November 6-8th, weekend residency at the Castle Hotel, Taunton
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Instrumentation: piano, clarinet, violin & cello
November 6 evening
Moscheles: Fantasy, Variations & Finale
Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat Op.11
Saint-Saens: Piano Trio in F Op.18
November 7 morning
Milhaud: Suite for clarinet, violin & piano
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op.114
November 7 evening
Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor Op.1 No.3
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
November 8 morning
Lili Boulanger: D'un soir triste & D'un matin de printemps
Saint-Saens: Clarinet Sonata
Ravel: Piano Trio
November 14, Wigmore Hall
L'Invitation au voyage
Instrumentation: piano, flute, clarinet, string quartet, harp
6.00pm:
Lili Boulanger: D'un soir triste & D'un matin de printemps
Debussy: Sonata for cello & piano
Poulenc: Sonata for flute & piano
Saint-Saëns: Tarantelle for flute, clarinet & piano
7.30pm:
Turina: Piano Quartet Op.67
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Canteloube: Songs from the Auvergne for soprano & piano
Granados: Oriental, and Spanish Dance No 5 for solo harp
Ravel: String Quartet
with Sally Matthews (soprano), Ian Brown (piano), Philippa Davies (flute), Richard Hosford (clarinet), Marianne Thorsen (violin), Paul Watkins (cello), Lucy Wakeford (harp)
November 16 Bath Mozartfest, Assembly Rooms, Bath
Instrumentation: piano, string quartet & double bass
Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 No.4 "Sunrise"
Mozart: Piano Concerto in E flat K449
Mahler: Piano Quartet movement
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A d667 "Trout"
November 22-30, concerts in Switzerland and Germany
Instrumentation: Piano, string quartet (and 2nd viola from November 29)
November 23, Bern
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor Op.13
Korngold: Piano Quintet
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat Op.44
November 24, Liestal near Basel
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio Op 11
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A Op 13
Korngold: Piano Quintet in E Op 15
November 29, morning concert in Nyon nr Geneva
Mozart: String Quintet in C minor K406
Brahms: String Quintet in G Op 111
November 30, evening concert in Geneva
Mozart: String Quintet in C minor K406
Brahms: String Quintet in F Op.88
Brahms: String Quintet in G Op.111
December 5 at 7.30pm, Wigmore Hall
L'Invitation au voyage
Instrumentation: soprano, piano, flute, harp, string quartet & double bass
7.30pm:
Fauré: Dolly Suite for piano duet
De Falla: Trois Mélodies for voice & piano
De Falla: Psyché for voice, flute, string trio and harp
Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello
Debussy: Danses Sacrée et Profane for harp, string quartet and bass
Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
with Karen Cargill (soprano), Lucy Wakeford (harp)
January 16 at 7.30pm, Wigmore Hall
L'Invitation au voyage
Instrumentation: piano duet, flute, clarinet, string quartet, double bass, percussion
7.30pm:
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite for piano duet
Fauré: Piano Quartet in G minor Op.45
Chabrier: Habañera & España for 2 pianos
Turina: Piano Sextet Op.7 'Scène Andalouse'
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
with Patricia Routledge (reciter tbc), Ian Brown (piano), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
January 19, Leeds International Concert Series
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Instrumentation: wind quintet & piano
Dukas: Vilanelle for horn & piano
Saint-Saens: Bassoon Sonata
Dutilleux: Oboe Sonata
Debussy: Syrinx
Poulenc: Flute Sonata
Messiaen: Movement from Catalogue d'Oiseaux
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin arr. for wind quintet
Poulenc: Sextet for piano and wind quintet
February 7, Wigmore Hall Coffee Concert
L'Invitation au voyage
Instrumentation: piano, flute, trumpet, string quartet, double bass, harp
11.30am:
Ravel: Sonatine (arranged for flute, viola & harp)
Debussy: Syrinx
Saint-Saëns: The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
Ropartz: Prélude, Marine et Chansons
Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio in F Op.18
with Ian Brown (piano), Philippa Davies (flute), Marianne Thorsen (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Richard Lester (cello)
February 20, Wigmore Hall
L'Invitation au voyage
Instrumentation: voice, piano, string quartet
6.00pm:
Duruflé: Prélude, récitatif et variations Op.3
Fauré: Elégie Op.24; Romance Op.69; Papillon Op.77
Ravel: Pièce en forme de habanera
Debussy: Sonata for violin & piano
7.30pm:
Turina: La Oración del Torrero Op.34 for string quartet
Chabrier: Mélodies for voice & piano
Ravel: Piano Trio
Ravel: Chanson Espagnol & Chanson Française
Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Fauré: Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor Op.15
with Christopher Maltman (baritone), Ian Brown (piano), Philippa Davies (flute), Marianne Thorsen (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Paul Watkins (cello)
March 6, Wigmore Hall
L'Invitation au voyage
Instrumentation: piano, guitar, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, harp, string quartet, double bass, percussion
6.00pm:
Early evening concert - Flamenco music performed by Paco Peña
7.30pm:
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (3 movements arr. for wind quintet)
