Programme for the 63rd Season 2010-2011
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**STOP PRESS** for children and young people
Open Rehearsal - 3pm 
26th September and Children's Concert  - 3pm 17th April 2011
Sunday 26th September
2010

7.30pm


Pre-concert talk by Bradley Creswick
6.45 pm
Northern Sinfonia

Bradley Creswick  
director / violin
Christopher Richards  clarinet

** 3.00 pm Free Open Rehearsal for children accompanied by parents

Northern Sinfonia will open our new season with a full orchestral concert. This orchestra with its popular director have been welcome visitors to Keswick for many years. Both pieces in the first half of the concert are products of Mozart's last year: the clarinet concerto is one of his most profound and beautiful works. Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 promises an exhilarating conclusion to the evening.

Members are warmly encouraged to bring children to the free Open Rehearsal at 3.00 pm - it will be a normal rehearsal of the evening's programme, but Bradley will talk to the children as he takes the orchestra through the pieces. His humour and love of communicating make it a really enjoyable as well as educational experience.

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Mozart:  Overture 'La Clemenza di Tito'

Mozart:  Clarinet Concerto

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60

Sunday 17th October
2010

7.30 pm

Pre-concert talk by Ian Hare
6.45 pm
Change of Programme
Due to the unavoidable last minute cancellation of Sofya Gulyak’s concert, we present a programme for our October concert which we believe will be equally exciting:

Alessandro Taverna  piano

We are absolutely delighted to have enticed this young and rising Italian pianist, prizewinner and medallist at the 2009 Leeds International Piano Competition and winner of numerous international prizes. Critics have been impressed by his superb technique and sensitive interpretation, and he is much in demand throughout Europe and in the USA. Said by some to be the natural successor to his compatriot Michelangeli, he is noted for his articulate beauty of performance, contagious delight in the music, mesmerising playing, and maturity beyond his years. His programme ranges from Bach through Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin to Stravinsky's exhilarating nad barnstorming movements from Petrouchka arranged for Rubinstein. One reviewer wrote: 'Remember the name - I sjspect we shall be hearing much more of him in the future'. Here's our chance!

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Bach J. S.  English Suite No. 5 in E major, BWV 810

Beethoven:  Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major, Op. 27 No. 1 'Quasi una fantasia'

Liszt:  Tarantelle di Bravura d'après la tarantella de 'La muette de                Portici', S. 386

Chopin:  Nocturne in B major, Op. 62 No. 1

Chopin:  Nocturne in E major, Op.62 No. 2

Chopin:  Scherzo No 4 in E major, Op. 54

Stravinsky:  Trois mouvements de 'Pétrouchka'

Sunday 14th November
2010

7.30 pm

Pre-concert talk by members of the ensemble 6.45 pm



Trio Anton Stadler

Janet Hilton
clarinet


Robin Ireland viola

Sarah Beth Briggs  piano

The Anton Stadler Trio, named after the great clarinettist and friend of Mozart, unites three exceptional performers: Janet Hilton, one of Britain’s foremost clarinettists, with renowned viola player Robin Ireland, formerly of the Lindsay Quartet and virtuoso pianist, Sarah Beth Briggs, one of Janet’s long-standing duo partners who gave the world premier of the Britten Character Pieces played tonight.

Appropriately, Anton Stadler took part in the first performance of this Mozart trio (sadly the evidence for a multi-tasking Mozart composing it whilst playing skittles - kegeln - is sparse!). The viola replaces, as the cello often does, the short-lived Arpeggione for which Schubert wrote this challenging sonata, and the Brahms and Bruch pieces show to the fullest the magical combination of the different timbres of these three instruments.

Bruch:  Pieces 1-4 (Trio)

Britten:  Character Pieces (Solo Piano)

Brahms:  Clarinet Sonata no 1 in F minor

Schubert:  Arpeggione (Viola and Piano.)

Mozart:  Kegelstatt Trio

Sunday 12th December
2010

7.30 pm

Pre-concert talk by members of the Ensemble 6.45 pm



Sally Pryce Ensemble

Sally Pryce  harp  

Laura Lucas  flute,  Elizabeth Cooney  violin 

Reiad Chibah  viola,  Ollie Coates  cello

The virtuoso harpist Sally Pryce formed this ensemble of outstanding players to explore known and unknown masterpieces in the harp chamber music repertoire. For our Christmas concert this unusual combination of instruments plays Debussy's beautiful sonata for flute, viola and harp and Mozart's Flute Quartet, both well loved pieces for these instruments. Quintets full of brilliance and humour by French composers Françaix and Damase begin and end the concert. Takemitsu's dream like piece derives and develops from a theme from the Debussy Sonata. And, of course there'll be something for Christmas.

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Françaix
:  Quintet on themes by Scarlatti


Takemitsu:  Then I knew 'twas wind (fl,vla,hrp)

  
Mozart:  Flute Quartet in D  

Debussy:  Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp 

Damase:  Quintet for violin, viola, cello, flute and harp



Sunday 9th January
2011

7.30 pm

Pre-concert talk by Philip Higham
6.45 pm


Philip Higham  cello
Simon Lane  piano

'A real poet' - selected for representation by the Young Concert Artists Trust in 2009, Philip is rapidly emerging as one of the most outstanding young cellists in the UK. Recently he has won 1st Prize in the 2008 International J. S. Bach Competition in Leipzig, and 1st Prize in the 2009 International Lutoslawski Cello Competition in Warsaw. 

