Nash Ensemble diary for the year ahead
"Quality shows every time... it is the Chelsea or Manchester United of British ensembles... all amazing soloists in their own right."   The Scotsman

Diary - May 2012 to March 2013:

2012

May 28-30, Recordings for NMC  
 
Instrumentation: piano, clarinet & string quartet  
 
Alexander Goehr:
…around Stravinsky
Clarinet Quintet


June 2, Festival de Beauvais, France  
 
Instrumentation: piano, clarinet & string trio  
 
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Faure: Piano Quartet in C minor
Messiaen: Quartet for the end of Time


July 5, Cheltenham Festival  
 
Instrumentation: piano, horn & string trio  
 
Mozart: piano Quartet in G minor
Goehr: Horn Trio (world premiere)
Bridge: Phantasy Piano Quartet
Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat Op.40


July 9-14, Residency at Lofoten Festival, Norway  
 
Instrumentation: piano & string trio  
 
programmes to be confirmed


July 17, Recordings for NMC  
 
Instrumentation: piano, horn, violin  
 
Alexander Goehr:
Horn Trio


July 19 & 20: concerts for the Rheingau Music Festival and Mecklenburg Vorpommern  
 
Instrumentation: soprano, piano, clarinet, violin & cello  
 
Beethoven: Folk Songs for voice & piano trio
Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op.114
Schubert: Shepherd on the Rock
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor  
 
with Christiane Oelze (soprano)


July 26 - August 5: Residency at the Toronto Festival  
 
Instrumentation: piano & string quartet  
 
Programmes to be confirmed


August 27: BBC Lunchtime Prom at Cadogan Hall  
 
Instrumentation: voice, piano, flute, clarinet, harp & string trio  
 
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola & harp
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire


September 22, Wigmore Hall  
 
Dreamers of Dreams  
 
Instrumentation: piano, flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp, string quartet, double bass & percussion  
 
6.00pm:
Bax: Elegiac Trio for flute, viola & harp
Britten: Suite for harp
Bridge: works for string quartet  
 
7.30pm:
Vaughan Williams: Phantasy String Quintet in D minor
Grainger: works for piano trio
Bliss: Rout, Madame Noy & Women of Yueh
Quilter: Three Pastoral Songs for soprano & piano trio
Elgar: String Quartet in E minor Op.83  
 
with Sally Matthews (soprano), Ian Brown (conductor)


September 24: Flanders Festival  
 
Instrumentation: voice, piano, flute & string quartet  
 
Faure: La Bonne Chanson
Debussy: Syrinx
Ravel: Chansons Madecasses
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor Op.57  
 
with Christiane Oelze (soprano)


October 25: Malvern Concert Club  
 
Instrumentation: flute, viola & harp  
 
Works by Ravel, Mozart, Bax, Reade, Piazzolla & Debussy


October 27, Wigmore Hall  
 
Dreamers of Dreams  
 
Instrumentation: tenor, piano & string quartet  
 
7.30pm:
Britten: Three Divertimenti for string quartet
Bridge: Romanze, Cradle Song and Serenade for violin & piano
Warlock: Songs for tenor and string quartet
Elgar: La Capricieuse, Canto Popolare & Sospiri for violin & piano
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge  
 
with John Mark Ainsley (tenor)


November 9: Bath Mozartfest  
 
Instrumentation: 2 violins, 2 violas & cello  
 
Works by Mozart, Mendelssohn & Beethoven


November 11: Bath Mozartfest  
 
Instrumentation: 2 pianos, flute, clarinet, string quartet, double bass & percussion  
 
Programme to include Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals


November 17, Wigmore Hall  
 
Dreamers of Dreams  
 
Instrumentation: tenor, piano & string quartet  
 
6.30pm
Bridge: Miniatures for piano trio
Britten: Temporal Variations for oboe & piano
Vaughan Williams: Six Studies on English Folksong for cello & piano
Ireland: Clarinet Sonata  
 
7.30pm:
Britten: Simple Symphony Op.4
Bridge: Three Songs for voice, viola & piano
Vaughan Williams: 5 Mystical Songs
Alwyn: Pastoral Fantasia for viola & strings
Finzi: Dies Natalis Op.8  
 
with Susan Gritton (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Ian Brown (piano), Lawrence Power (viola), Paul Watkins (conductor)


November 18, Wigmore Hall  
 
Dreamers of Dreams  
 
Instrumentation: 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos  
 
11.30am:
Grainger: Molly on the Shore & Londonderry Air
Bridge: String Sextet
Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat, Op.20


December 4, Wigmore Hall  
 
Instrumentation: tenor, piano & string quartet  
 
7.30pm:
Britten: Les Illuminations Op.18
Britten: Lachrymae Op.48
Britten: Serenade Op.31 for tenor, horn & strings  
 
with Sandrine Piau (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Lawrence Power (viola), Richard Watkins (horn), Martyn Brabbins (conductor)


2012

January 12, Wigmore Hall  
 
Dreamers of Dreams  
 
Instrumentation: tenor, flute, oboe, piano & string quartet  
 
6.30pm
Works by Vaughan Williams, Arnold, Finzi and Britten
7.30pm:
Bax: Oboe Quintet
Elgar: Salut d'amore, Chanson de matin & Chanson de nuit
Warlock: The Curlew
Walton: Anon in Love
Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No.1 in G minor  
 
with Mark Padmore (tenor), Craig Ogden (guitar)


January 15: Cheltenham Music Club  
 
Instrumentation: oboe & string trio  
 
programme to be confirmed


January 19: Tonbridge Music Club  
 
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, string quartet, harp  
 
Mozart: Flute Quartet in D, K285
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola & harp
Francaix: Serenade for flute, string trio & harp
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K581


January 22 & 24: Concerts in Vevey & Brussels  
 
Instrumentation: soprano, flute, piano, string quartet  
 
Mozart: Flute Quartet in C, K285b
Faure: La bonne chanson
Ravel: Chansons Madecasses
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A, Op.81  
 
with with Christiane Oelze (soprano)


February 23, Wigmore Hall  
 
Dreamers of Dreams  
 
Instrumentation: tenor, piano & string quartet  
 
7.30pm:
Bridge: Phantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor
Delius: Violin Sonata No.2
Finzi: By Footpath and Stile
Butterworth: Love blows as the Wind blows
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84  
 
with Christopher Maltman (baritone)


March 16, Wigmore Hall  
 
Dreamers of Dreams  
 
Instrumentation: tenor, flute, oboe, piano & string quartet  
 
3.00pm
Talk and film showings (The Night Mail and Henry V)
7.30pm:
Briten: Sinfonietta Op.1
Britten: Night Mail
Britten: The Way to the Sea
Britten: The Sword in the Stone
Walton: Henry V - a musical scenario  
 
with Martyn Brabbins (conductor)


March 17, Wigmore Hall  
 
Dreamers of Dreams  
 
Instrumentation: piano, clarinet, horn & string quartet  
 
11.30am:
Vaughan Williams: Quintet in D for piano, clarinet, horn, violin & cello
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A, Op.81