2018 -19 PROGRAMME Chamber Music at its Best - Cheltenham Music Society
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2018 -19 PROGRAMME
Chamber Music at its Best
Concerts at Pittville Pump Room and
Prince Michael Hall, Dean Close School
Cheltenham Music Society
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Ellipsis Ensemble Tuesday 16 October 2018
(flute, oboe and piano) at 7.30 pm
James Gilchrist At Pittville Pump Room
(tenor) James Gilchrist is one of the UK’s
leading tenors and has performed in
Quantz major concert halls throughout the
Trio Sonata in C minor QV 2 world. He is recognised as ‘the
finest Evangelist of his generation’.
Fauré
Sicilienne op.78 Ellipsis performed their inaugural
Roxanna Panufnik concert in 2009 as part of the St
The Generation of Love John’s May Festival in Notting Hill
and have relished making music
Telemann together ever since. Their concert
Fantasia no.6 in D minor TWV 40 programmes are original and varied
including combinations of solos,
Plus songs by Quilter, Dubery, duos and trios for oboe, flute, and
Warlock, Dring and Gershwin piano.
Tickets
‘fresh and invigorating … a committed and £23 & £18
persuasive performance from Ellipsis’ Under 26
Seen and Heard International £5
Thursday 15 November 2018 Pražák Quartet
at 7.30 pm
At Pittville Pump Room Smetana
String Quartet no.2
‘With their new leader, the Pražáks in D minor
provided a reminder that they are
Jiří Gemrot
one of the world's leading
quartets.’ La Baule 2017 String Quartet no.2
Dvořák
String Quartet in C major op.61
We welcome again the accomplished Pražák Quartet with
their new leader, Royal College of Music graduate, Jana
Vonášková. They bring an appealing all-Czech programme
Tickets with quartets by Smetana and Dvořák framing an exciting
£25 & £20
and virtuoso work by the contemporary Czech composer,
Under 26
£5 Jiří Gemrot (b.1957). This was premiered by the Pražáks
in March 2015.
The Marian Consort Tuesday 4 December 2018
at 7.30 pm
A Very English Christmas?
A selection of songs on At Pittville Pump Room
Christmas themes by
‘fluid, vivid and, crucially, daring’
Orlandus Lassus
The Guardian
Thomas Tallis
‘performances that glow with
Alfonso Ferrabosco golden purity and soul’
Christopher Tye The Scotsman
John Sheppard ‘exquisite…the ensemble sings
with eloquence and expressive
William Byrd finesse’
Nicholas Ludford S u n d ay T i m e s
Details will be on the CMS website
Taking its name from the
Blessed Virgin Mary, a focus
of religious devotion in the
sacred music of all ages,The
Marian Consort is a young,
dynamic and internationally-
renowned early music vocal
ensemble, recognised for its
freshness of approach and
innovative presentation of a
broad range of repertoire.
Tickets
£25 & £20
Under 26
©Julie Kim
£5
Thursday 17 January 2019 Adrian Brendel (cello)
at 7.30 pm Alasdair Beatson
At Pittville Pump Room (piano)
Alasdair Beatson’s highlights of Fauré
2017 included concerts in
London’s Wigmore Hall and Kings Élégie in C minor op.24
Place, Zurich’s Tonhalle, and Bach
collaborations with Adrian Gamba Sonata in G
Brendel, the Doric String Quartet,
BWV 1027
Meta4 and the Nash Ensemble
among many. Widor
Sonata in A op.80
Bach arr. Moscheles
3 Preludes from the Well-
Tempered Clavier
Saint-Saëns
Sonata in C minor op.32
©Joanne Green
Adrian Brendel is one of the most
versatile and original cellists of his
generation. His discovery of
contemporary music through the
works of Kurtág, Kagel and Ligeti
opened a new and vital avenue Tickets
that he continues to explore with £20 & £15
huge enthusiasm alongside his
©Joanne Green Under 26
passion for jazz and world music. £5
Louis Schwizgebel Wednesday 13 February 2019
at 7.30 pm
(piano)
At Pittville Pump Room
Schubert
‘Swiss-Chinese pianist, Louis
Allegretto in C minor D.915 Schwizgebel, has won major prizes
at a number of international piano
Schubert competitions including the
4 Impromptus D.935 Geneva and Leeds
competitions. He clearly has a
Chopin prodigious technique as can be
24 Preludes op.28 seen from his recent recording of
Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit’. Seen
and Heard
Tickets
£23 & £18
Under 26
£5
Wednesday 20 March 2019 Dante Quartet
at 7.30 pm
Haydn
At Pittville Pump Room
String Quartet in G
op.33 no.5
‘The unflinching integrity of
their interpretation and the Howells
excitement of their playing String Quartet no.3
were consistently superb.’ ‘In Gloucestershire’
The Guardian
Beethoven
String Quartet in E minor
Op.59 no.2
The Dante Quartet, one of the UK’s finest ensembles, is
known for its imaginative programming and impassioned
performances. The Dante Quartet has been honoured
with the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber
Music and has also received international awards for its
Tickets recordings. The wide age-range of the Dante Quartet’s
£23 & £18 members helps to create a harmonious and exciting blend,
Under 26
marrying youthful enthusiasm with richness of experience
£5
and consummate technical skill.
