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Introduction and Allegro (arr. Ben Palmer) In this trembling shadow Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (arr. Ben Palmer) Symphony for Strings world première
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SAT 30 JAN 2016 8PM Elgar Dowland Vaughan Williams Schubert Stamford Chamber Orchestra Ben Palmer conductor
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SAT 14 NOV 2015 8PM Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor ‘Unfinished’ Brahms Double Concerto in A minor for Violin and Cello Schumann Symphony No. 4 in D minor Stamford Chamber Orchestra Francesca Barritt violin Morwenna Del Mar cello Ben Palmer conductor
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The Hanover Band Saturday 10 October 2015 7.30pm
Welcome to the 2015/16 season of live classical music at Stamford Arts Centre, an exciting season of contrasting concerts spanning four centuries of music. The Hanover Band open the season with a programme which includes the ever popular works of JS Bach: the Double Violin Concerto and Brandenburg Concerto No 5, composed in the eighteenth century. The season closes with another returning orchestra: the City of London Sinfonia, with a programme featuring twenty-first century interpretations of JS Bach’s work by contemporary composers. In between we have performances in the traditional forms of string quartet and solo piano, as well as the unusual grouping of an octet of cellists. Ensemble 360 will perform a concert of piano, clarinet and horn trios having played for our younger audience, earlier in the day, Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom in the theatre. This is an extra special work created by Music in the Round’s Children’s Composer in Residence, Paul Rissman, and is based upon Giles Andreae and Korky Paul’s book.
Chilingirian Quartet Saturday 7 November 2015 7.30pm James Kirby Saturday 12 December 2015 7.30pm Cellophony Saturday 9 January 2016 7.30pm James Lisney and Sarah-Beth Briggs: Piano Duo Saturday 13 February 2016 7.30pm Wonderland Saturday 12 March 2016 7.30pm
We hope that, whatever your interest, there is something in this series for you. Ensemble 360 Saturday 9 April 2016 7.30pm Kate Douglas, Classical Season Programmer
Remember, you can benefit from a special £2 discount off each ticket when you buy for 3 or more concerts at the same time.
City of London Sinfonia Saturday 7 May 2016 7.30pm
THE HANOVER BAND
CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET
C.P.E. Bach Symphony in B minor, Wq. 182/5 Abel Flute Concerto in G, Op. 6, No. 5 J.S. Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 (The ‘Double’) J.S. Bach Harpsichord Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056 Handel Trio Sonata in B minor, Op. 2, No. 1, HWV 386b J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050
Haydn Beethoven Dvorak
Director Mahan Esfahani Soloists Rachel Brown Madeleine Easton Kelly McCusker
Harpsichord Flute Violin Violin
The Hanover Band is celebrating 35 years of period instrument performances, and is returning to Stamford for a concert of music by Handel, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and J.S. Bach’s pupil, Carl Friedrich Abel. They will be directed by Mahan Esfahani, who has just won a prize in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015 for his disc of the Würtemberg Sonatas of C.P.E. Bach on Hyperion.
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Levon Chilingirian Ronald Birks Susie Mészáros Stephen Orton
Violin Violin Viola Cello
The Chilingirian Quartet is one of the most celebrated and widelytravelled ensembles. They have a world-wide reputation for vibrant, virtuosic performances of the great quartets. They have played in all the major chamber music venues throughout the world, and have been described by The Times as “Those indispensable pillars of British musical life, the Chilingirian Quartet”. They bring to Stamford an interesting programme from three of the great composers of string quartets. Haydn invented and developed the modern string quartet, in which four instruments work independently yet contribute to a whole, which becomes infinitely greater than the sum of the parts.
The Hanover Band is one of the finest period instrument orchestras in the UK. Its members are period instrument specialists whose objective is to enable audiences to gain a better feeling for what earlier music actually sounded like when heard in “favourable circumstances”. As Mozart’s contemporary Daniel Türk wrote in 1789, “some musical effects cannot be described; they must be heard.”
In his Opus 18 set, Beethoven showed what he had learnt from Haydn and Mozart, and then took the form to a new level. Op. 18, No. 5 is the quartet most closely modelled on Mozart’s quartets.
