Concerts in 2004/05
Click here for details of the 2003/04 season's concerts.
Sunday 3 October 2004 at 12.00pm & 3.00pm
Fine Arts Brass
12.00 pm - Children's Concert
3.00 pm - Light Music Concert to include:
- Derek Smith - Tomkins Tunes (premiere)
- Guy Woolfenden - Full Fathom Five
- Alun Hoddinott - Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes
- An A-Z of Jazz from its origins to the present
Fine Arts Brass is acclaimed worldwide. Their innovative and exciting approach to brass-playing will be heard in a varied programme which includes jazz from May Aufderheide and Ragtime to Frank Zappa via Irving Berlin and Harry James.
Don't miss their children's concert earlier in the day.
Tuesday 23 November 2004 at 7.30pm
The Rosamunde Trio (Piano Trio)
- Schubert - Notturno in E flat D. 897
- Dvorak - Trio in E minor B. 166 ("dumky")
- Beethoven - Trio in B flat Op 97 ("Archduke")
The Rosamunde Trio comprises three distinguished international soloists, Martino Tirimo (piano), Ben Seyevich (violin) and Daniel Veis ('cello), who were received rapturously on their UK tour in 2003. They are renowned for their performances of the 19th Century Romantic repertoire.
Sunday 12 December 2004 at 3.00pm
Arborea Musica
- J. S. Bach - Aria from Cantata 1
- J. S. Bach - Benedictus (from B minor Mass)
- J. S. Bach - Trio Sonata in F (recorder)
- Handel - Harmonious Blacksmith Variations
- Handel - Arias
- Telemann - Cantatas for Advent II & IV
Arborea Musica play on baroque instruments and specialise in the 18th Century trio sonata repertoire and cantatas for solo voice, woodwind and continuo.
Gerry McDonald (flute, oboe, recorder), Phillipa Hyde (soprano) and Helen Rogers (harpsichord) perform throughout the UK and overseas.
Tuesday 18 January 2005 at 7.30pm
El Ultimo Tango (from the CBSO)
Crossover concert to include:
- Astor Piazzolla and others
- Oblivion, Adios Nonino, Buenos Aires, Hora Cero and other tangos
El Ultimo Tango was formed in 2002 by the principal cello of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Vassallo, with other members of the CBSO. They have been a sensation withtheir exciting interpretations of the music of Astor Piazzolla.
Tuesday 8 February 2005 at 7.30pm
Mark Bebbington - piano
- Franck - Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
- Debussy - Preludes:
- La cathedrale engloutie
- La serenade interrompue
- Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
- La fille aux cheveux de lin
- General Lavine-eccentric
- Feux d'artifice
- Kenneth Leighton - Sonatina No 2
- Ivor Gurney - Sehnsucht, The Sea, Prelude no. 4 in D flat major
- Howard Ferguson - Sonata in F Minor, Op. 8
Mark Bebbington has established an international career as one of the leading pianists of his generation. His specialisms are French and English music. He is enthusiastic about the music of our time and of composers he feels have been unjustly neglected. Click here for more about him.
Sunday 13 March 2005 at 3.00pm
The Quince Quartet
- Haydn - Quartet in F Minor Op. 20 no. 5
- Mendelssohn - Quartet in E minor Op. 44 no. 2
- Edward Nesbit - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tomkins. Outright winner of the Young Composer Awards sponsored by Worcester Concert Club during 2004 with financial support from Arts Council West Midlands
- Mozart - Quartet in E Flat Major K 428
There was an inevitability about the formation of the Quince Quartet when each of us discovered three other passionate musicians who shared our feelings. We were ready to commit to the chamber music ideal!
And what could be more ideal than the string quartet? Inspired by the versatility of the medium, composers have created an enormous variety of wonderful music, from the most extrovert to the sublimelyintimate.
It is a real challenge for four strong musical personalities to work together in a way that, far from compromising expressivity in an attempt to Ofit in to the group, draws positive influence from each individual to produce a hugely powerful collective voice. We must meet that challenge; the richness of the string quartet repertoire demands it!
Breaking down barriers between performer and audience is very important to us, and we love bringing the listener, whether young or more experienced, closer to us and to the music through educationalworkshops, coaching, and informal lecture recitals.
We really hope that our passion for playing string quartets comes across with an openness of communication which, in some way, reaches everyone.
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