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17 JANUARY (SAT 7.30PM)
JAMIE WALTON (CELLO)
& CLARE HAMMOND (PIANO)
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1 FEBRUARY
BUSCH ENSEMBLE
8 FEBRUARY
FIREBIRD ORCHESTRA
WITH JONATHAN BLOXHAM
(CONDUCTOR) AND
RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (CELLO)
15 FEBRUARY
PRIMROSE PIANO QUARTET
PRE-CONCERT TALK
WITH ANTHONY PAYNE
8 MARCH
ENSEMBLE MIDTVEST
CARL NIELSEN 150TH BIRTHDAY
15 MARCH
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25 JANUARY
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& ANNA TILBROOK (PIANO)
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7 DECEMBER
FIBONACCI SEQUENCE
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London Chamber Music Society
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The winter part of the London
Chamber Music Sunday Series, taking
us from December through to March,
presents a wide range of chamber
groups: from the wonderful cello
and piano duo of Jamie Walton & Clare
Hammond, up to a whole chamber
orchestra of 25 players and conductor,
with the London Firebird Orchestra
performing Mozart's magical ‘Jupiter’
Symphony, and joined by Raphael
Wallfisch in Haydn's popular C Major
Cello Concerto.
December begins with a concert
to celebrate the 20th anniversary of
the ever-versatile Fibonacci Sequence,
in an imaginative programme
featuring a new work by Ben Wallfisch
and culminating with Saint-Saëns’s
exuberant Septet for trumpet, piano
and strings. Our last concert before
Christmas features the riot of Baroque
colour and energy that is ‘Red Priest’,
including music by Vivaldi, Handel
and Bach – not to be missed!
In early 2015, we host the Dante
and Fitzwilliam string quartets:
as well as music by Haydn and
Beethoven, the Dante Quartet
performs the fifth quartet by British
composer Matthew Taylor. On
January 25, pianist Anna Tilbrook
joins the Fitzwilliam quartet to
perform one of Schubert's most
sublime impromptus, as well as
the chamber arrangement of
one of Mozart's most beautiful
piano concertos.
The other quartet in this part of our
season is a piano quartet, in the guise
of the famous Primrose Piano Quartet:
they present a special concert featuring
the premiere of the new Piano Quartet
by Anthony Payne, together with a preconcert talk to introduce the new work.
2015 sees the LCMS debut of
the Bush Ensemble, a dynamic and
youthful prize-winning piano trio,
playing works by Schubert, Beethoven
and Dvořák.
In early March, the dazzling
'Ensemble MidtVest', visiting from
Denmark, present music by Smetana,
Röntgen and Beethoven and perform
Danish composer Carl Nielsen's wind
quintet to mark his 150th birthday. This
particular concert will be recorded for
broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
I hope you will agree that the LCMS
Sunday strand at Kings Place offers one
of our most exciting series of concerts
yet, and I look forward to seeing you
there!
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14 DECEMBER
8 FEBRUARY
RED PRIEST
FIREBIRD
ORCHESTRA
WITH JONATHAN
BLOXHAM
HANDEL IN THE WIND
7 DECEMBER
FIBONACCI
SEQUENCE
20TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT
Copland Quiet City for trumpet,
cor anglais and string quintet
Mozart Adagio for cor anglais
and strings, K.580a
Wallfisch An Eternal Window
for voice, strings and piano
Schulhoff Duo for violin and cello
Saint-Saëns Septet in E flat for
trumpet, strings and piano, Op. 65
The Fibonacci Sequence celebrate
their 20th anniversary in a
programme displaying the full range
of their potential, from the Duo by
Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff,
to Saint-Saëns’s exuberant Septet
from 1881. Along the way, we hear
wonderful music by Copland, Mozart
and a Fibonacci commission by
Benjamin Wallfisch, the setting
of a poem by the late Israeli poet
Yehuda Amichai.
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Handel Suite from the Messiah
Largo and Passacaglia from Suite
in G minor, HWV 432
Harmonious Blacksmith Variations
from Suite in E major, HWV 430
Improvisation on Lascia Ch’Io Pianga
from Rinaldo
Recorder Sonata in B minor
Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in D minor
Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach &
Johann Sebastian Bach Suite in A
minor BWV 1020
JS Bach Bouree, Sarabande and
Gigue from English Suite No. 1 in A,
BWV 806
The London Chamber Music
Society’s last concert before
Christmas features the riot of
baroque sound that is Red Priest,
taking us on a whirlwind tour
through the music of that titan of the
baroque, Georg Frederick Handel.
Their programme includes sonatas,
chaconnes and virtuoso variations,
transcriptions both sublime and
tempestuous and an audacious
suite drawn from his most
celebrated work, Messiah. Handel’s
music will be interspersed by works
by Vivaldi and Bach – including a
nod to the tri-centenary of Bach’s
famous son, Carl Phillip Emanuel.
17 JANUARY
SATURDAY 7.30PM
11 JANUARY
DANTE
QUARTET
Haydn String Quartet in C, Op. 33
No. 3 The Bird
Matthew Taylor String Quartet
No. 5, Op. 35
Beethoven String Quartet No. 12
in E flat, Op. 127
Premiered in 2008 by the
Dante Quartet, British composer
Matthew Taylor's Fifth Quartet is
the centrepiece of this evening’s
imaginative programme. Structured
as a single-movement, Taylor’s work
proposes extreme contrasts –
transforming from the eruptive
opening to a pacifying lullaby in
15 minutes. Flanking this are Haydn’s
delightful C major quartet, which
owes its nickname to a chirpy
opening with interleaved repeated
notes and grace notes, and the
first of Beethoven’s technically
demanding ‘late quartets’ –
this one known for its massive
set of variations.
