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                   The Second Half of the Season - Spring 2010

 

Monday 18th January: Piano4Hands

The outstanding young piano duo Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa launch the second half of our season with music by Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, McCabe and Ravel.

 

Monday 25th January:  Horses Brawl

Laura Cannell on recorders, fiddle and crumhorn and Adrian Lever on guitar offer a vibrant, engaging and completely spellbinding fusion of folk, medieval and baroque sounds.

 

Monday 1st February:  Travelling by Tuba

The enormously successful duo Chris Cranham and Stewart Death bring a kaleidoscopic entertainment involving Viking horn, sackbut, serpent, didgeridoo, ophicleide, tuba and much more.

 

Monday 8th February: Balint Székely and Mariko Kondo

A virtuosic and charismatic husband-and-wife duo from Hungary and Japan play music for violin and piano by Tartini, Schubert, Bartók and Beethoven.

 

Monday 15th February:  Hannah Marcinowicz

A winner of Making Music’s Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists 2009, Hannah promises an exciting evening of mellifluous sounds with music by Bach, Debussy, Glazunov, Milhaud and more.

 

Monday 22nd February:  The Navarra String Quartet

Yet another fine young British quartet which is pressing all the right buttons and exciting audiences everywhere they play.  Beethoven, Haydn’s Emperor quartet, and Britten No. 2 feature in tonight’s programme.

 

Monday 1st March:  Eleanor Turner and Rowena Calvert

A prize-winning young harp-and-cello partnership present a concert for St. David’s Day with music by Saint-Saëns, Benjamin Frankel, Manuel de Falla, Ravi Shankar, Astor Piazzolla, John Metcalf and Eleanor Turner.

 

Monday 8th March:  The Meryon Trio

Leading clarinettist Angus Meryon returns with cellist Jitka Vlasankova (of the Martinu Quartet) and pianist Richard Saxel to play works by Beethoven, Zemlinsky, Glinka and Brahms.

 

Monday 15th March:  Trio Con Brio Copenhagen

This incredibly gifted Danish-Korean trio has won all the most important chamber music competitions worldwide and has electrified audiences everywhere.  Tonight they play works by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Smetana.

 

Monday 22nd March:  The Ardeo Quartet with Alexander Karpeyev

The young Russian pianist who took us by storm last season returns with a prize-winning young French string quartet, to play the Piano Quintet by César Franck, as well as quartets by Haydn and Debussy.

 

Monday 29th March:  Daniel de Borah

An Australian-born pianist who has impressed critics and listeners alike with his thoughtful and deeply satisfying performances.  He ends the season with a perfect programme of Mozart, Schumann and ballades, mazurkas and a fantasy by Chopin.