His fascinating and demanding programme includes Beethoven's delightful take on Mozart's melody, which fully captures the spirit of Mozart's opera and Janacek's Pohadka, like a concentrated cello sonata in three movements, based on an epic poem by the Russian Romantic poet Vasily Zhukóvsky. Schumann's Adagio is most romantic partnership between the two instruments while the Allegro finishes in a joyful, unbroken stream of energy. The Sonata is one of Franck's best-known works - originally for violin, the version for cello was approved by Franck and, poetic and turbulent is perfectly suited to the cello's timbre and range. 

Philip Higham plays with award winning pianist Simon Lane who won Accompanists Prize given by the Royal Overseas League Music Competition 2009 as well as being a distinguished soloist in his own right.

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Beethoven:  
12 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen'                             from 'The Magic Flute' by Mozart Op. 66

Janacek:  Pohadka (Fairy Tale)

Schumann:  Adagio and Allegro in A flat Op. 70

Cesar Franck:  Sonata in A



Wednesday 9th February
2011

7.30 pm

Pre-concert talk 6.45 pm
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Antony Pay  clarinet

A great orchestra and a great programme - the OAE is a world renowned orchestra which plays on original instruments to bring out the very best of classical music as it was intended to be heard. Working with some of the world's greatest conductors and soloists across a wide range of music, their pioneering spirit makes every performance an edge-of -the seat experience for performers and audiences alike.

Anthony Pay has been a soloist worldwide, principal clarinettist of many orchestras, played in great chamber ensembles and collaborated with composers since an early age. Weber's clarinet concerto, less well known than some of his other compositions, is a perfect medium for this expressive instrument.

Mendelssohn's brilliant and evocative interpretation of the play is always a delight to hear and Beethoven's 7th Symphony is - 'the apotheosis of the dance' according to Wagner.

This is the sixth Keswick concert in the Orchestras Live Cumbria Series funded nationally by Arts Council England and in Cumbria by a grant from Northern Rock Foundation.

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Mendelssohn:  Overture and incidental music from A Midsummer                              Night’s Dream  

Weber:  Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major

Wednesday 16th February 2011

*7.00 pm


Local Junior Artists' Concert

Not to be missed, we had a full house last year for an evening of amazing variety given by the enthusiastic and gifted young musicians of Keswick. Members will be entertained and thrilled by the talent displayed and the range of music played.

The members' subscription includes this concert, but members' seats are not reserved.

* N.B. Earlier start time
Sunday 20th March
2011

7.30 pm

Pre-concert talk by Krysia Osostowicz  6.45 pm
Dante Quartet

Krysia Osostowicz  
violin,  Giles Francis  violin

Judith Busbridge  viola,  Bernard Gregor-Smith  'cello

A fascinating evening of 'late, great, quartets'
by three great composers. The Dante Quartet, winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best chamber ensemble in 2007, is known for imaginative programming and the spellbinding and emotional intensity of its performances. Their name was chosen to reflect the idea of a great and challenging journey. This concert is such a journey.

The premier of Janacek's programmatic last quartet took place a month after his death. Fauré's 1924 string quartet was also his last work and his only one in the medium, approached with apprehension and excitement in the long shadow of Beethoven. Beethoven's Opus 131, completed in the year before his death was said to have been his own favourite of the group of Late Quartets which summed up his musical pilgrimage.

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Janacek:  Quartet No. 2   Intimate Letters

Fauré:  Quartet in E minor

Beethoven:  Quartet in F major Op.131

Sunday 17th April
2011

7.30 pm


Pre-concert talk by members of the ensemble  6.45 pm
















Sunday 17th April
2011

3pm
(approx. 1 hour duration)
London Concertante 

String and Wind Chamber Ensemble

Adam Summerhayes  violin,  Fenella Humphries  violin

Nick Howson  
viola,  Chris Grist  'cello

Benjamin Griffiths  
double bass,  Mark Smith  French horn

Ursula Leveaux  
bassoon,  Elizabeth Drew  clarinet

For the final concert of our season, we have one of the finest chamber ensembles in the country, its players brought together through a shared passion for chamber music. The group combines flexibility of instrumental grouping, as seen in the different ensembles in this concert, with compelling and exciting performances. With an enviable array of critical acclaim a stunning selection of recordings and performances throughout the UK and Europe, London Concertante is at the forefront of classical performers in the UK.

This is a lovely programme, with Mozart's delightful Quintet written for a friend who was a virtuoso horn player, the wonderful Octet by the brilliant and witty French composer Jean Françaix and Beethoven's Septet. This has always been a popular work and with its mixture of grandeur and intimacy, virtuosity and informality, it will be a happy note on which to end our musical season.

Children's Concert - 3pm

A fantastic opportunity to hear a live orchestra. See all the instruments. Hear lots of instruments playing solos and demonstrating what they can do.

For children of all ages accompanied by an adult. Tickets £3  

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Mozart:  Horn Quintet

Françaix:  Octet

Beethoven:  Septet













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