Concerts are at the Influence Church, Victoria Road, Richmond DL10 4AS
Times, ticketing details and programmes are necessarily provisional at present. We hope to run two concerts, with identical programmes, on the advertised evenings, at 17:00 and 19:30. Each will have a capacity of about 85 people and last about an hour, with no interval. Ticket sales to previous Members (i.e. anyone who held a Season Ticket in 2019-20) will open a month before each concert; if tickets are still available, sales to non-Members will open a week before each concert.
The Piatti Quartet
24 February
Programme likely to be selected from
Beethoven String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18, No. 5
Mark-Anthony Turnage Quartet No. 4 'Winters' Edge'
Dvořák String Quartet in F major, Op. 96
The Piatti Quartet is Nathaniel Anderson-Frank and Michael Trainor (violins), Tetsuumi Nagata (viola) and Jessie Ann Richardson (cello).
The artists last came to Richmond three years ago, when their concert was dominated by a huge performance of Beethoven's Op. 13o quartet, with the optional Grosse Fuge ending (often performed as an entire work in its own right).
Tonight's interval refreshments were to have been offered free of charge by our former Chairman, Doug Waugh. Alas, social distancing means no interval... But please keep Doug's generous thought in mind, and make sure you're here for the opening concert of our next season, when we hope to take him up on his kind offer.
Beethoven String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18, No. 5
Mark-Anthony Turnage Quartet No. 4 'Winters' Edge'
Dvořák String Quartet in F major, Op. 96
The Piatti Quartet is Nathaniel Anderson-Frank and Michael Trainor (violins), Tetsuumi Nagata (viola) and Jessie Ann Richardson (cello).
The artists last came to Richmond three years ago, when their concert was dominated by a huge performance of Beethoven's Op. 13o quartet, with the optional Grosse Fuge ending (often performed as an entire work in its own right).
Tonight's interval refreshments were to have been offered free of charge by our former Chairman, Doug Waugh. Alas, social distancing means no interval... But please keep Doug's generous thought in mind, and make sure you're here for the opening concert of our next season, when we hope to take him up on his kind offer.
The Gould Piano Trio, with Robert Plane (clarinet)
24 March
Programme likely to be selected from
Beethoven Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 11 Huw Watkins Four Fables Beethoven Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 70 No. 2 Tonight's artists are Lucy Gould (violin), Benjamin Frith (piano), and Richard Lester (cello), with their regular performing partner, the clarinettist Robert Plane. |
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La Serenissima
14 April
Tartini's Dream, by Louis-Léopold Boilly
Sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini for violin, cello and harspichord
Tonight's artists are Adrian Chandler (violin), Robin Bigwood (harpsichord), Vladimir Waltham (cello).
La Serenissima was founded in 1994 by Adrian Chandler to bring to life the music of 18th-century Venice. The ensemble has delighted audiences across the world, and now has a two-year residency at London's Wigmore Hall.
Tonight, members of La Serenissima will present a selection of violin sonatas by the Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770). Tartini was one of the finest violinists – if not the finest – of his day. He had a prodigious technique, was equally comfortable playing in multiple stops, up and down-bow staccato, fast passage work and in the highest positions on the instrument. It was his wizardry that encouraged and sustained many myths that grew up around his mysterious personality, the most famous being the visitation by the devil during his sleep that led to the composition of the famous violin sonata featured in tonight’s programme, The Devil’s Trill.
Tonight's artists are Adrian Chandler (violin), Robin Bigwood (harpsichord), Vladimir Waltham (cello).
La Serenissima was founded in 1994 by Adrian Chandler to bring to life the music of 18th-century Venice. The ensemble has delighted audiences across the world, and now has a two-year residency at London's Wigmore Hall.
Tonight, members of La Serenissima will present a selection of violin sonatas by the Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770). Tartini was one of the finest violinists – if not the finest – of his day. He had a prodigious technique, was equally comfortable playing in multiple stops, up and down-bow staccato, fast passage work and in the highest positions on the instrument. It was his wizardry that encouraged and sustained many myths that grew up around his mysterious personality, the most famous being the visitation by the devil during his sleep that led to the composition of the famous violin sonata featured in tonight’s programme, The Devil’s Trill.
