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Simon Crawford-Phillips & Philip Moore
Saturday 26 January 2019, 7:30pm Pre-concert talk by Misha Donat at 6:15pm Venue: John Innes Conference Centre SCHUMANN ARR. BIZET Six Studies in Canonic Form MOZART Sonata in F, K.497 BACH ARR. KURTAG Chorale Preludes SCHUBERT Allegro in A minor, D.947, Rondo in A major, D.951 STRAVINSKY ARR. MOORE 3 Movements As composers of four-hands piano music, Mozart and Schubert stand supreme. Mozart’s F major Sonata is an undiscovered masterpiece – a work of truly symphonic proportions; while the Schubert pieces here,…
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Saturday 9 February 2019, 7:30pm Venue: John Innes Conference Centre BOCCHERINI String Quintet in B flat, Op.39 No.1 STRAVINSKY Tree Pieces for Clarinet MOZART Duo in B flat for violin and viola, K.424 SCHUBERT Octet in F, D.803 In its formal layout, Schubert’s Octet is modelled on the ever-popular Septet by Beethoven. But Schubert’s effervescent piece is stamped throughout with his own personality. Mozart’s masterly Duo for violin and viola is an object lesson in how to write inventively for the…
Find out more »The Endellion String Quartet
Saturday 23 February 2019, 7:30pm Pre-concert talk by Misha Donat at 6:15pm Venue: John Innes Conference Centre HAYDN Quartet in F minor, Op.20 No.5 WEBERN Five Movements, Op.5 BEETHOVEN Quartet in B flat, Op.130 & 133 The Endellion String Quartet, now celebrating its 40th anniversary, offers a programme ranging from Webern’s miniature and highly concentrated Five Movements Op.5 to Beethoven’s epic Quartet Op.130, with the gigantic fugue which originally formed its fnale. Haydn’s Quartet Op.20 No.5 also ends with a fugue,…
Find out more »Škampa Quartet
Saturday 23 March 2019, 7:30pm Venue: John Innes Conference Centre SUK Meditation JANÁCEK Quartet No.2 (‘Intimate Letters’) DVOŘÁK Quartet in G, Op.106 An all-Czech evening, featuring composers of three different generations. Dvořák’s G major Quartet was composed in the wake of his three-year stay in America, in the 1890s. The ‘Meditation’, by his pupil and son-in-law Josef Suk, is based on an old Czech chorale; while Janácek’s Quartet No.2 was inspired by the many love letters he wrote to his…
Find out more »James Ehnes & Andrew Armstrong
Sunday 7 April 2019, 3:00pm Pre-concert talk by Misha Donat at 1:45pm Venue: John Innes Conference Centre BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata in D, Op.12 No.1 Violin Sonata in A, Op.12 No.2 Violin Sonata in A minor, Op.23 Violin Sonata in E flat, Op.12 No.3 (cycle to be completed in the following season) James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong begin their journey through the Beethoven violin sonatas with the frst four works of the series. The triptych Op.12 shows the youthful…
Find out more »Heath Quartet & Friends
with Matthew Hunt, Ruth Gibson and Marie Bitlloch Saturday 13 April & Sunday 14 April 2019 Venue: John Innes Conference Centre Saturday 7.30pm STRAUSS String Sextet from Capriccio MOZART String Quintet in C, K.515 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 Sunday 11.00am BRITTEN Quartet No.1 in D BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 Sunday 3pm WIDMANN Quartet No.1 MOZART Quartet in C, K.465 (‘Dissonance’) BEETHOVEN Quartet in E flat, Op.127 A chamber weekend offering two C major masterpieces by Mozart, as well as the first…
Find out more »Roderick Williams & Roger Vignoles
Sunday 28 April 2019, 3:00pm Pre-concert discussion with the artists at 2:00pm Venue: John Innes Conference Centre BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98 SCHUBERT Schwanengesang, D.957 Beethoven’s ‘An die ferne Geliebte’, composed in 1816, was the frst true song cycle, and a piece that fascinated the romantic generation of composers that came after him. Schubert’s posthumously published ‘Schwanengesang’ contains the seeds of two distinct cycles – one setting the poetry of Heine, the other using texts by ludwig Rellstab. Roderick…
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