CELEBRATING YRS AT KINGS PLACE

March 2024

Fri 1 Mar | Hall One | 7.30pm

Xuefei Yang & Johannes Moser

Master Series

Dowland Selection of Songs

JS Bach Prelude from Suite No. 2, BWV 1008

SL Weiss Fantasie in D minor JS Bach Sarabande from Suite No. 2, BWV 1008

SL Weiss Passacaille in D major Schubert ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata, D821

Xu (arr. Yang) Sword Dance

Sheng Three Songs for Cello & Pipa

Ellen Reid Somewhere there is Something Else

Falla Selection from Siete canciones populares españolas

Xuefei Yang guitar

Johannes Moser cello

Celebrated guitarist Xuefei Yang joins cellist JohannesMoser – ‘one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists’ (Gramophone) – for an intricate sequence of dance- and song-based gems. Natural instrumental partners, exchanging singing lines and delicate accompanying figures, they journey through Renaissance and

Baroque works towards Schubert’s scintillating ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata, originally written for a guitar-like fretted cello. They come together for Falla’s Popular Songs by turns smouldering and soulful.

£19.50-£49.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Mon 11 Mar | Hall One 7.30pm Jonathan Ferrucci

Kirckman Society Presents JS Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Join Bach enthusiast Jonathan Ferrucci for the timeless journey of the Goldberg Variations, as he presents them on the Kings Place stage after his recent recording. A round-trip Odyssey, this music feels personal and universal at the same time. The Goldberg Variations are a story of joy, struggle and human inquiry that will lead us back home. This is a Kirckman Society promotion.

£15-25 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Fri 15 Mar | Hall One | 7.30pm

ORA Singers 1603 The Union

Weelkes O Lord, grant the King a long life

Peebles Psalm 19 (Wode Psalter)

‘The heavens and the filaments’

Judith Weir Magnificat

Ramsey When David heard

Sally Beamish Gaudent in caelis

Byrd O God, the proud are risen against me

Gibbons What is our life?

Bob Chilcott Even such is time

Byrd Sing joyfully

Ramsey Almighty God, which has knit together

Thea Musgrave Rorate coeli

Ramsey Nunc dimittis

Peebles Psalm 150 (Wode Psalter)

‘Yield Unto God the mighty Lord’ Tomkins O Lord, grant the King a long life

ORA Singers

The elite ORA Singers make their Kings Place debut with a programme celebrating the union between Scotland and England in 1603. The concert begins with Thomas Weelkes’s ‘Grant the King a Long Life’, which is believed to have been performed at James I’s coronation, and ends with Tomkins’ setting of the same text. Modern works by Sally Beamish, Bob Chilcott, Thea Musgrove and Judith Weir are alternated with music by Byrd, Gibbons and Ramsey, and psalms from the Wode Psalter, harmonised by 16th-century Scottish composer David Peebles. On sale soon

Sun 17 Mar | Hall One | 11.30am

To Infinity and Beyond Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Bach the Universe & Everything

JS Bach Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens (Bring to the Lord the honour due His name), BWV 148

Stuart Clark speaker

Another intergalactic season of Bach, the Universe and Everything comes to a conclusion. Bach’s glorious and virtuosic Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens BWV 148, is a call for kindness and generosity.

Astronomer, writer and stargazer

Stuart Clark will survey the future of our relationship with space and where it might take us.

£19.50 with Under 30s and Concession

Tickets

Sun 17 Mar Hall One | 6pm Amici della Musica

London Chamber Music Society Programme to include Dvořák’s Piano Quartet and music by Mahler and Smetana

Piers Lane piano

Philippe Graffin violin

Elizabeth Wallfisch viola Raphael Wallfisch cello

£14.50-£29.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Wed 20 Mar | Hall One | 6.45pm

Piatti Quartet

Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2

Rush Hour Lates

Ina Boyle Quartet in E minor

Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81

Michael Trainor violin

Emily Holland violin

Miguel Sobrinho viola

Jessie Ann Richardson cello

Emmanuel Despax pianist

Ina Boyle was one of Ireland’s most important composers in the first half of the 20th century. The Piattis released the world premiere recording of her sole string quartet, of 1934, in 2023. This was described by Gramophone as ‘not to be missed’. The melancholic mood of Boyle’s Quartet in E minor will be dispelled by one of the most famous chamber works ever written, Dvořák’s barnstorming Piano Quintet in A major of 1887.

