Perth Concert Hall Classical Season Brochure 2015:2016 by Horsecross Arts

Classical Season 2015 2016

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In our 10th Anniversary year we are delighted to present this brochure which is an overview of the musical riches available in Perth over the course of the 2015-2016 season.

There are, as always, a number of highlights. We celebrate our 10th Anniversary with a concert by BBC SSO and Alison Balsom. The Perth Concert Series is as strong as ever with conductors including Donald Runnicles, Thomas Dausgaard and Emmanuel Krivine. Perth Piano Sundays enters its third season with artists including Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne and our ever popular lunchtime series includes visits by the Danish String Quartet, Dunedin Consort and Hebrides and Scottish Ensembles.

die Walküre Sun 6 Sep: 3pm • Perth Concert Hall

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A concert performance supported by staged lighting and image projection. Peter Selwyn, conductor Matthew Rooke, producer, Maltings Berwick Will Conway, producer, Hebrides/NYOS

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Siegmund Sieglinde Hunding Wotan Fricka/Waltraute Brünnhilde Helmwige Rossweisse

Add in to this Wagner’s die Walküre in September and Così fan tutte from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in January and we think this is a season with something for everyone.

Berwick Festival Opera in association with The Maltings Theatre Productions, NYOS Camerata and Hebrides Ensemble presents

A Scottish exclusive opportunity toexperience Wagner’s most popular Ring opera in the acclaimed Jonathan Dove re-orchestration for 15 players. For those who love Wagner this is an opportunity not to be missed. For those who are yet to discover how intoxicating this music is, die Walküre is the perfect gateway into Wagner’s extraordinary world of ravishing sound and unforgettable myth.

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Perth Chamber Music Society has planned a strong season and we are very excited about our two chamber music residencies; firstly Nicola Benedetti and Friends in October and in February a weekend with the world renowned Quatuor Mosaïques around Mozart’s String Quartets dedicated to Haydn.

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We hope that having the major strands of programming in one brochure will help you to plan your own individual concert seasons.

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Nicola Benedetti

Thu 17 Sep: 7.30pm • Perth Concert Hall £32.50, £29, £20; concessions £30, £26.50, £17.50 (+£1 booking fee per ticket)

Vivaldi Four Seasons Vivaldi Concerto Grosso Mogul Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence

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We welcome one of the world’s best loved violinists with an irresistible programme of two masterpieces inspired by Italy. Nicola Benedetti has now established herself as one of classical music’s most prominent violinists, collaborating with major orchestras all over the world. She is also credited with broadening the appeal of classical music to young and new audiences through her extensive education work. Sponsored by r

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Alison Balsom plays Haydn Fri 18 Sep: 7.30pm • Perth Concert Hall

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Sibelius Finlandia Haydn Trumpet Concerto Rachmaninov Symphony No 2

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Eivind Aadland, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet

In its 10 year life Perth Concert Hall has welcomed many of today’s most exciting classical artists. None is more celebrated than world-leading trumpeter Alison Balsom, a three-time winner at the Classic Brits and a truly charismatic virtuoso. She returns to Perth for the fourth time in a truly irresistible programme with the brilliant BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra which opens with Sibelius’s stirring hymn to Finnish nationalism and closes with perhaps the most romantic symphony of all.

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Nicola Benedetti, violin/director

Nicola Benedetti in Recital Fri 23 Oct: 7.30pm • Perth Concert Hall

£23, £20, £15; concessions £21, £18, £13 (+ £1.50 booking fee per ticket) • under 26s/students £5 Beethoven Violin Sonata No 9 in A ‘Kreutzer’ Mozart Violin Sonata in F K 377 Brahms Violin Sonata No 2 in A

Nicola Benedetti, violin Alexei Grynyuk, piano

£12; no concessions (+ £1.50 booking fee per ticket) • under 26s/students £5 Beethoven Cello Sonata Op 5 No 2 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata

