Chamber Music Concerts 2008/2009

This was our 88th season. The musicians were Martin Roscoe, RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet, Alison Balsom and Tom Poster, Victoria Davies and James Turnbull, Doric String Quartet, and Amandine Savary.

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Friday 17th October 2008
Martin Roscoe (piano) (Martin Roscoe's page at Hazard Chase »)
Beethoven
Sonata Op. 14 No. 1
Schubert
Impromptu in G flat major, D. 899 No. 3
Impromptu in A flat major, D. 899 No. 4
Nielsen
Suite Op. 45
Grieg
Sonata Op. 7
Beethoven
Sonata Op. 53, "Waldstein"
Friday 28th November 2008
RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet (Vanbrugh Quartet website »)
Gregory Ellis and Keith Pascoe (violins), Simon Aspell (viola), Christopher Marwood (cello)
Mozart
Quartet in C, "Dissonance" K465
Brahms
Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 51 No. 2
Schumann
Quartet Op. 41 No. 3
Friday 19th December 2008
Alison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano) (Alison Balsom's home page »)
Shchedrin
Á là Albéniz
Francaix
Sonatine
Chopin
Nocturne in B flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
Hindemith
Sonata
Bellini/Arban
Variations on a theme from Norma
Goedicke
Concert Etude
Enescu
Legende
Ravel
Ondine (from Gaspard de la nuit) (solo piano)
da Falla
Seven popular Spanish folk songs
Gershwin
Someone to watch over me
I got rhythm
Friday 16th January 2009
Victoria Davies (harp), (Victoria Davies's page »)
James Turnbull (oboe) (James Turnbull's page »)
Concert generously sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust (Trust home page »)
Bach
Sonata in G minor
Britten
Suite for Harp
Hoddinott
Bagatelles for harp and oboe
Michael Berkeley
Second Still Life for harp and oboe
Britten
Metamorphoses after Ovid
Piazzolla
L'Histoire du Tango
Friday 20th February 2009
Doric String Quartet (Doric String Quartet's website »)
Alex Redington and Jonathan Stone (violins), Simon Tandree (viola), John Myerscough (cello)
Haydn
Quartet in C, Op. 50 No. 2
Janáček
Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
Beethoven
Quartet in E flat major, Op. 74, "Harp"
(replaced the first Rasumovsky, Op. 59 No. 1 due to illness)
Friday 20th March 2009
Amandine Savary (piano) (biography at Amandine Savary's blog »)
Concert generously assisted by Making Music, supporters of voluntary music groups throughout the UK (Making Music home page »)
Messiaen
Le regard du Père, Le regard de l'étoile and L'échange, from Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
Dutilleux
Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Brahms
4 Ballades, Op. 10
Debussy
Estampes