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2009 Season
25 September 2009
James Turnbull (oboe & cor anglais), Victoria Davies (harp)
C.P.E. Bach: Sonata in G minor, Wq135
Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo Oboe
Pasculli: Homage to Bellini for Cor Anglais and Harp
Michael Berkeley: Second Still Life
Tournier: Images Suite No.4 for solo Harp
Piazzolla: History of the Tango
16 October 2009
The Atrium Sting Quartet
Supported by the Hon HMT Gibson’s Charity Trust
Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op.77 No.2
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No.3 in Eb minor, Op.30
Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’
13 November 2009
Helen Reid - piano
This concert was supported by the Making Music Concert Promoters’ Network Scheme.
Janacek: In the Mists
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the Keyboard
Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.26 (Viennese Carnival)
Beethoven: Sonata in A flat, Op.110
Debussy: Nocturne in D flat
Debussy: L’isle Joyeuse
The Stanford Quartet
This concert was supported by the Making Music Concert Promoters’ Network Scheme.
Mozart: String Quartet in D, K.575
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.6 in G, Op.101
Borodin: String Quartet No.2 in D
15 January 2010
The Denner Ensemble
This concert was supported by the Making Music Concert Promoters’ Network Scheme.
Vivaldi: Trio Sonata for recorder, oboe & continuo in G minor RV103
Rameau: La Dauphine for harpsichord solo
Couperin: Septieme Gouts-reunis for oboe
Vivaldi: Concerto for recorder, bassoon & continuo in A minor RV86
Boismortier: Trio Sonata for oboe, bassoon & continuo in A minor op.37/5
Hotteterre: Suite in Bb for recorder and continuo
Boismortier: Bassoon Sonata in A minor
Telemann: Trio-Sonata in A minor for recorder, oboe & continuo
12 February 2010
ISOLANI STRING QUARTET WITH TOM VERITY (CLARINET)
These artists appeared by kind permission of the Royal Northern College of Music
Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B flat
Walton: String Quartet in A minor
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581
5 March 2010
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Florence Cooke (violin), Daniel Tong (piano)
Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust
Lennox Berkeley: Horn Trio, Op.44
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.2 in A, Op.12 No.2
Jeremy Thurlow: Horn Trio
Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat, Op.40
16 April 2010
The Aquinas Piano Trio
Supported by the Hon HMT Gibson’s Charity Trust
Beethoven: Piano Trio in D, Op.70 No.1 ‘Ghost’
Schumann: Piano Trio No.2 in F, Op.80
Saint-Saens: Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op.92
Derby Chamber Music ended its current season on not just one high, but two (Multi-Faith Centre, Derby University, 16 April 2010). An appeal, launched six weeks before, to raise the money for DCM to buy the piano it was previously hiring, in order to secure the society’s long-term viability, has overshot its target by some distance.
So it was a fitting end to the season to have the Aquinas Piano Trio playing to what, according to some estimates, was DCM’s largest audience to date. OK, some of that number can be accounted for by the fact that cellist Katherine Jenkinson is a local girl, but it was still a very impressive turn-out.
Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ Trio got off to a bold, punchy start but, rightly, it was the quiet intensity the players brought to the second movement that made everyone sit up and take notice.
The buoyant energy of the playing in the outer movements spilled over into Schumann’s Second Trio. But the quieter recesses, particularly of the two middle movements, were also explored, with firm control of the music’s mood-swings, and with the darkening tone towards the end of the third particularly well handled.
In the rarely-heard Trio No 2 by Saint-Saëns the playing had both rich sonority and limpid clarity. The players found elegance and grace in the three inner movements, and while they perhaps allowed themselves to get a little too serious in the second of these, there was a lovely smiling poise in the following waltz. Textures in the fugue at the centre of the finale were clear, though the pianist occasionally overwhelmed his colleagues elsewhere. In all, an exhilarating end to one of DCM's most successful seasons yet.
© Mike Wheeler. No part of these notes may be reproduced in any form without the express permission of the author.
Created on 10/07/2009 09:38 AM by admin
Updated on 04/30/2010 10:50 AM by admin
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