Leonard Elschenbroich, cello Alexei Grynyuk, piano

Leonard Elschenbroich has a stellar career as soloist and chamber musician. Here he performs two masterpieces with the Rachmaninov being one of the most compelling and haunting pieces in the cello repertoire. ‘Mr. Elschenbroich... a musician of great technical prowess, intellectual curiosity and expressive depth...’ New York Times ‘Grynyuk’s nonchalant, fine-spun brilliance somehow captures the music’s diablerie’ Gramophone

Nicola Benedetti & Friends Fri 23 - Sun 25 Oct • Perth Concert Hall

Nicola Benedetti leads a wonderful weekend of music-making at Perth Concert Hall in a UK exclusive project. She is joined by three other world-class musicians in three concerts presenting some of the very finest chamber music ever composed. This weekend will be one of the highlights of the 2015 UK musical calendar. ‘Nicola Benedetti plays musical phrases with a natural instinct for shape and contour, so that one almost forgets the sinewy golden sound and immaculate polish’ Review of Sydney Opera House Recital In co-production with

Brahms Piano Quartet

Sat 24 Oct: 7.30pm • Perth Concert Hall

£23, £20, £15; concessions £21, £18, £13 (+ £1.50 booking fee per ticket) • under 26s/students £5 Mozart Piano Trio in C major, K548 Brahms Piano Trio in B major, Op 8 Brahms Piano Quartet No.2 in A major

Nicola Benedetti, violin Scott Dickinson, viola Leonard Elschenbroich, cello Alexei Grynyuk, piano

BBC SSO Principal Viola Scott Dickinson joins the team for Brahms’s vibrant A major Piano Quartet to conclude a programme which opens with two masterpieces of the piano trio repertory.

Benedetti Session

Sun 25 Oct: 4pm • Perth Concert Hall £5; concessions £3

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Sat 24 Oct: 12 noon • Perth Concert Hall

Our residency finishes with Nicola Benedetti working on Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending with children from Perth and Kinross as well as from Sistema Scotland’s project in Stirling.

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Great Cello Sonatas

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A thrilling programme to open Nicola Benedetti’s residency. One of Beethoven’s finest pieces of chamber music is combined with the fiery romanticism of Brahms and the classical charm and poise of Mozart.

Lunchtime

1pm • Perth Concert Hall

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advance (until 12 noon on the day): £7; concessions £6 • after 12noon on day of concert: £8; no concessions Add soup and a sandwich for just £3.75 (book until 11am on the day)

Dunedin Consort

Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op 54 No 2 Nielsen String Quartet in E flat-major Op 14

Mon 23 Nov: 1pm

Mon 21 Sep: 1pm

The Danish String Quartet celebrate Nielsen’s 150th Anniversary. Their brilliance and verve will also be seen in one of Haydn’s most charming quartets. This concert is presented in co-production with BBC Radio 3.

Susan Tomes

plays Beethoven Mon 19 Oct: 1pm

A break from work, a pause from shopping or an outing in itself; just three good reasons to join us for an hour of music in the middle of your day. Take up our lunch offer and you will have refreshment for body and soul!

Beethoven Bagatelles Op 126, no’s 1, 2 and 3 Beethoven Sonata in E Op 109

Susan Tomes, piano

Susan Tomes introduces us to Beethoven’s wonderful E major sonata opus 109, with examples played and explained before she gives a complete performance of the work

Schubert’s Winterreise Mon 16 Nov: 1pm

Nicholas Mulroy, tenor Alistair Hogarth, piano Schubert’s greatest song cycle is performed by Nicholas Mulroy, celebrated for his performances of the Evangelist in the Bach Passions with the Dunedin Consort.

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Bach Violin Concerto in A minor Bach Violin Concerto in E major Bach Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor

Dunedin Consort Cecilia Bernardini, violin Huw Daniel, violin John Butt, director Cecilia Bernardini performed unaccompanied Bach last year to great acclaim. She is joined by the brilliant Dunedin Consort in all of Bach’s solo violin concertos including the remarkable double concerto with its heartrendingly beautiful slow movement.