De Falla: Seven Spanish Folksongs for voice and guitar
De Falla: The Magistrate and the Miller's Wife (Act 1)
Paco Peña: Flamenco Music
De Falla: El Amor Brujo
with Catherine Wyn Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Paco Peña (guitar), Paul Watkins (conductor)
March 7, Wigmore Hall Coffee Concert
L'Invitation au voyage
Instrumentation: reciter, piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet, double bass, harp, percussion
7.30pm:
Françaix: A huit
Fauré: Dolly Suite (arranged for wind quintet)
Ibert: Deux Interludes for flute, viola & harp
Poulenc: Babar the Elephant
with Eleanor Bron (reciter)
March 24, Wigmore Hall
6.00pm:
Sir Harrison Birtwistle in conversation with Tom Service
7.30pm:
Sir Harrison Birtwistle 75th Birthday Concert
Instrumentation: soprano, piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, string quartet, double bass, harp, percussion, conductor
Birtwistle: Five Distances for wind quintet
Carter: Poems of Louis Zukofsky for soprano & clarinet (UK premiere)
Birtwistle: new work for flute, clarinet, harp & string quartet
Birtwistle: Duets for Storab
Birtwistle: The Woman and the Hare
Birtwistle: Tragoedia
with Claire Booth (soprano), Julia Watson (reciter), Philippa Davies (flute), Helen Keen (flute),
Richard Hosford (clarinet), Lionel Friend (conductor)
April 13, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
Part of an LPO/SbC Bernstein Festival
Instrumentation: piano, clarinet, 3 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass, conductor
Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata
Gershwin: Lullaby for string quartet
Copland: Sextet for piano, clarinet & string quartet
Bernstein: Meditations for cello & piano
John Adams: Shaker Loops for strings
with Ian Brown (conductor)
April 21-24, Concerts in Germany
April 22: Stuttgart
April 23: Bonn
Instrumentation: flute, piano, violin, viola, cello
Martinu: Flute Trio
Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat K 493
Haydn: flute trio in D Hob HXV 16
Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor Op.25
June 19-20, Wigmore Hall
Music In Theresienstadt-Terezin 1941-1945
A weekend exploring music by composers incarcerated in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1945. Concerts will include works by Victor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas and Hans Krasa. The weekend will include a song recital; chamber concerts; films; talks; and an exhibition of drawings by children who were in the camp.
with Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Lionel Friend (conductor)
Saturday 19 June at 4.00pm
Film focusing on the music played and composed in Terezin (1941-45)
Saturday 19 June at 5.15pm
Talk to include Terezin survivors Zdenka Fantilova (atcress) and Helga Weissova (artist) as well as Simon Broughton (film director) and Nigel Osborne (composer).
Saturday 19 June at 7.30pm
Domazlicky: Song without Words (string quarrtet)
Songs for voice & piano by Ilse Weber, Adolf Strauss & Carlo Taube
Gideon Klein: String Trio
Songs for voice & piano by Viktor Ullmann and Sikmund Schul
Hans Krasa: Passacaglia & Fugue for string trio
Hans Krasa: Tanze for string trio
Songs for voice & piano by Karel Svenk, Adolf Strauss, Otto Skutecky
Sunday 20 June at 3.30pm
Janacek: String Quartet No.1 "Kreutzer Sonata"
Pavel Haas: String Quartet No.2 with percussion "The Monkey Mountains"
Sunday 20 June at 6.00pm
Film showing of Hans Krasa's children's opera "Brundibar" plus discussion (Bechstein Room)
Sunday 20 June at 7.30pm
Smetana: The Bartered Bride (arr. D Matthews)
Hans Krasa: Brundibar Suite (arr. Petr Pokorny)
Viktor Ullmann: Piano Sonata No.6 Op.49
Hans Krasa: 3 Songs for baritone, clarinet, viola & cello
Josef Suk: Meditations on the old Bohemian Chorale Saint Wenceslas
Schullhoff: Duo for violin & cello
Pavel Haas: 4 Songs to Chinese Poetry (arr. for voice & ensemble by Jan van Wlijmen) (UK premiere)
Theresienstadt-Terezin 1941-1945
The name Theresienstadt - or Terezin to give it is Czech name - has become synonymous with the greatest propaganda lie in the Nazi's reign of terror. Virtually the whole of the Jewish cultural elite was forced to live in the concentration camp located 60km from Prague.
The Nazis used the camp as a showcase, allowing inmates to stage a whole range of entertainments, including plays, concerts, operas, cabaret and cafe concerts, for the entertainment of visitors who even included the International Red Cross.
In reality the prisoners were being starved, which combined with hard labour meant a daily struggle for survival. There could be no greater contrast between this and the extraordinary varied an creative work produced by the camp inmates.
The Nash weekend seeks to offer a reminder of these struggles through the presentation of films and talks (which include conversations with camp survivers), a childrens art exhibition, and the performance of works by composers whose exceptional talent was so cruelly cut short. Ultimately the Ensemble celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over adversity and intolerance.
July 4-12, Lofoten Festival, Norway Instrumentation: piano, violin, viola, cello Programme to be finalised
August 1-4, St Olav Festival, Norway Instrumentation: piano, violin, viola, cello Programme to be finalised
August 27, Edinburgh International Festival Morning concert Instrumentation: piano, wind quintet, string quartet, double bass & harp Programme to be finalised