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 clarinet 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 Quartet, 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. 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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 • violin Julian Leaper • violin Tamás András • violin & Tippett Quartet Irene Enzlin • cello Ciaran McCabe • violin Fenella Humphreys • violin Vera Kooper • violin Martin Outram • viola 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 Chamber Music 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 Royal Academy of Music. 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 flat Op.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 Piano Quintet in G minor the symphonic first trio by Johannes Brahms. 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 Joseph Haydn, opens a colourful dating from 1940. They complete their programme of works for string quartet, 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. 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