Members of the SCO Mon 18 Jan: 1pm

Bax Elegiac Trio Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp Takemitsu And Then I Knew ‘Twas Wind Ravel (arr.Salzedo) Sonata en Trio

Alison Mitchell, flute Jane Atkins, viola Eleanor Johnston, harp

Debussy’s Sonata makes full use of the ravishing sounds offered by the combination of flute, viola and harp. Two brilliant soloists from the SCO are joined by virtuoso harpist Eleanor Johnston.

Chamber music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Mon 8 Feb: 1pm

Join the RCS for a programme featuring the top musical talent from the Conservatoire.

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Scottish Ensemble Mon 22 Feb: 1pm

Mozart String Quintet No 4 in G minor K516 Brahms String Quintet No 2 in G major Op 111

Mozart wrote very little in G minor, reserving it for his most emotionally searing music.

Hebrides Ensemble Mon 7 Mar: 1pm

Ravel Piano Trio Takemitsu Between Tides Debussy (arr Beamish) La Mer

Wonderful melodies and romanticism are at the core of Ravel’s fabulous piano trio. The concert also includes an audacious reworking of Debussy’s majestic La Mer for piano trio.

Jonathan Manson plays Bach

Mon 18 Apr: 1pm

Bach: Suite No 3 in C major BWV 1009 Suite No 4 in E flat major BWV 1010

Jonathan Manson, cello John Butt, speaker

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A lunchtime experience that will make your day

Jonathan Manson’s solo playing has lit up the Dunedin Consort’s performances of the Bach Passions. Here he plays two of Bach’s great cellos suites and, as a bonus, discusses with John Butt whether these suites may have in fact been written by Bach’s wife Anna Magdalena!

Alisdair Hogarth in recital Mon 16 May: 1pm

Smetana 3 Polkas Chopin Ballade No 3 Rachmaninov Variations on a theme of Chopin

Alisdair Hogarth, piano

A programme of unashamed romanticism and virtuosity!

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Sibelius Symphony No 5 Sibelius Symphony No 6 Sibelius Symphony No 7

Brahms Variations on a theme of Joseph Haydn Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Wagner Siegfried Idyll Schubert Symphony No 8 ‘Unfinished’

Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No 5 R. Strauss Suite from ‘Der Rosenkavalier’

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune James MacMillan Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No 6 P ‘ astoral’

Emmanuel Krivine, conductor Karen Cargill, mezzo soprano

Jean-Claude Picard, conductor Boris Giltburg, piano

Famed for the elegance and energy of his colourful performances, SCO Principal Guest Conductor Emmanuel Krivine, directs the SCO in a powerful programme of richly Romantic music. The Orchestra play Wagner’s touchingly tuneful Siegfried Idyll and renowned Scottish Mezzo-Soprano Karen Cargill sings the intensely expressive Wesendonck Lieder. Krivine opens with the infectious jollity of Brahms’s gloriously melodious St AnthonyVariations, and closes with the high drama of Schubert’s Unﬁnished Symphony.

Rachmaninov’s Second is surely the world’s most romantic piano concerto and with soloist Boris Giltburg, it’s the passionate heart of a Valentine’s concert that’s much more than just a brief encounter. Gustav Mahler sends a tender love-letter to his beautiful young wife; under the blue skies of Italy, Tchaikovsky dreams of dark eyes and scented nights; and in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, a silver rose is the key to love at first sight. If music is the food of love, then this is a Michelin-starred banquet!

The University of Edinburgh’s Elaine Kelly provides insights into the programme (free to ticket holders).

Manus Carey (RSNO Executive Producer) in conversation with Jean-Claude Picard (free to ticket holders).

Fri 9 Oct: 7.30pm

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor ‘Other composers mix brightly-coloured cocktails’ said Jean Sibelius. ‘I offer pure, cool water’. From the radiant sunrise that opens the Fifth to the deep tranquillity of the Sixth and the windswept peaks of the Seventh, Sibelius’s last three symphonies are like a force of nature. For the BBC SSO’s Chief Conductor-Designate, Thomas Dausgaard, this is music that can transform the very way you hear the world; ‘at once monumental and intimately personal’ is how one critic described his approach to Sibelius. Under Dausgaard’s direction, this single-evening Sibelius trilogy will be an exhilarating journey through one of the 20th century’s greatest and most inspiring musical minds. An unmissable start to the series!