Castalian Quartet Wednesday 24 April 2019
at 7.30 pm
Haydn
String Quartet in D minor At Pittville Pump Room
op.76 no.2 ‘Fifths’
‘They seize motives with the core
Britten
of their sound and press them into
String Quartet No.2 in C op.36 a service of thematic contiguity
Schubert that is enviable, like an orator who
String Quartet no.13 in A minor knows how to convince with both
D.804 ‘Rosamunde’ passion and persuasion’.
Calgary Herald
The Castalian Quartet is without doubt one of the most
exciting new voices on the international chamber music
scene. In 2015 they won 1st Prize and three special awards
at the Lyon International Competition. In 2016, as the only
Tickets European ensemble to progress to the live rounds, they
£20 & £15 won 3rd Prize at the Banff International String Quartet
Under 26 Competition, and were selected as YCAT artists. In 2018
£5
they received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award.Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts
At Prince Michael Hall, Dean Close School, Cheltenham GL51 6EP
Acclaimed guitarists Andrey Sunday 28 Oct 2018 at 3pm
Lebedev and Jack Hancher Andrey Lebedev (guitar)
perform solos and duos from
England, Spain and Australia. Jack Hancher (guitar)
Australian classical guitarist Works by
Andrey Lebedev is a laureate of Isaac Albéniz
top international competitions Malcolm Arnold
including the 2017 ARD Music
Competition and the 2017 Guitar Benjamin Britten
Foundation of America Bill Lovelady
Competition. Jack Hancher
Heitor Villa-Lobos
studied at the Royal College of
Music and received the RCM Astor Piazzolla
guitar prize in 2014. Both have Phillip Houghton
performed across the UK at
venues including King’s Place and
Ralph Towner
Wigmore Hall.
Sunday 17 Feb 2019 at 3pm
Tickets Pixels Ensemble
£10
Under 26 Hildegard of Bingen
free O viridissima virga (voice)
O virga ac diadema (voice)
Pixels Ensemble is a collective of George Crumb
established chamber music players Vox Balaenae - Voice of the Whale
with a shared passion for (flute, cello and piano)
performing the finest repertoire, Luciano Berio
from the classical period to the Sequenza III (voice)
present day. Vastly experienced Hafliði Hallgrímsson
and versatile, the group appears in
a wide range of combinations and Verse I (flute and cello)
line-ups, lending itself to innovative Maurice Ravel
programming and enabling huge Chansons Madécasses (voice, flute,
variety within individual concerts. cello and piano)How to book
Chamber Music Concerts at the Pump Room
Series tickets
To purchase seats for the whole series, please apply to the Membership
Secretary using the application form attached. This gives a substantial discount
compared with ticket prices charged for individual concerts. Purchasers
become members of the Society and in place of tickets we issue membership
cards showing the seat number for the whole series. Please remember to bring
membership cards for admission to the concerts.
For priority booking, please add a donation of at least £10 per person. The
Society relies on members’ donations to maintain the quality of its programmes.
The priority booking period runs until 31 July 2018 and the non-priority
booking period continues to 31 August, when sales of series tickets close. Seat
allocation starts on 1 June but non-priority bookings will not be handled until
the end of the priority booking period.
Individual series concert tickets
Tickets for individual concerts will be available from 1 June 2018 at the Town
Hall Box Office (tel: 01242 227979 or 0844 576 2210) but the choice of seats
will be limited until the allocation of series tickets is complete. Tickets are also
available at the Pump Room on the day of the concert.
Those buying tickets for four or more series concerts at the same time get a
10% discount. Members who have purchased a series ticket can purchase up to
two additional single tickets for each Pump Room concert at a discount of 50%.
Under 26 series tickets
Tickets for those under 26 are £5 for individual concerts, and £20 or £15,
depending on seating area, for the whole series.
Contemporary Concerts at Prince Michael Hall
Members subscribing for the Chamber Music series at the Pump Room can buy
tickets for both concerts for a total of £15 using the application form.
Individual tickets cost £10 and can be purchased at the door. Tickets for those
under 26 are free.Application Form
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Signed………………………………. Date……………..Tickets Cheltenham Music Society
promotes a winter season of
Members’ tickets for the whole varied chamber music with an
concert series are available via the emphasis on string quartets and
membership secretary Mr M.
also a contemporary music series.
O’Connell, 49 Painswick Rd,
Cheltenham GL50 2EP
(Tel 01242 234791).
Tickets for individual Pump Room The Society is a registered charity
concerts are available through the (No 279209) and relies
Cheltenham Town Hall box office, on donations to maintain a high
Imperial Square, Tel 01242 227979, or standard of programme and
0844 576 2210, or at the door. support young musicians.
Tickets for individual Contemporary
Concerts are available at the door.
The artists include some of the
finest performers in the world as
Venues well as outstanding young
musicians.
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