Saturday 10 October 2015 7.30pm
Saturday 7 November 2015 7.30pm
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String Quartet in B flat, Op. 55, No. 3 String Quartet No. 5 in A, Op. 18, No. 5 String Quartet No. 13 in G, Op. 106’
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Dvorak’s G Major Quartet has been characterized as an ode of thanksgiving written soon after his return to Bohemia from the United States. The composition is in a richly romantic Czech style, but combines Slavonic dance and dumka with hints of American ethnic melodies.
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JAMES KIRBY
CELLOPHONY
Mozart Debussy Lawson Beethoven Beethoven
Sonata in F, K533/494 Images, Book 2 The Song of the Fen Orchid Sonata in F sharp, Op. 78 Sonata in A, Op. 2, No. 2
James Kirby
Piano
James Kirby attains the age of 50 this year, and is celebrating by playing recitals in his favourite places around the country. Stamford is special to him because he performed one of his first recitals here at the Arts Centre as an 18 year old. He has since played here several times both in recitals and as part of the Barbican Piano Trio. Kirby now has an international reputation and performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the UK and Europe. In addition, since studying at the Moscow Conservatoire, he returns annually to perform in the former Soviet Union, where he is an Honorary Professor at the Rachmaninov Institute. He brings to Stamford a broad ranging concert, from Mozart’s late Sonata in F major, Debussy’s second set of Images, in which he captured the sound of Javanese gamelan and an impression of darting goldfish, to a short contemporary piece by Peter Lawson. Lawson is in the process of writing pieces to celebrate each of the 48 wild orchids that grow in the UK, and wrote The Song of the Fen Orchid specifically for Kirby, who premiered it in May 2015 in Kazakhstan. Kirby will end with two masterpieces by Beethoven from his early and middle periods.
Saturday 12 December 2015 7.30pm £16 (£15) £10 under 26s
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Wagner Tristan and Isolde, Prelude to Act 1 J.S. Bach Three Preludes & a Fugue from ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ Birchall Mirrors Dvorak Silent Woods, Op.68/B.133 Villa Lobos Bachianas brasilieras No.1, W. 246 Beethoven First movement from Piano Sonata No.8, Op.13, ‘Pathetique’‘ Schubert Three Songs from Schwanengesang, D.957 Liszt La Lugubre Gondola, S.200, No.2 Wienawski Scherzo-Tarantelle, Op.6 Trad/Barralet World Folk Songs Richard Birchall Matthijs Broersma Pau Codina Reinoud Ford Ashok Klouda Bartholomew LaFollette John Myerscough Ella Rundle
Cello Cello Cello Cello Cello Cello Cello Cello
“A bold and brilliant bunch” Richard Morrison, The Times London based cello octet Cellophony have rapidly established themselves as the UK’s leading cello ensemble, carving a reputation as accomplished exponents of both the standard cello ensemble repertoire and a diverse array of specially commissioned arrangements and adaptations. This unique repertoire base and its exhilarating delivery on stage have won the group a following across the globe, with acclaimed performances on the festival scene across Europe and as far afield as South Korea. Cellophony bring to Stamford a programme of arrangements from Bach to Wagner including adaptations of vocal, instrumental and orchestral music, demonstrating the unique and rich sonorities created by eight cellos. Saturday 9 January 2016 7.30pm £16 (£15) £10 under 26s
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JAMES LISNEY AND SARAH-BETH BRIGGS: PIANO DUO Schubert Mozart Schubert Faure Dvorak Debussy Mozart
Fantasie in G minor, D. 9 Sonata in C, K. 521 Fantasie in F minor, D. 940 Dolly Suite, Op. 56 Slavonic Dance, Op. 72/2, in E minor Petite Suite, L. 65 Andante and Variations in G, K. 501
James Lisney and Sarah-Beth Briggs make a welcome return to Stamford. For this visit they combine their skills in an exciting piano duo recital. They share a particular love of the classical repertoire and bring with them a programme focusing on the great works of Mozart and Schubert widely regarded as the pinnacles of the piano duet repertoire.