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Thomas Dausgaard discusses Sibelius (free to ticket holders).

Wed 4 Nov: 7.30pm

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Donald Runnicles, conductor Vadim Repin, violin

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James MacMillan dedicated his Violin Concerto to the memory of his mother and, as one critic put it, ‘this is a work so full of ideas that you might wonder if he couldn’t have written two concertos’. In the hands of its dedicatee, Vadim Repin, it’s an arresting companion-piece for Beethoven’s much-loved (and deceptively relaxed) Pastoral Symphony, and the quiet revolution of Debussy’s sensuous Prélude; works chosen by Donald Runnicles both to complement, and to strike sparks off each other.

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Vadim Repin in conversation (free to ticket holders).

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Rachmaninov Caprice bohémien Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 4 (for the Left Hand) Prokofiev Suite from C ‘ inderella’

Mussorgsky Khovantchina Prelude: ‘Dawn on the Moskva River’ Sibelius Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No 3 ‘Eroica’

Alexander Lazarev, conductor Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Emmanuel Krivine, conductor Tedi Papavrami, violin

Join the RSNO as it celebrates its 125th Anniversary with two contrasting pieces from its ‘birthday’ composer Prokofiev, who was born in the same year the Orchestra was founded. Glass slippers, ugly sisters and fairy godmothers... Cinderella was a natural subject for a musical storyteller like Sergei Prokofiev, and if you love Romeo and Juliet, you’ll be enchanted by this, his most magical ballet score. The RSNO’s Bolshoi-trained Conductor Emeritus Alexander Lazarev brings out the gypsy in Rachmaninov, and Nikolai Lugansky shares Prokofiev’s rarelyheard Fourth Concerto. It’s insanely difficult, but don’t worry, Lugansky could play it with one hand behind his back!

Respected equally for the power and the poetry of his searing performances, exceptional Albanian violinist Tedi Papavrami joins the SCO for one of the most evocative works in the violin repertoire, Sibelius’s compelling Violin Concerto. Principal Guest Conductor Emmanuel Krivine opens the concert with Mussorgsky’s atmospheric Khovantchina Prelude and closes with Beethoven at his most heroic in the noble passions of the great Eroica Symphony.

Thu 14 Apr: 7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk: 6.45pm

Ursula Heidecker Allen (RSNO Violin) (free to ticket holders).

Wed 11 May: 7.30pm

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Steven Osborne

Tom Poster

Haydn Piano Sonata in D major Hob.XVI:24 L 39 Brahms Theme and Variations Op18 (piano version from string sextet) Bartok Out of Doors Suite Haydn Piano Sonata in B minor Hob.XVI:32 L 47 Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude S173 No.3 Wagner (arr.Liszt) Tannhäuser Overture

Schubert Impromptus D935 No 1 and No 4 Debussy Masques Debussy Images Debussy L’ile joyeuse Rachmaninov Etudes Tableaux

Beethoven Sonata in E flat major Op 7 Schumann Waldszenen Op 82 Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op 52 Mendelssohn Songs Without Words (selection) Ravel La valse

In the last few years Denis Kozhukhin has become one of the most exciting performers on the international concert circuit. His programme today ranges from the charming classicism of Haydn to the extraordinary virtuosity of Liszt’s transcription of Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture.

3pm • Perth Concert Hall

Join us for our third season as some of the world’s finest pianists visit Perth for this exceptional series of piano concerts on a Sunday afternoon. Join us for a carvery lunch beforehand to make the perfect day out in our fair city.