JAMIE WALTON
(CELLO) & CLARE
HAMMOND
(PIANO)
Beethoven Sonata for cello
and piano in D, Op. 102 No. 2
Britten Sonata for cello and piano
in C, Op. 65
Alan Mills & Peter Fribbins
Aquarelles for piano:
Reflections on Debussy
Debussy Sonata for cello and piano
Fauré Sonata for cello and piano
No. 1 in D, Op. 109
A wide-ranging programme,
beginning and ending with two
famous cello sonatas which, in
many ways, mark the start and end
of Romanticism in music: the last of
Beethoven’s fi ve sonatas from
c.1815, and the late sonata by Fauré
– reworking material from his 1884
sketches for a symphony which
would never be materialised.
In between come two twentieth
century sonatas by Britten and
Debussy, the latter preluded by
two Debussy-inspired piano works.
25 JANUARY
FITZWILLIAM
QUARTET
& ANNA
TILBROOK (PIANO)
Suk Meditation on the Old Czech
Chorale St. Wenceslas, Op. 35a
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3
in F, Op. 73
Schubert Impromptu in G flat,
D.899 No. 3
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12
in A, K.414
A programme of contrasting halves.
Suk’s Meditation, written shortly
after the outbreak of WWI, is based
on an ancient Bohemian chorale,
which gives the piece its serene
character as an antidote to the
anxiety of war. Shostakovich’s grim
Third Quartet of 1946 was initially
presented as a ‘war quartet’ with
descriptive movement titles –
an idea that the composer later
withdrew. Outstanding pianist Anna
Tilbrook opens the second half with
Schubert’s languid, serenade-like
Third Impromptu. She then joins the
Quartet to perform the chamber
version of Mozart’s gentle Concerto
in A from 1782.
8 MARCH
ENSEMBLE
MIDTVEST
(CONDUCTOR)
CARL NIELSEN 150TH
BIRTHDAY CONCERT
& RAPHAEL
WALLFISCH
(CELLO)
1 FEBRUARY
BUSCH
ENSEMBLE
Schubert Notturno in E flat, D.897
Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat,
Op. 70 No. 2
Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor,
Op. 65
The Busch Ensemble is a young
piano trio who are winning many
prizes and wowing audiences
with their fine and sensitive
musicianship. In their LCMS debut,
they perform Schubert’s beautiful
Notturno movement, Beethoven's
wonderful E flat trio paired with the
‘Ghost’ in the same Op. 70 set, and
Dvořák’s mighty F minor trio from
1883, a turbulent time for the
composer, in which he was dealing
with the recent death of his mother
as well as the birth of another son.
JS Bach Air and Gavotte from
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D,
BMV1068
Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
Rossini Une Larme (ʻA Tearʼ) Theme
& Variations for cello and strings
Mozart Symphony in C, K.551 Jupiter
In one of our annual concerts
expanding the focus from chamber
ensemble to chamber orchestra,
we welcome the wonderful Firebird
Orchestra, comprised of energetic
and youthful professional musicians
graduating from music college in the
last 10 years. In this wide-ranging
programme, they are joined by
cellist Raphael Wallfisch in Haydn’s
famous C Major concerto, and a
dazzling theme and variations by
Rossini. The concert starts with
Bach’s beautiful ‘Air on a G string’
and culminates in Mozart’s great
final ‘Jupiter’ symphony from the
late 1780s.
15 FEBURARY
PRIMROSE
PIANO QUARTET
Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat
Anthony Payne Piano Quartet
(London premiere)
Brahms Piano Quartet in A, Op. 26
The famous Primrose Piano Quartet
performs Schumann’s magical piano
quartet dating from 1842, and the
beautifully lyrical A major quartet by
Brahms, composed in the early
1860s when the composer was in
his late 20s. In between, the
musicians give the premiere of a
new work by the celebrated British
composer Anthony Payne.
PRE-CONCERT TALK
WITH ANTHONY PAYNE
Hall One, 5.20pm – 6pm
Nielsen Woodwind Quintet, Op. 43
Beethoven Trio in B flat
for clarinet, cello and piano,
Op. 11 Gassenhauer
Julius Röntgen Trio for flute,
oboe and bassoon in G,
Op. 86 (excerpts)
Smetana Piano Trio in G minor,
Op. 15
To mark the 150th anniversary of
the birth of Danish composer
Carl Nielsen, we welcome one of
Denmark’s most eminent chamber
groups, Ensemble MidtVest.
As well as Nielsen’s wind quintet,
the ensemble performs some
wonderful music by Julius Röntgen
– perhaps a new name for some:
born in Leipzig in 1855, his late
nineteenth-century voice is full of
the warmth and lyricism of Brahms
and his German contemporaries.
Ensemble MidtVest complete their
programme with Beethoven’s
ever-popular ‘Gassenhauer’ trio, and
the passionate piano trio by Czech
romantic master Bedřich Smetana.
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