Concert Diary October 2018

Concert Diary October 2018

CONCERT DIARY 2018 – 2019 SUndayS at 6:30PM ‘Hear claSSical MUSic in A cool VenUE’ Time Out Red Priest 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 Piano 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 String Quartet. 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, Middlesex University 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 Piano Trio 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 cello 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 Vienna 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 wind quintet, Martino Tirimo piano FP 100 Ben Sayevich violin Daniel Veis cello Daniel Pailthorpe flute Emily Pailthorpe oboe The celebrated ensemble presents a Maximiliano Martin clarinet 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.

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