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‘there are not enough stars in the heavens to recognise adequately the calibre of the extraordinary musical experience slammed at its capacity audience’ The Herald

Piers Lane

Sun 8 Nov: 3pm

Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat K333 Beethoven Piano Sonata Op 57 Appassionata’ ‘ Chopin 4 Scherzos

Piers Lane is one of the most treasured recitalists of today performing regularly at the Wigmore Hall and other major international venues such as the Carnegie in New York and at the Proms. He is particularly celebrated for his performances of Chopin. ‘no praise could be high enough for Piers Lane whose playing throughout is of a superb musical intelligence, sensitivity, and scintillating brilliance’ Bryce Morrison, Gramophone

Sun 31 Jan: 3pm

Steven Osborne is quite simply one of the finest pianists in the world. Two times Gramophone Award Winner his range of repertoire both in recital and concerto is remarkable. ‘vast technical command was balanced by penetrating insight and an expressivity that seems to derive from a more than usually empathetic instinct’ The Guardian

Alasdair Beatson Sun 28 Feb: 3pm

Mozart Sonata in A minor K310 Janáček Sonata 1.X.1905 D. Scarlatti 5 Sonatas Scriabin Sonata No 5

Alasdair Beatson is developing a wonderful series of beautifully planned programmes. Here Mozart’s grief-stricken but controlled classicism is contrasted with the quirky brilliance of Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas, and Janáček’s austere expressionism counterbalances the hedonistic luxury of Scriabin’s intoxicating harmonies. ‘Beatson’s non-showy, secure technique is very impressive, and there is a definition and rhythmic incisiveness to his performing style that draws you into the music. Roll on his next recital.’ Classical Source Perth Piano Sundays are sponsored by

Sun 27 Mar: 3pm

Winner of the Scottish Piano Competition, Tom Poster is now in considerable demand as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist with orchestras including the SCO, The Hallé and the European Union Chamber Orchestra. ‘his versatility and unerring sense of what works best marks him out as a musician’s musician and everyone in the business should be beating a path to his door’ Seen and Heard International

Paul Lewis

Sun 8 May: 3pm

Brahms Four Ballades Op 10 Schubert Sonata for Piano No 9 in B major D575 (1817) Brahms Three Intermezzi Op 117 Liszt Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata

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Denis Kozhukhin

We are delighted to welcome Paul Lewis back to Perth Concert Hall. His series of Schubert recitals were highlights of recent years and his career has now reached the highest pinnacles of world renown. The programme includes both early and late Brahms and concludes with Liszt’s spectacular Dante Sonata to finish our series in a blaze of brilliant virtuosity.

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Sundays

Scottish Chamber Orchestra New Year in Vienna Sun 3 Jan: 3pm • Perth Concert Hall

£25.00, £22.00, £19.50, £16.00, £11.50 (+£1.50 booking fee per ticket); under 26s/students £5

Three Pärts Bach: Concert by Candlelight Sat 12 Dec: 7.30pm • St John’s Kirk

£12 (+ £1.50 booking fee per ticket); students £5; under 16s free (when accompanied by a paying adult)

Pärt Fratres Bach Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041 Bach Chorale: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein (from Art of Fugue) Gubaidulina Meditation über der Bach Chorale: Vor deinen Thron tret ich hier mit Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 Pärt Collage über Bach - Toccata Bach Contrapunctus XIX (from Art of Fugue BWV 1080) Pärt Summa Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3

Matthew Truscott, guest director/solo violin The meditative, cyclic, cascading notes of Bach hold a subtle power. As musicians begin to play by the soft light of candles, as well as other specially-created lighting touches designed to add to the mesmeric effect, they will fill and transform the space. Add to this slices of spiritual calm, in the form of Arvo Pärt’s cinematic violins, as well as the surprise of Sofia Gubaidulina’s eerie homage to the Baroque master, and the overall effect is one of meditation, reflection and immersion. With his specialist knowledge and passion for period instrument performance, we are delighted to welcome Matthew Truscott as guest director and solo violinist in two Bach concerti.

Così fan tutte Tue 26 Jan: 7pm • Perth Concert Hall

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Scottish Ensemble

Is there any finer way to greet the New Year than with a sparkling, traditional Viennese gala concert? Join the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for beautiful violin playing and irresistible Strauss waltzes and polkas from the Blue Danube and the Tritsch-Tratsch to the Pizzicato and Thunder & Lightning polkas. This is music to brighten up the darkest days and send you off with a spring in your step!