£19.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Fri 22 Mar | Hall One | 7.30pm

Brecon Baroque

From Darkness into Light

Rachel Podger: Artist in Focus 23/24 | Bach Weekend

JS Bach Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150

JM Bach Ach, wie sehnlich

Buxtehude Ciaccona in E minor, BuxWV 160

Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin & Klage Lied, BuxWV 76

JS Bach Lobet den Herrn BWV 230

JM Bach Es ist ein großer Gewinn

JC Bach ‘Mein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein’ - Chaconne from Meine Freundin, du bist schön

JS Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden

BWV 4

Rachel Podger violin

Zoe Brookshaw soprano

Ciara Hendrick mezzo-soprano

Thomas Herford tenor

Jon Stainsby baritone Brecon Baroque

Beginning with JS Bach’s Nach dir, verlanget mich (Unto thee, Lord, do I lift up my soul) and culminating in the joyous Easter Cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden (Christ lay in death’s bonds), this beautiful programme explores texts of human frailty and lament alongside those longing for hope to come – Alleluia! The concert also includes works by Johann Michael and Johann Christian Bach, and by JS Bach’s admired contemporary Buxtehude – what better way to contemplate new life and new beginnings than through the music of JS Bach, his family and his influences?

£19.50-£49.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

Sat 23 Mar | Hall One | 7.30pm Bach:

The Violin Concertos

Bach Weekend

JS Bach Sinfonia in C minor for oboe, violin and strings, BWV 21 Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043

Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV 1060R

The Feinstein Ensemble

Catherine Manson solo violin

Miki Takahashi solo violin Geoffrey Coates solo oboe

Catherine Manson’s serenely spacious readings of Bach’s great violin concerti have garnered a devoted following in recent times. She is accompanied here by the Feinstein Ensemble, and partnered by Miki Takahashi and Geoffrey Coates in the double concertos. The programme showcases both Manson’s rare talent and some of Bach’s most glorious instrumental works.

£19.50-£49.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

More Bach Weekend events to be announced soon. Check the website for further details.

April 2024

Mon 8 Apr | Hall One | 7.30pm

Elmore String Quartet

Kirckman Society Presents

Leo Geyer Unfurling (Elmore Quartet commission; world premiere)

Ravel String Quartet in F major Britten String Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op. 94

The Elmore Quartet are an awardwinning young quartet based in Manchester and London. Previous winners of the Tunnell Trust Awards, they are Kirckman Concert Society Artists for 2023/2024. They present a programme of pieces with a personal meaning to the group members, including Ravel’s only quartet, Britten’s Third and a new commission by young composer Leo Geyer. This is a Kirckman Society promotion.

£15-£25 with Under 30s and Concessions

Tickets

Sat 27 Apr | Hall One | 7.30pm

Aurora Orchestra

with Emily Smith & Sam Amidon Outlanders

Folk ballad arrangements from Scotland and North America, including The Two Sisters The Swan Swims and The Only Tune

James MacMillan Untold

Anna Meredith Blackfriars

Steve Reich New York Counterpoint

Caroline Shaw Limestone & Felt

Paul Simon, arr. Nico Muhly Hearts and Bones

Sam Amidon vocalist

Emily Smith vocalist

Aurora journeys in the footsteps of Scottish emigrants, charting a course from Scottish folk ballads

June 2024

Wed 5 Jun | Hall One | 8pm

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Master Series

Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op. 9 No. 11

Beethoven String Quartet in C major, Op. 59, No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ to contemporary American music in the company of folk singers from opposite sides of the Atlantic, Sam Amidon and Emily Smith. We follow the evolution of a folk song from its Scottish roots via Scandinavia to 21st-century America, with contrasting arrangements of the macabre Two Sisters murder ballad, including Nico Muhly’s contemporary setting, The Only Tune Interwoven through this journey is a sparkling selection of chamber music by Scottish and American composers spanning three centuries, including works by Anna Meredith, James MacMillan, Caroline Shaw and Steve Reich.

£19.50-£69.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

A welcome return by the peerless Chiaroscuro Quartet, with two of Beethoven’s forever-radical ‘Razumovsky’ Quartets, and a slice of early Haydn. Led by Alina Ibragimova, the Chiaroscuro Quartet have become synonymous with the authentic performance of Classical London chamber music and are acclaimed the world over. Their latest release was Haydn’s Op. 33 Nos. 1-3 (BIS). In this concert, they present two of Beethoven’s radical middle-period quartets alongside Haydn’s impish Op. 9 No. 11.

£19.50-£49.50 with Under 30s and Concessions Tickets

The events listed within this brochure are confirmed at the time of going to press.

Sun 24 Mar | Hall One 6pm

Sun 7 Apr | Hall One | 6pm

Sun 14 Apr Hall One 6pm

Future dates coming up from the London Chamber Music Society, details still to be confirmed.

Please check the website for the latest programme: kingsplace.co.uk