CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS 2020 –
2019 Kettle’s Yard Chamber Music Autumn Term 2019
Welcome to the 2019–20 Chamber Music Concert Series. Van Kuijk Quartet 17 October I’m delighted to share with you our programme of concerts for the Mozart: Divertimento, K.138 2019–20 season and hope you will find plenty here to enjoy. As ever I Shostakovich: Quartet No.8 have tried to synthesise that special blend that characterises music at Beethoven: String Quartet, Op.59 No.3 Kettle’s Yard – traditional and new, familiar and surprising – and that goes for players as well as repertoire. Here you will find the ambrosia of Lonarc Oboe Trio Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert spritzed with Lutoslawski and 24 October Berg and chased up to date by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Joey Rukens. Johan Went: Variations on a Theme “The quality [of the Lonarc Oboe Trio] by Haydn is unquestionable and the entire This year we have perhaps more ensemble playing than ever – no fewer Beethoven: Trio, Op.87 experience in their company, than six quartets will perform and we’ve mustered two quintets as well. Josef Triebensee: Trio in F major utterly delightful.” We start the series with the Van Kuijk Quartet who gave a memorable James Horan: Variations Humoresque on Simon Emes, performance for us in St John’s Divinity School back in 2017 but will ‘Carnival of Venice’ (1995) Malaysian Symphony Orchestra now experience the delights of our home acoustic. The Maxwell Quartet return too, spicing their offering with idiosyncratic renditions of Scottish folk music. And look through these pages to find plenty more, each with their own particular character, like newcomers the Consone Quartet, just selected for the prestigious BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Van Kuijk Quartet. Photo: Nikolaj Lund To balance these collectives come a number of superb individual players. We welcome Daniel Rowland (late of the Brodsky Quartet) always fizzing with enthusiasm, Alasdair Beatson on piano, young cellist Jamal Aliyev and Sicilian rising star, pianist Giuseppe Guarrera. And the walls will ring with song – ancient and modern, soprano and baritone – always memorable in the intimate surroundings of Kettle’s Yard.
Our loyal band of subscribers knows well the pleasures of spending Thursday evenings listening to music in this unique place. A subscription ticket offers outstanding value for all fifteen chamber concerts, representing a saving of £110 over the year. Please turn to the back page for information.
I hope you will join me to enjoy another exciting series of concerts and I look forward to welcoming you.
Justin Lee, Chamber Music Programmer
Thursday concerts begin at 8pm Doors open at 7.30pm kettlesyard.co.uk/music Spring Term 2020
Giuseppe Guarrera, piano Gildas Quartet and Julien Van Mellaerts, baritone and Britten Oboe Quartet 31 October Carola Darwin, soprano Simon Lepper, piano 27 February Bach/Busoni: Chaconne (Partita No.2 28 November 30 January Thea Musgrave: Cantilena in D minor, BWV1004) Purcell: Chaconne & Fantasias Selected for this year’s BBC Cardiff Singer Jacqueline Shave: Machair to Myrrh Scriabin: Prelude & Nocturne for Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Endless Forms of the World competition, Van Mellaerts Elizabeth Lutyens: Driving out Death Left Hand, Op.9 Most Beautiful presents a varied programme which Lennox Berkeley: Oboe Quartet Scriabin: Eight Etudes, Op.42 Nicola LeFanu: But Stars Remaining includes Mahler’s Ruckert-Leider, Strauss’ Mozart: Quartet in C major Ravel: Three movements from ‘Miroirs’ Mozart: String Quartet No.19 in C major Morgen & Cacilie, some of Britten’s most Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.7, Op.83 K.465, ‘Dissonance’ familiar folksong arrangements and a range “The playing of the Britten Oboe Quartet of songs from Schubert and Schumann to was a wonder of interweaving textures and “Stunning piece, exquisite playing… Gershwin and Cole Porter. perfect balance ... a peak of performance” We’re running out of superlatives!” Andrew Polmear, Strings Attached The Strad on Gildas Quartet Quartetto Noûs Daniel Rowland, violin and 6 February Albion Quartet Craig White, piano Maxwell Quartet Berg: Lyric Suite (1925/26) 5 March 21 November 5 December Beethoven: String Quartet, Op.127 