*POSTPONED* Ruisi Quartet
** This event has been postponed due to the venue’s temporary closure in light of the Government’s instructions about Covid-19 ** Ticketholders will be notified about refunds via email and informed in due course about a new date once the performance is rescheduled. — Britten | Three Divertimenti (1933) Mendelssohn | Quartet in A minor […]
*Postponed* Phacelia Ensemble
** This event has been postponed due to the venue’s temporary closure in light of the Government’s instructions about Covid-19 ** Ticketholders will be notified about refunds via email and informed in due course about a new date once the performance is rescheduled. Stravinsky | Three Pieces for Quartet (1914, rev. 1918) Mozart arr. […]
Solem Quartet
Brahms | Quartet in A minor Op.51/2 (1865) Camden Reeves | Quartet No. 5 ‘Blue Windows’ (world premiere) (2019) Beethoven | Quartet in E flat Op.127 (1823-24) Amy Tress (violin) William Newell (violin) Stephen Upshaw (guest viola) Stephanie Tress (cello) Winners of the 2014 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Competition, the Solem Quartet has recently performed […]
Simon Callaghan & Friends – Beethoven Trios: Part 1
Beethoven | Trio in C minor Op.1/3 (1794-95) Beethoven | Variations in E flat Op.44 (1792) Beethoven | Trio in D ‘Ghost’ Op.70/1 (1808) Ben Gilmore (violin) Ashok Klouda (cello) Simon Callaghan (piano) Director of Music Simon Callaghan is joined by Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (co-concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra) and Ashok Klouda (Director of the […]
Pre-concert Recital: Musicians from Royal College of Music
Witness the future generation of music stars as leading ensembles from internationally-renowned Royal College of Music take to the Conway Hall stage. Flora Fontanelli (violin) Danilo Mascetti (piano) Lili Boulanger | Deux Morceaux for violin & piano Ravel | Sonata for violin & piano no 1 in A minor (Posthumous) Lili Boulanger | D’un matin de printemps […]
Tippett Quartet / Héloïse Werner
Ravel | Quartet in F (1902-03) Freya Waley-Cohen | Spell Book (Volume 2) for soprano & string quartet – words by Rebecca Tamás (world premiere) (2020) Poulenc arr. Bozidar Vukotic | La Courte Paille FP178 (1960) Debussy | Quartet in G minor Op.10 (1893) John Mills (violin) Jeremy Isaac (violin) Lydia Lowndes-Northcott (viola) Bozidar Vukotic (cello) […]
Lydia Shelley & Nicolas Stavy
Beethoven | Sonata No.2 in G minor Op.5 (1796) Brahms | Sonata No.1 in E minor Op.38 (1862-65) Shostakovich | Sonata Op.40 (1934) Lydia Shelley (cello) Nicolas Stavy (piano) France-based Lydia Shelly and Nicolas Stavy offer a traversal of the cello sonata’s development, from Beethoven’s pioneering G minor sonata through to Shostakovich’s only essay in […]
Pre-concert Talk | The History of the Cello Sonata
British composer, journalist and lecturer Robert Hugill returns to Conway Hall for a free pre-concert talk exploring the history of the cello sonata. Growing out of the continuo sonata, the history of the cello sonata is one of the liberation of the cello. In early sonatas it doubled the keyboard, and we look at how […]
Gould Piano Trio
Mozart | Trio in E K542 (1788) Korngold | Trio in D Op.1 (1910) Brahms | Trio No. 2 in C Op.87 (1880-82) Lucy Gould (violin) Richard Lester (cello) Benjamin Frith (piano) The Gould Piano Trio, directly compared to the great Beaux Arts Trio for their “musical fire” and “dedication to the genre” in The […]