BRING A PACKED LUNCH. A visit to the renowned collection of baroque and classical bassoons, curated by the late William Waterhouse. At the invitation of Elisabeth Waterhouse. The visit is free, we would just like to have some idea of...
Jacqueline Johnson cello Dominic Piers Smith piano Frederic Chopin (1810-49) Sonata for cello and piano Op 65 (1845-46) If the piano was the center of Frédéric Chopin’s universe, the cello was a significant satellite. Three of his four chamber works...
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Piano Trio (1914) Ravel’s Piano Trio was the last of his great pre-War scores. In fact, he completed the piece in a rush to join the French army in the late summer of 1914 (thankfully, for Ravel and...
Pavlova Winds, with Malcolm Pearce piano, present: Mozart Quintet for piano and winds Thuille Sextet for piano and winds Programme Notes Mozart Mozart writing to his father Leopold “I consider it the best work I have ever written…” The Quintet...
Fauré Élégie, Thème et variations Poulenc Cello sonata, Novelettes Diana Hinds piano Coral Lancaster cello Composed in 1880, Gabriel Fauré’s Élégie for solo cello was first performed in 1883. At first, Fauré was looking into writing a cello sonata and it...
Franz Schubert ‘Octet in F’ Op 166 This is Schubert’s largest-scale chamber music work. It is roughly contemporaneous with his “Rosamunde” and “Death and the Maiden” string quartets. Count Ferdinand Troyer commissioned a work similar to Beethoven’s popular Septet, op....
Pavlova Wind Quintet Christmas Concert Light music for a winter afternoon Traditional Christmas Favourites Pavlova Winds Peter Robertson flute Alison Street oboe Barbara Stuart clarinet Jenny Morgan horn Simon Payne bassoon
Programme to include Handel, Purcell, de Falla, Chick Corea, Duke Ellington Cello Trio Jane Fenton Jacqueline Johnson Kath Sharman
The Virtuoso Flute Peter Robertson flute Yoshiko Endo piano Poulenc Flute Sonata Telemann Sonata in f minor Faure Fantaisie Op 79 Something about a Pan ...and something about my hat having 3 corners.
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 The mystic aspect to Rachmaninov’s art can be felt strongly throughout his Cello Sonata, his most famous piece of chamber music. While there are no obvious quotations from any Orthodox hymns, the...