Recent Concerts
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| Thursday, 18 February, 2010, 8.30pm (Please note change of date) |
Johannes Moser, 'cello
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| Tuesday, 9 February, 2010, 8.30pm |
Christopher Maltman, baritone
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| Monday, 26 October 2009, 8.30pm |
Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet
Mozart, Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478 The Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet, among the few permanent ensembles in this formation, has existed as a chamber-music association of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1985. Its comprehensive repertoire includes a number of significant compositions which are otherwise seldom heard in concert. Along with the Classical, Romantic and classic modern literature, the Philharmonic Piano Quartet consistently programmes music by contemporary composers, works which not infrequently are also dedicated to the ensemble. |
| Monday, 23 November 2009, 8.30pm |
Florestan Trio
Beethoven, Trio in G, Op. 1, no. 2 Florestan is one of the world's leading piano trios. The group stands in the great European tradition of chamber music playing which aims to make the expressive purpose of every detail understood, like the words in a sentence or paragraph - to make the music 'speak'. This approach was epitomised by the violinist Sandor Végh, by whom all three players were taught. In 2000 the Trio was honoured to receive Britain's Royal Philharmonic Society Award for chamber music - the first time this has been given to a piano trio. |
Friday 19 June 2009, 5.00pm, the Theatre, Peterhouse
THE Belcea Quartet, with VALENTIN ERBEN (Alban Berg Quartet)
Haydn Quartet in F sharp minor, Op. 50, no. 4
Beethoven Quartet in F minor, Op. 95
Schubert String Quintet in C major, D. 956
"A world-class ensemble" The Guardian, 23 September 2008
The Belcea Quartet has gained an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the new generation, and make their debut this summer at the Salzburg Festival. They continue to take the British and international chamber music circuit by storm, consistently receiving critical acclaim for their performances. The Quartet was in 1994 and has since been coached by the Chilingirian, Amadeus and Alban Berg Quartets.
The Belcea Quartet has an exclusive recording contract with EMI Classics and won the Gramophone Award for best debut recording in 2001. Subsequent recordings for EMI include Schubert quartets, Brahms' String Quartet Op. 51 No. 1 and second String Quintet with Thomas Kakuska, Fauré's La Bonne Chanson with Ian Bostridge, Schubert's Trout Quintet with Thomas Adès and Corin Long, a double disc of Britten's string quartets, Mozart's “Dissonance” and “Hoffmeister” quartets, and, most recently, the complete Bartók quartets, for which the Quartet was awarded the title Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year by Germany's prestigious Echo Klassik Awards and nominated for a 2008 Gramophone Award.
The Belcea Quartet's international engagements regularly take them to the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts, Lisbon's Gulbenkian, Zurich's Tonhalle, Stockholm's Konzerthuset, Paris' Chatelet and Opera Bastille, Milan's Sala Verdi, New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and San Francisco's Herbst Theatre, and to festivals including Luberon, Istanbul, Trondheim, Lausanne, Salzburg, Mecklenburg, and the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade. In the UK they regularly appear at the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Perth, Bath and Cheltenham festivals, and at the Wigmore Hall where they were resident Quartet from 2001 to 2006. They regularly work with leading instrumentalists including Thomas Adès, Isabelle van Keulen, Michael Collins, Paul Lewis, Imogen Cooper, Yovan Markovitch, Natalie Clein, Piotr Anderszewski and Valentin Erben. Recent collaborations with singers have included performances of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Ann Murray and Simon Keenlyside; Schoenberg's String Quartet no.2 and a new commission by Joseph Phibbs for string quartet and voice with Lisa Milne at Wigmore Hall; Fauré's La Bonne Chanson with Anne Sofie von Otter at the Cité de la Musique, Paris, Respighi's Il Tramonto with Angelika Kirchschlager at the Langeland Festival and with Ian Bostridge at New York's Zankel Hall and Washington's Library of Congress.
Thursday 19th February, 2009, 8.30pm, the Theatre, Peterhouse
Christopher Maltman, baritone
Graham Johnson, piano
Schubert Lieder after Ruckert and Goethe's West Oslicher Divan (1819)
Brahms Lieder Op. 32 after Hafiz
Schubert Lieder after Platen
Brahms Lieder Op. 47
Since winning the Lieder prize at the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1997, Christopher Maltman has built a distinguished career in recital and on the operatic stage. Last summer he made a triumphant debut at the Salzburg Festival in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Other engagements this season include Silvio (I Pagliacci) at the Metropolitan Opera; Marcello at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Orests (Iphigenie en Tauride) at the Hamburg State Operal and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) in Paris.
Tuesday 10th March, 2009, 8.30pm, the Theatre, Peterhouse
Simon TrpČeski, piano
Chopin Mazurkas Op. 24
Mazurka Op. 17, no. 2
Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Funeral March'
Debussy Children's Corner Suite
Prokofiev Toccata in D minor, Op. 11
Sonata No. 7 in B flat, Op. 83
One of the finest young virtuosos of the piano, the Macedonian-born Simon Trpčeski has made a series of acclaimed debut appearances since 2005: with the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, LSO, and, with Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Philharmonia Orchestra. His debut recital, for EMI, received the Editor's Choice and Debut Album awards from Gramophone magazine.
Monday 3 March 2008, 8.30pm, the Theatre, Peterhouse
The Melchior Ensemble
Violins
Zsolt-Tihamér Viscontay
Sasha Sitkovetski
Annabelle Meare
Philippe Honore
Violas
Vicci Wardman
Razvan Popovicci
Cellos
David Cohen
Silver Ainomae
Bach
Ricercare a sei voci from
'The Musical Offering' BWV 1079
Tchaikovsky
String Sextet in D minor
'Souvenir de Florence'
Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat, Opus 20
Tuesday 29 April 2008, 8.30pm, the Theatre, Peterhouse
Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone
Simon Over, Piano
Schumann Dichterliebe, Opus 48
and works by Copeland and Bernstein
Wednesday 19 November 2008, 8.30pm, the Theatre, Peterhouse
Natalie Clein, 'cello and MEMBERS OF THE MELCHIOR ENSEMBLE
Priya Mitchell, violin
Sasha Sitkovetsky, violin
Yuri Zhistlin, viola
Razvan Popovicci, viola
David Cohen, 'cello
Brahms String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, Op. 18
Tchaikovsky Sextet in D minor Op. 70, 'Souvenir de Florence'
Formed in 2006, the Melchior Ensemble is one of Europe's foremost chamber-music ensembles, and established a formidable reputation, particularly in the performance of the Romantic repertoire.
Natalie Clein made her concerto debut at the BBC Proms in 1997, since when she has established herself of one of the finest cellists of her generation, appearing as a soloist with conductors including Sir Charles Mackerras, Gennardi Rozhdestvensky, Heinrich Schiff, and Sir Neville Mariner.
Thursday 8 May 2008, 8.15pm, Trinity College Chapel
The Tallis Scholars Conducted by Peter Phillips
Lassus Omnes de Saba
Phinot Lamentations
Lassus Missa Bel' Amfritrit' altera
Josquin Praeter rerum seriem
Mouton Agnus dei
Josquin Inter natos mulierum
Gombert Eight-part Credo