Chamber Music Concerts 2007/2008

This was our 87th season. The musicians were the Carducci String Quartet, the Galliard Wind Ensemble, Andrew Brownell, Victoria Simonsen and Ben Powell, the Katona twins, and the Sacconi String Quartet.

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Thursday 11th October 2007
Carducci String Quartet (Carducci Quartet home page »)
Matthew Denton and Michelle Fleming (violins), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Emma Denton (cello)
Haydn
Quartet in D major, op. 20 no. 4
Janáček
Quartet No. 1, Kreutzer Sonata
Beethoven
Quartet in C minor, op. 18 no. 4
Friday 16th November 2007
Galliard Wind Ensemble (Galliard Ensemble »)
Kathryn Thomas (flute), Owen Dennis (oboe), Katherine Spencer (clarinet), Helen Simons (bassoon), Richard Bayliss (horn)
Mozart
Quintet in C minor, K406
Hindemith
Kleine Kammermusik für fünf Bläser
Barber
Summer Music
Holst
Quintet in A flat, op. 14
Paul Patterson
Comedy for Five Winds
Friday 14th December 2007
Andrew Brownell (piano) (Andrew Brownell home page »)
Prizewinner at the 2006 Leeds International Piano Competition
Handel
Suite no. 8 in F minor, HWV 433
Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor, D. 958
Chopin
Ballade no. 3, op. 47
Mazurkas, op. 24
Polonaise-Fantaisie, op. 61
Friday 11th January 2008
Victoria Simonsen (cello), Ben Powell (piano) (Victoria Simonsen's page »)
Concert generously sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust (Trust home page »)
Janáček
Pohádka (A Tale)
Schumann
5 pieces in a Folksong Style, op. 102
Debussy
Cello Sonata
Shostakovich
Cello Sonata, op. 40
Friday 1st February 2008
Katona Twins (guitar duo) (Katona Twins website »)
Mozart/M Guiliani
Overture from La Clemenza di Tito
Bach
French Suite no. 5, BWV 816
Falla
Spanish Dance from La Vida Breve
El amor brujo (excerpts)
De Lucia
Cepa Andaluza
Albéniz
Evocation; El Puerto; Triana
Villa Lobos
Alma Brasileira
Piazzolla
Tango Suite
Friday 14th March 2008
Sacconi String Quartet (Sacconi String Quartet home page »)
Ben Hancox and Hannah Dawson (violins), Robin Ashwell (viola), Cara Berridge (cello)
Haydn
Quartet in G, op. 54 no. 1
Vaughan Williams
Quartet no. 1 in G minor
Ravel
String Quartet