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Timothy Dean, conductor • Nicolette Molnar, director

Semi-staged performance, performed in Italian with English supertitles Following last year’s vibrant performance of The Marriage of Figaro we present Mozart’s masterpiece of crossed love and indeed cross dressing! While Così fan tutte is a comedy it also contains depths of bitterness and yearning which are reflected in one of the most brilliant operas ever written containing some of Mozart’s most winning arias and brilliant ensembles.

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Brahms Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor Rossini Overture: T‘ he Thieving Magpie’ Massenet Meditation from T‘ haïs’ C Schumann (arr. Swensen) Three Romances Grieg Morning (from Peer Gynt Suite) Dvorak Slavonic Dance No 1 and your favourite Viennese waltzes and polkas!

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Joseph Swensen, director/violin

Fri 12 - Sun 14 Feb | Perth Concert Hall

with Susan Tomes

‘The world’s premier period-instrument quartet’

The Independent

Mozart’s String Quartets dedicated to Haydn are at the pinnacle of the classical repertoire. Haydn and Mozart’s mutual admiration is well known - they even played chamber music together. This friendship is witnessed by Mozart’s charming dedication ‘a father who had resolved to send his children out into the great world took it to be his duty to confide them to the protection and guidance of a very celebrated Man’. This UK exclusive weekend presents the complete set performed by Quatuor Mosaïques, indisputably the world’s leading string quartet performing on period instruments. They are joined by Susan Tomes, well known to Perth audiences for her stunning series of recitals with the quartet’s leader Erich Höbarth. The Mozart is set in context by music by the dedicatee Haydn. As well as the string quartets, the weekend also includes a recital by Susan Tomes and ends in a blaze of brilliance with Mozart’s A major Piano Concerto K414 in Mozart’s own version for piano and string quartet.

Fri 12 Feb: 7.30pm

Sat 13 Feb: 7.30pm

Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Haydn Piano Trio in E minor VX:12 Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421

Mozart String Quartet in E flat K428 Haydn String Quartet Op 33 No 1 in G Mozart String Quartet K458 in B flat ‘Hunt’

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The irresistible exuberance of the G major quartet is contrasted by the sober classicism of the D minor and they frame one of Haydn’s masterful piano trios.

Sat 13 Feb: 12 noon

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HaydnVariations in F minor ( u‘ n piccolo divertimento’) Haydn Sonata in E flat Hob XVI:52 Mozart Rondo in A minor K511

‘…this was some of the most intuitive, candid and affectionate ensemble playing I’ve heard …..together, she and Höbarth gelled seamlessly and inspired real playfulness: the artful junctions between phrases, the cheerful buoyancy of dance rhythms, the shared joy in virtuosity that neither took too seriously’ The Guardian on Susan Tomes and Erich Höbarth BOOK ALL FOUR CONCERTS AT THE SAME TIME AND PAY £68; concessions £60 (+ £1.50 booking fee per ticket)

Susan Tomes’s recital demonstrates Haydn’s influence on Mozart with the A minor Rondo being clearly inspired by the composer’s great friend.

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A programme of three great string quartets; the inward looking E flat quartet is counterbalanced by the bucolic joviality of the Hunt. They frame one of Haydn’s finest quartets.

Sun 14 Feb: 7.30pm

£20; concessions £18 (+ £1.50 booking fee per ticket); £5 under 26s/students Mozart String Quartet in A K464 Mozart String Quartet in C K465 D ‘ issonance’ Mozart Piano Concerto K414 in A

The Dissonance quartet has one of the most extraordinary openings in all music. The weekend ends with a performance of one of the concertos which Mozart arranged for piano and quartet for small scale performances.

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Quatuor Mosaïques

£12 (+ £1.50 booking fee per ticket); £2 students and disabled. Buy for all six concerts and pay £48 (+ £1.50 booking fee per ticket)

The Schubert Ensemble Tue 6 Oct: 7.30pm

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The Schubert Ensemble is made up of some of Britain’s finest chamber musicians. This programme contains two richly satisfying romantic works as well as a new work from one of today’s leading composers.