WONDERLAND Ashley Wass Piano Matthew Trusler Violin Karen Burrows Narrator Wonderland is a brand new project created by Ashley Wass and Matthew Trusler to raise money for the Lenny Trusler Children’s Foundation. The foundation was set up by Matthew and Maya Koch after the death of their baby son from a rare kidney disease in April 2007, and is dedicated to providing relief from suffering and illness in very sick babies and children. 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The book contains 12 chapters and a prefatory poem, and 13 composers were asked to write short pieces, each inspired by a different section of the tale. The pieces will be interspersed by our own Karen Burrows reading a script specially written by Louis de Bernières.
The programme also includes piano duets by Faure, Debussy and Dvorak. Each of them has since been orchestrated, but we will hear them as originally composed.
Sally Beamish All in the Golden Afternoon Roxanna Panufnik Down the Rabbit-Hole Mark-Anthony Turnage The Pool of Tears Stuart MacRae A Caucus-Race and a Long Tail Poul Ruders The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill Howard Blake Advice from a Caterpillar Carl Davis Pig and Pepper Stephen Hough A Mad Tea-Party Richard Dubugnon The Queen’s Croquet Ground Ilya Gingolts The Mock Turtle’s Story Colin Matthews The Lobster Quadrille Gwilym Simcock Who Stole the Tarts? Augusta Read Thomas Alice’s Evidence
Saturday 13 February 2016 7.30pm
Saturday 12 March 2016 7.30pm
Schubert’s piano duets include dances, marches, sets of variations, overtures, fantasies, divertissements and sonatas. His first duet, published when he was 13 years old, was dedicated “To Ludwig van Beethoven, from his worshipper and admirer Franz Schubert”. The programme includes an early work, the Fantasy in G minor (D. 9), and the Fantasie in F minor (D.940) written in the last year of his life. Many musicians would say that D. 940 is the finest four-hand work ever written, but Mozart’s Sonata in C, K.521, his last piano duet, is a rival to the Schubert.
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Bridge Phantasie Piano Trio in C minor (Piano Trio No. 1, H. 79) Beethoven Trio in B flat for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 11 Schumann Adagio and Allegro in A flat for Horn and Piano, Op. 70 Brahms Horn Trio in E flat for Violin, Horn and Piano, Op. 40
Elgar Barber Finzi Various Mozart
Tim Horton Benjamin Nabarro Matthew Hunt Gemma Rosefield Naomi Atherton
Piano Violin Clarinet Cello Horn
Ensemble 360 has an enviable reputation across the UK not only for the quality and integrity of their playing, but also for their ability to communicate music to different audiences. They will be performing a family concert, Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom in the theatre at 2pm. Often lost in the shadow of his pupil, Bejamin Britten, the works of Frank Bridge deserve to be heard more often. The Phantasie Trio in C minor is a beautiful example of Bridge’s Edwardian neo-Romantic writing complete with soaring melodies and often lush harmonies. The Beethoven Trio is part of the glorious early outpouring of works that established his reputation with the cultural elite of Vienna. Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro was the first piece written by a major composer for the relatively new (in 1849) valve horn and exploits its ability to play semitones accurately. Brahm’s Horn Trio is an evocation of his parents: his father was a professional horn player and the Adagio lovingly quotes from a folksong learnt from his mother. Saturday 9 April 2016 7.30pm £16 (£15) £10 under 26s.
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Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20 Adagio for Strings in B flat minor Five Bagatelles, Op. 23a Bach Arrangements Clarinet Concerto in A, K 622
Conductor and Soloist
Michael Collins
The City of London Sinfonia was founded by Richard Hickox in 1971 and he remained its music director and artistic director until his death in November 2008. Its artistic Director is now Stephen Layton and its principal Conductor is Michael Collins. The Sinfonia has won several awards including the “Best Opera recording” Grammy for its recording of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes. It is currently the resident orchestra at Opera Holland Park. The concert begins with two serene, poetic pieces: Elgar’s Serenade for Strings and Barber’s Adagio. Finzi regarded his Bagatelles as “only trifles”, but over the years they have become his works that are played most often. They are light and charming and far from trivial. The concert ends with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto played by Michael Collins - the most distinguished clarinetist working in the UK today. The Clarinet Concerto encapsulates the combination of beauty and inventiveness found in the works that Mozart was writing just before his death.
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Saturday 7 May 2016 7.30pm
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