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 […]
Simon & Raphael Wallfisch with Edward Rushton
Brahms | Lieder und Gesänge Op.32 (1864) Brahms | Sonata in F minor Op.120/1 (1894) Schumann | Three Romances Op.94 (1849) Schumann | Dichterliebe Op.48 (1840) Simon Wallfisch (baritone) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Edward Rushton (piano) No strangers to the London stage, Simon and Raphael Wallfisch are joined by pianist Edward Rushton in a programme of […]
Noûs Quartet
Webern | Langsamer Satz (1905) Beethoven | Quartet in D Op.18/3 (1798-1800) Beethoven | Quartet in B flat Op.130 (1826) Tiziano Baviera (violin) Alberto Franchin (violin) Sara Dambruoso (viola) Tommaso Tesini (cello) Formed in 2011, the Noûs Quartet have become much-loved regulars at Conway Hall. Their recent CD of Italian music for quartet on Warner […]
Pre-concert recital by Paolo Rinaldi (piano)
Bach | Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV904 (1725) Brahms | Scherzo in E flat minor Op.4 (1851) Dallapiccola | Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (1952) Prokofiev | Etude C minor Op.2/4 (1909) Italian pianist Paolo Rinaldi is a Steinway Artist and a Fellow at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. He […]
The Oriole Ensemble
Hindemith | Clarinet Quartet (1938) Messiaen | Quartet for the End of Time (1941) Hiro Takenouchi (piano) William Stafford (clarinet) Sijie Chen (violin) Christian Elliott (cello) A concert curated by Conway Hall Sunday Concerts patron Hiro Takenouchi, presenting Messiaen’s iconic Quatuor pour la fin du temps, first performed in 1941 in a prisoner-of-war camp in […]
Maria Canyigueral & Lana Trotovšek
Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30/3 Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 5 in F ‘Spring’ Op. 24 Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 9 in A ‘Kreutzer’ Op. 47 Lana Trotovšek (violin) Maria Canyigueral (piano) Many will remember Maria Canyigueral from her spectacular Avant-Guarding Mompou recital at Conway Hall in 2018. She […]
Pre-concert Talk | Breaking New Ground: Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas
British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill returns to Conway Hall to give a free pre-concert talk about the evening’s programme. Breaking new ground: Beethoven’s violin sonatas developed from his early works, firmly based on 18th century models to something more developed, representing a real break with the past and culminating in the Kreutzer sonata, the largest […]