The Brodsky Quartet Wed 11 Nov: 7.30pm

Borodin Scherzo in D major from ‘Les Vendredis’ Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op 74 Harp Shostakovich String Quartet No 5 in B flat Op 92

The sparkling Brodsky Quartet offer a richly varied programme including Russian sparkle from Borodin, the brilliance of Beethoven’s Harp Quartet and the emotional power of Shostakovich. ‘they are one of a handful of string quartets that have come to represent an elite… ensemble’ The Herald

Passacaglia Baroque Ensemble Mon 30 Nov: 7.30pm

Selection of baroque music by Handel, Bach, Telemann, Marais, Couperin and Geminiani. Passacaglia are a UK-based ensemble specialising in music from the baroque era, played in authentic style on recorders, flutes, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord. ‘the best… performances… recreate the spirit as well as the sound of the music, and… Passacaglia do just that’ Gramophone

Butterworth Six Songs from A ‘ Shropshire Lad’ Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

James Gilchrist, tenor Anna Tilbrook, piano James Gilchrist’s song recitals are widely renowned for the beauty of his singing and the emotional magnetism of his interpretations. This evening includes two wonderful cycles which deal with love and loss in contrasting but complementary ways.

Trio Isimisz

Tue 16 Feb: 7.30pm

Schubert Notturno in E flat D897 Beethoven Piano Trio Op 70 No 2 Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor Op 65

Formed in 2009 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Trio Isimsiz have given recitals throughout the UK including the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, and the Royal Festival Hall. Their programme is a generous one, offering haunting Schubert, large scale Beethoven and irresistibly romantic Dvorak.

Aurea String Quartet Fri 11 Mar: 7.30pm

Haydn Quartet in A Op 55 No1 Mendelssohn Quartet No 3 in D Op 44 No1 Britten Three Divertimenti for string quartet Schumann Quartet in A Op 41 No 3 (the programme may be subject to change)

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Huw Watkins Piano Quartet (commissioned 2012) Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op 47 Brahms Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor

Fri 15 Jan: 7.30pm

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at St John’s Kirk

James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook

The Aurea Quartet won the St Martin-in-theFields chamber music prize of 2014 leading to concert engagements across Britain. Schumann’s beautiful A major Quartet is the perfect finish to a programme which opens with one of Haydn’s mature quartets and also includes quirky miniatures by Britten and unashamed romanticism from Mendelssohn.

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Perth Chamber Music Society

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Perth Chamber Music: The Schubert Ensemble Perth Concert Series: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Perth Piano Sundays: Denis Kozhukhin Lunchtime Concert: Susan Tomes plays Beethoven Nicola Benedetti in Recital Nicola Benedetti: Great Cello Sonatas Nicola Benedetti: Brahms Piano Quartet Benedetti Session

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Perth Concert Series: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Perth Piano Sundays: Piers Lane Perth Chamber Music: The Brodsky Quartet Lunchtime Concert: Schubert's Winterreise Lunchtime Concert: Dunedin Consort performs Bach Perth Chamber Music: Passacaglia Baroque Ensemble

Scottish Chamber Orchestra: New Year in Vienna Perth Chamber Music: James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook Lunchtime Concert: Members of the SCO Mozart - Così fan tutte Perth Piano Sundays: Steven Osborne

Lunchtime Concert: Soloists of Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Perth Concert Series: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Quatuor Mosaïques play Mozart Quatuor Mosaïques play Mozart Quatuor Mosaïques play Mozart Perth Chamber Music: Trio Isimisz Lunchtime Concert: Scottish Ensemble Perth Piano Sundays: Alasdair Beatson Perth Concert Series: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Lunchtime Concert: Hebrides Ensemble Perth Chamber Music: Aurea String Quartet Perth Piano Sundays: Tom Poster Perth Concert Series: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Lunchtime Concert: Jonathan Manson plays Bach Perth Piano Sundays: Paul Lewis Perth Concert Series: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Lunchtime Concert: Alisdair Hogarth in recital

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