre and containing Guardian. Simon Callaghan joins the the American way of life. new genre, which remained in the shadow of its Fitzwilliam Quartet for this performance, numerous self quotes, lies at the centre of a big brother, the piano quintet. Even Schumann’s which will also include Haydn’s Frog programme not to be missed. piano quartet remained far less popular than his contemporaneous quintet. quartet, and Beethoven’s masterpiece, his + PRE-CONCERT TALK • 5.30pm Serioso quartet. Robert Hugill: The Fascinating + PRE-CONCERT RECITAL • 5.30pm 8th December • 5.30pm History of the Saxophone Royal College of Music musicians Robert Hugill: The Fascinating History of the (see opposite for details) Witness the future generation of music Saxophone stars as leading ensembles from the When it was invented by Adolphe Saxe, the internationally-renowned conservatoire saxophone was only one of a number of instruments take to the Conway Hall stage in a varied created to correct the problems inherent in the programme, to be announced. instrumentation of the orchestra. Perceived as (see website for programme details) classical in the 19th century, the instrument’s 20th century history has enabled players to cross December boundaries and genres. BOOKING SUNDAY CONCERTS PATRONS Standard Tickets £14 Stephen Hough - available on the night, at the box office Prunella Scales CBE Advance Tickets £12 Hiro Takenouchi from our audience: - may be purchased online: conwayhall.org.uk - available until 4.30pm on the day of the event Petroc Trelawny Ethical Society Members Tickets £10 Timothy West CBE - may be purchased online: conwayhall.org.uk & on the door on production of a membership card "the concert hall is ABOUT CONWAY HALL FREE for people aged 8-25 courtesy of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust Built in 1929 and now Grade II listed, Conway Hall is and always will be the place for those who dare to dream of a better world.

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GETTING TO CONWAY HALL *Artists and programmes were correct at the time of going to print. Conway Hall reserves the right to make changes to these 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL at any point, and will endeavour to notify our patrons through our mailing list and social media. Tube: Holborn station on the Piccadilly and Central lines (within 5 mins walk) PHOTO CREDITS: Bus: 1, 8, 19, 25, 38, 55, 59, 68, 91, 98, 168, Melanie Strover (Maggini Quartet) 171, 188, 242, 243, 521 (within 5 mins walk) Thomas Bowles (Peter Cigleris) Parking: Free parking all day on Sundays in Kaupo Kikkas (Camerata Alma Viva) Red Lion Square and adjacent streets. (Some Robert Piwko (Rossetti Ensemble) parking bays are for residents only and there Andy Holdsworth (Carducci Quartet) may be other local parking restrictions) Kaupo Kikkas (Linos Piano Trio) Accessibility: the Main Hall, Brockway Room Peter Searle (Fitzwilliam Quartet) and Cafe are accessible by wheelchair. There Viktor Erik Emanuel (Piatti Quartet) is also an accessible toilet on the ground floor, Robert Piwko (Robert Hugill) opposite the Brockway Room. idjphotography.com ("Support us") September 2019 8th 6.30pm Maggini Quartet BEETHOVEN • BERKELEY • TCHAIKOVSKY 15th 5.30pm Robert Hugill • FREE PRE-CONCERT TALK 6.30pm I Musicanti BEETHOVEN 22nd 6.30pm Tippett Quartet & Peter Cigleris BENJAMIN • DURRANT • BRAHMS 29th 6.30pm Delta Piano Trio HAYDN • VASKS • CORIGLIANO • BRAHMS

October 6th 6.30pm Piatti Quartet & Simon Callaghan TURINA • BRAHMS • SHOSTAKOVICH 13th 6.30pm Trio Concertante BEETHOVEN • SHOSTAKOVICH • BRAHMS 20th 5.30pm Peter Quantrill • FREE PRE-CONCERT TALK 6.30pm Chamber Philharmonic Europe MOZART • JANÁČEK • BRAHMS 27th 5.30pm Royal College of Music musicians • FREE PRE-CONCERT RECITAL 6.30pm Timothy Ridout & Jâms Coleman GLINKA • SHOSTAKOVICH • FRANCK

November 3rd 6.30pm Camerata Alma Viva MOZART • HANDEL • KABALEVSKY • MONTI 10th 5.30pm Robert Hugill • FREE PRE-CONCERT TALK 6.30pm Rosetti Ensemble MOZART • BRIDGE • DEBUSSY • SCHUMANN 17th 5.30pm Royal College of Music musicians • FREE PRE-CONCERT RECITAL 6.30pm Carducci Quartet MOERAN • BORODIN • DVOŘáK 24th 6.30pm Linos Piano Trio BEETHOVEN • MENDELSSOHN • RAVEL

December 1st 6.30pm Fizwilliam Quartet & Simon Callaghan HAYDN • BEETHOVEN • ELGAR 8th 5.30pm Robert Hugill • FREE PRE-CONCERT TALK 6.30pm Arcis Saxophone Quartet REICH • DVOŘáK • BERNSTEIN • BARBER • GERSHWIN 15th 5.30pm Royal College of Music musicians • FREE PRE-CONCERT RECITAL 6.30pm Piatti Quartet SUK • SHOSTAKOVICH • SCHUBERT • SEASON FINALE

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