Chamber Music Concerts 2011/2012

Welcome to our exciting 91st season. The concerts will take place on October 14th, November 25th, December 16th, January 12th (which is a Thursday), February 17th, and March 16th all at 8pm in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall of the University of York.

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Friday 14th October 2011
Leon McCawley (piano) (Leon McCawley's website »)
Mozart
Sonata in C major, K. 309
Hans Gál
Preludes, from Op. 83: No. 6 in G minor; No. 19 in D major; No. 22 in F sharp minor
Liszt
Three Concert Studies: Il lamento, La leggierezza and Un sospiro
Schubert, arr. Liszt
Three Lieder: Die Junge Nonne; Du bist die Ruh and Auf dem Wasser zu Singen
Brahms
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op. 24
Friday 25th November 2011
Rosalind Ventris (viola) (Rosalind Ventris's website ») and Stephen Gutman (piano)
(because of illness, Stephen replaced James Baillieu (James's page at YCAT ») at short notice)
Hindemith
Sonata for viola solo, Op. 25 No. 1
Schubert
Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821
York Bowen
Phantasy, Op. 54
Brahms
Sonata in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1
Friday 16th December 2011
The Heath Quartet (The Heath Quartet website »)
Oliver Heath and Cerys Jones (violins), Gary Pomeroy (viola), Christopher Murray (cello)
Haydn
String Quartet in B minor, Op. 33 No. 1
Janáček
String Quartet No. 1, Kreutzer Sonata
Beethoven
String Quartet in E flat, Op. 74 Harp
Thursday 12th January 2012
James Turnbull (oboe, cor anglais) (James Turnbull's website ») and Craig White (piano) (information about Craig White »)
Britten
Two Insect Pieces: Grasshopper; The Wasp
Poulenc
Oboe Sonata
Vaughan Williams
Six Studies in English Folk Song (cor anglais and piano)
Edward Longstaff
Aegeus
Finzi, arr. Ferguson
Interlude
Johann Kalliwoda
Morceau de salon, Op. 228
Friday 17th February 2012
Doric String Quartet (Doric Quartet's website »)
Alex Reddington and Jonathan Stone (violins), Simon Tandree (viola), John Myerscough (cello)
Haydn
Quartet in D, Op. 20 No. 4
Chausson
Quartet in C minor, Op. 35
Schubert
Quartet in D minor, D. 810 (Death and the Maiden)
Friday 16th March 2012
Andrew Zolinsky (piano) (Andrew Zolinsky at the RCM »)
Schubert
Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664
Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit
Rachmaninoff
4 Preludes (in G sharp minor Op. 32 No. 12, C sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2, G major Op. 32 No. 5 and B flat major Op. 32 No. 2)
Barber
Piano Sonata

The Society reserves the right to vary the artists or programmes as it may find necessary.