Full 2022/2023 Season

Here’s an overview of the full season during 2022/2023.

Date: Sunday 16th October 2022 | 3pm
Name: David Owen Norris

Details:

For our opening concert of the 2022-23 season, David Owen Norris makes a welcome return with a concert of English piano music including the World Premiere of his Piano Sonata.

David Owen Norris has been a familiar face on music television since 1990. In recent years his Chord of the Week has helped make BBC2’s PromsExtra one of the most watched classical music programmes in the world. On Radio 3 his contributions to Building a Library are keenly relished.

David’s rise as a composer is comparatively recent. Audiences have been discovering his music through a series of major works:

• The Oratorio Prayerbook
• The Piano Concerto in C

both recorded commercially, and the Symphony; as well as smaller works. David also plays early pianos. His discovery that the World’s First Piano Concertos were written around 1770 in London for the tiny square piano led to a complete reconsideration of that instrument, with an epoch-making recording, and concerto tours of Britain, Europe and America. He is a Professor of Musical Performance at the University of Southampton, and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music and at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Date: Sunday 27th November 2022 | 3pm
Name: Gabriella Jones (Harp)

Details:

Debussy – Images Oubliées Lent Doux et Melancolique (arr. G Jones)
Marcel Tournier – Image Suite no. 4
Caroline Lizotte – Suite Galactique
Marcel Grandjany – Rhapsodie pour la harpe
Rachmaninov – Prelude in D major op. 23 no. 4 (arr. G Jones)
Judith Weir – Fragile
Britten – Suite for Harp
Henriette Renie – Deuxième Ballade

“One of the most exciting young musicians to emerge on the concert scene in recent years.”
The Guardian

Date: Sunday 5th February 2023 | 3pm
Name: Echéa String Quartet

Details:

Haydn – Quartet op. 74 no. 1 in C major
Bartok – Quartet no. 6
Beethoven – Quartet op. 59 no.1 “Rasumovsky”

Bartok’s most accessible quartet contrasts with two standard-bearers from the classical era.
Built as the Bartok 6th quartet is out of the hauntingly desolate, beautiful opening viola solo, which meets with cynical violence and undisguised parody of the Nazi march across Europe at the end of the 1930s (which caused Bartok to emigrate to the United States), one might be tempted to sense parallels with current European events, eight decades later.

The multi-award-winning Echéa Quartet was formed in 2017 at the Royal Academy of Music.

Date: Sunday 12th March 2023 | 3pm
Name: Greenwich Piano Trio

Details:

Haydn – Piano Trio no. 45 in E flat major
Brahms – Piano Trio no. 3 in C minor op. 101
Smetana – Piano Trio in G minor

The Greenwich Piano Trio was formed in 2006. Awards include the Solti Foundation and first prize at the Beethoven Society of Europe Chamber Music Competition.

Date: Sunday 16th April 2023 | 3pm
Name: Ensemble Mirage (Clarinet, Violin, Piano)

Details:

Stravinsky – Suite L’Histoire du soldat
Shostakovich – 5 pieces
Milhaud – Suite op. 157b
Bartok – Contrasts

Ensemble Mirage is a dynamic flexi-ensemble based in London, enabling the exploration and
programming of the whole range of Clarinet-String-Piano chamber music.

Date: Sunday 7th May 2023 | 3pm
Name: Raphael Wallfisch (cello) & Martin Roscoe (piano)

Details:

An all-Beethoven recital

7 variations on Bei manner, welche Liebe fuhlen (magic flute )
Cello Sonata no 4 in C major op. 102
12 variations in F, Eine Madchen Oder Weibchen (magic flute )
Cello Sonata no. 3 in A major op. 69

Following closely on their contribution to last season’s magnificent performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, we are delighted to welcome back these two master musicians, this time bringing us an all-Beethoven recital, including two of his cello sonatas. During his illustrious career, Martin Roscoe has become one of the UK’s most loved and respected pianists. With his extensive repertoire, consummate musicianship and immediate connection with audiences, he is in great demand as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist.

Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most celebrated cellists performing on the international stage. He was born in London into a family of distinguished musicians, his mother the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and his father the pianist Peter Wallfisch. He is regularly invited to play at major festivals such as the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Spoleto, Prades, Oslo and Schleswig Holstein.