Bringing the very best in classical chamber music Trio in the last of their survey of Beethoven’s to London audiences trios. November also sees a concert of some of the ! nest music for wind, with Japanese pianist Reiko Fujisawa and wind principals from the London orchestras, and a welcome Membership London Chamber Music Series reappearance by the celebrated period Membership, which covers the whole Patrons violinist Elizabeth Wall! sch, joined by David 2013/14 season, costs just £20 and allows Sir Jeremy Dixon Breitman on the fortepiano, in historically- entry to the concerts at a greatly reduced Julia Somerville price. Membership forms can be obtained informed, period performances of violin on Sunday evenings from the LCMS desk President sonatas by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. at Kings Place or on our website: Levon Chilingirian, OBE In addition to our international quartets, www.londonchambermusic.org.uk Artistic Director MARTINO TIRIMO pianist Dr Peter Fribbins the concert on October 20th presents Box O! ce [email protected] two quartets in one, as the celebrated To book online, 24 hours a day, go to Executive Chairman Chilingirian quartet is joined by some www.kingsplace.co.uk Neil Johnson To book by phone, call +44 (0)20 8740 9512 IMAGING MATHEW © wonderful string soloists to perform the +44 (0)20 7520 1490 [email protected] Brahms G major sextet and the Enescu Monday to Saturday 12–8pm, Sunday 12–7pm, closed Bank Holidays. Treasurer Octet – we are particularly grateful to the Leon Levy Opening hours may vary – please check Romanian Cultural Institute for their generous the Kings Place website for the most up- +44 (0)20 8349 3103 [email protected] support of this concert. In early December, to-date information. Secretary the Maggini quartet visits with Mozart, Members Vicky Yannoula ST PETERSBURG QUARTET Mendelssohn and the premiere of a new Admission for members is £10 whether +44 (0)7956 113 541 booked online, by telephone or at the Box [email protected] work by British composer Stuart MacRae. O! ce. Tickets can be obtained in advance Administrator or on the night at the Box O! ce, subject In a preview of our last concerts Karolina Ozadowicz to availability. You must have your current before Christmas, we present the Allegri +44 (0)7598 899 611 membership card with your tickets to gain [email protected] quartet in an unusual ! rst performance: admission to the hall. Members’ discounted tickets cannot be purchased for, or used by the London premiere of a Haydn quartet! www.londonchambermusic.org.uk Welcome to the 2013/14 season of the Professor William Drabkin has completed non-members. London Chamber Music Society London Chamber Music Society concerts. the fragments Haydn le" of the ! rst The Music Base, Kings Place General Public Our autumn presents the ! rst three concerts movement of his last quartet (the middle Admission is £16.50 online. Please add £2 90 York Way, King’s Cross in our new London Chamber Music Society per ticket if booking by telephone or via London, N1 9AG two movements were published as International Quartet Series, featuring the Box O! ce. Op.103), and also supplied a spirited In Partnership with Kings Place Music Foundation quartets from Russia (St Petersburg ! nale. The programme also includes late Student Tickets Quartet), the Czech Republic (Martinu˚ Free membership of the LCMS is o" ered string quintets by Mozart and Brahms. Our to students up to the age of 22 years on Information in this concert diary was correct at the Quartet), and Norway (Vertavo Quartet), time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute autumn season culminates on December production of a valid Student Card. This gives artists and to vary programmes if necessary. all in highly distinctive programmes, the opportunity of purchasing tickets for 15th with a chamber orchestra: the very the second of which also features the LCMS concerts at the members’ price. best musicians from Cambridge University The London Chamber Music Society wonderful Russian-American pianist Olga Multi-Buy Savings is a registered charity (1075787) Regent’s Canal conducted by the legendary Sir Roger Central Saint Martins Vinokur in Sergei Taneyev’s majestic piano There is a 15% reduction when four or more promoting high-quality live chamber Whard Rd Battlebridge Battlebridge Norrington in symphonies by Haydn and Basin concerts are booked at the same time. CrinanSt music at a" ordable prices. 90 York Way quintet from 1911. Further quartets from Goods Way London N1 9AG Mendelssohn and a beautiful baroque NCP Car Wharfdale Rd Germany, France, and another from the cantata by Alessandro Scarlatti. Park Tickets for October 20th Concert: King’s Pancras Rd Cross Midland Rd Czech Republic, complete the series a" er King’s Boulevard £15 | LCMS Members £8 Phone £2.75; On-line £1.75 per transaction. York Way Caledonian Rd Christmas, with more to follow in 2014/15. Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, www.southbankcentre.co.uk | 0844 875 0073 St Pancras International Pentonville Rd Time Out King’s Cross Rd Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX (Please note this concert is not included in Thameslink We have two piano trios in the autumn, Euston Gray’s Inn Rd Station British Southbank Centre booking fees apply. Library the wonderful Gra# n, Demarquette, the Multi-Buy scheme) Euston Rd Blumenthal Trio (whom we last had in 2010), in an interesting Schumann-Tchaikovsky Dr Peter Fribbins, Artistic Director programme, and the famous Rosamunde London Chamber Music Society Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 Schumann Langsam (Slow movement from Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23) Geistervariationen for piano solo, WoO 24 Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin Mozart Violin Sonata in A, K526 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch II (1982) JS Bach Sonata for violin and in A minor Op. 50 Mozart Quintet In E flat harpsichord in F minor, Concert in collaboration for piano and winds, K452 BMV1018 A concert of 19th century romantic with the Romanian Cultural Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 Peter Fribbins In Xanadu Beethoven Violin Sonata ghosts: Schumann’s # rst piano trio Institute, London in G minor, K478 for wind quintet Grieg String Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 30 No. 1 is followed by the trio arrangement Brahms Sextet for Strings Martinu˚ String Quartet No.2, H150 Beethoven Piano Trio in G, Poulenc Sextet for piano and winds in F, EG117 Beethoven Violin Sonata of the beautiful slow movement from No. 2 in G, Op. 36 Taneyev Piano Quintet Op. 1 No. 2 Dvorˇák String Quartet in F, Op. 24 Spring Mozart String Quartet in D, K499 JS Bach Chaconne in D minor his late violin concerto, a work Enescu Octet for Strings in G minor Op.30 Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Some of the # nest wind players in F, Op. 96 American Ho! meister (from Partita No. 2, BWV 1004) suppressed by Clara and Brahms, in C, Op. 7 Op. 97 Archduke in England, all principals or ex- Beethoven String Quartet Performing on beautiful early Stuart MacRae String Quartet Proko# ev String Quartet No. 2 fearing Schumann’s madness was The second concert in our principals of major orchestras, in C sharp minor, Op. 131 instruments, Elizabeth Wall# sch (premiere) Some exceptional string soloists in F, Op. 92 becoming increasingly obvious International Quartet Series features The last concert in our survey of including the Royal Philharmonic, and David Breitman pair sonatas Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 3 join the famous Chilingirian Schubert String Quartet No. 15 in his music. In 1854 Schumann the wonderful Czech quartet with Beethoven’s works for piano trio, Philharmonia and English Chamber The third concert in our International by Beethoven with sonatas by in D, Op. 44 No. 1 Quartet to perform the beautiful in G, D887 worked its theme into some Russian-American pianist, Olga given by the trio of international Orchestra, join the celebrated Quartet Series coincides with the Mozart and Bach. Coupled with remarkable variations for piano – the second string sextet by Brahms Vinokur. Mozart’s beautiful and soloists that constitutes the Japanese pianist Reiko Fujisawa. Norwegian Week of events at Kings Beethoven’s ever-popular Spring The famous Maggini Quartet The # rst in our exciting new Geistervariationen – apparently – written in the mid 1860s – and dramatic G minor piano quartet is Rosamunde Trio. This concert They take a fascinating musical Place, and so features the wonderful sonata, the fortepiano in Bach’s F perform Mozart’s Ho! meister ‘International Quartet Series’, forgetting the theme’s origin, and Romanian composer George followed by the second of Martinu˚ ’s couples another of the early journey, beginning and ending with Norwegian Vertavo Quartet. The minor sonata sheds an entirely new quartet (written in 1786 for his features the celebrated, Grammy- claiming the ghosts of Schubert and Enescu’s magni# cent string seven string quartets, composed in Op. 1 trios, the ebullient G major two French masterworks: in the concert features Dvorˇák’s most light on the counterpoint between friend Franz Anton Ho" meister), nominated Russian quartet in works Mendelssohn dictated it to him. octet, composed in 1900. The 1925 and # nishes with what is fast trio, with the # nal one, the mighty middle is the Coleridge-inspired In popular quartet, the late great Op. 131 the two players (the fortepiano is the premiere of a new work by the by