Beethoven: String Quartet, Op.18 No.5 Mozart: Violin Sonata No.21, K.304 The Jim and Helen Ede Concert Elizabeth Maconchy: Quartet No.3 Debussy (arr. Craig White): Five Preludes Haydn: String Quartet Op.71 No.3 Jamal Aliyev, cello and Brahms: Quartet No.3, Op.6 for Violin and Piano Traditional Scottish Folk Music Jâms Coleman, piano Stravinsky: Divertimento for Violin and Joey Rukens: Visions at Sea 20 February Piano, after The Fairy’s Kiss Schubert: Quartet, ‘Death and the Maiden’ The Max and Evelyn Forbes Concert Lili Boulanger: Nocturne Beethoven: Variations on ‘Ein Mädchen Ravel: Pièce en forme de habanera oder Weibchen’ (from Magic Flute) Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano Rachmaninov: Vocalise Popper: Elfentanz, Op.39; Hungarian Rhapsody, Op.68 Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso, Op.62 Lutoslawski: Sacher Variation Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2, Op.99
Left: Maxwell Quartet. Photo: Louise Mather Right: Albion Quartet. Photo: Steve Gullick Summer Term 2020 Huntingdon RoadA , Girton
Castle Hill Car Park Tippett Quartet and Chesterton Road Castle StreetCastle
Mound Victoria Avenue Emma Abbate, piano Jesus Green 14 May Madingley RoadMuseum of Cambridge Mendelssohn: String Quartet, No.1, Op.12 Quayside Magdalene Street Stephen Dodgson: Piano Quintet in C A Park Street Park and Ride Car Park Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op.44 Park Street
Jesus Lane Marsyas Trio, flute, cello, piano Jamal Aliyer. Photo: Kaupo Kikkas St John’s College
Queen’s Road Maids Causeway 21 May The Bridge Sidney Street Amy Beach: Pastorale & Caprice, Op.90 of Sighs ‘The Water Sprites’ Trinity College Christ’s College Hilary Tann: In the Theatre of Air Cambridge
A King’s College Hobson Street Louise Farrenc: Trio, Op.45 University Library Chapel
Trinity Street Thea Musgrave: Canta, Canta Grand Regent Street The Backs Arcade Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio, Op.11 Parker Street
Fitzwilliam Consone Quartet, period instruments Train station Museum 28 May Mendelssohn: String Quartet No.5, Op.44 No.3 Beethoven: String Quartet, Op.131 Getting here Booking Alasdair Beatson, piano Kettle’s Yard is a short walk from the centre Individual chamber concert tickets: 4 June of Cambridge, just over Magdalene Bridge. £20 (£5 full time students). Schubert: Impromptu, D.935 No.1 There is no parking at Kettle’s Yard. The Annual Subscription Ticket to all Fauré: Thème et Variations, Op.74 nearest on-street parking is at Pound Hill, fifteen chamber concerts: Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus (2 minutes walk, limited spaces). There are £190 (£65 full time students) Wien, Op.26 larger car parks at Castle Hill and Park To book please visit: Poulenc: Trois Novelettes Street. There is cycle parking on kettlesyard.co.uk/music Schubert: Sonata in A major, D.959 Northampton Street. Taxis should be directed to Northampton Street. To pay by cheque for a subscription ticket send a cheque made out to Kettle’s Bags and large coats must be left at the Yard, University of Cambridge, with information desk and cannot be brought in your name and contact details to: Kettle’s New Music 2020 Student Music 2020 to the House. Yard, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ. Subscription tickets will be available to Spring 2020 sees the return of Kettle’s Yard’s Another pleasure for the spring is the return Pre-concert refreshments collect at the first concert you attend. New Music Programme under the exciting of Friday lunchtime concerts curated and The Garden Kitchen café at Kettle’s Yard curatorship of Tom McKinney. In a series of performed by students. is open for drinks and nibbles before each Please note that the House is not fully six concerts interspersed on Thursdays from concert at 6.30pm. A sharing platter may be wheelchair accessible. To find out more January to June, Tom will present a range of For further information on both of these ordered by contacting the café at and to reserve an accessible seat please innovative music and musicians. series, please visit our website: [email protected] call 01223 748100. kettlesyard.co.uk/music by 12 noon on the day of the concert. If you would like to support Music at Kettle’s Yard please visit kettlesyard.co.uk/support
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