Concert Archive
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We keep an archive of past concerts and artist appearances and you can find details of the last five seasons below. Whether you’re reminiscing about a favourite performance or interested in exploring our musical history, the archive is a great place to dive deeper into what makes the Society special.
2024/25 season
Tuesday, 1st October 2024
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Debussy – Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Bax – Nonet
Schubert – Octet in F major, D803
Tuesday, 22nd October 2024
Ryan Corbett (accordion)
Liszt – Prelude and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, 260/2
J S Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier – 2 preludes and fugues
Gubaidulina – De Profundis
Angelis – Romance
Zolotaryov – Rondo Capriccioso
Tchaikovsky – Children’s Album, op. 39
(All arrangements by Ryan Corbett)
Tuesday, 26th November 2024
Laura van der Heijden (cello) and Jâms Coleman (piano)
Lili Boulanger – Reflets
Fauré – Clair de Lune, op. 46 no. 2
Debussy – Cello Sonata in D minor, L135
Britten – 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo – Sonetto XXX
Britten – Cello Sonata in C major, op. 65
Price – Night
Takemitsu – Will Tomorrow, I Wonder, Be Cloudy or Clear
Korngold – Die schönste Nacht
Franck (arr. Desart) – Violin Sonata
Sunday, 2nd February 2025
Goldscheider Horn Trio
Mozart (arr. Naumann) – Horn Quintet in E flat major, K407
Ligeti – Trio for violin, horn and piano (‘Hommage à Brahms’)
Watkins – Coruscation & Reflection for violin and piano
Brahms – Horn Trio in E flat major, op. 40
Tuesday, 18th March 2025
Lumas Winds
Mozart – Overture to the Marriage of Figaro
Knussen – Three Little Fantasies, op. 6A
Danzi – Wind Quintet in B flat major, op.56 no. 1
Barber – Summer Music, op. 31
Coleman – Afro-Cuban Concerto
Nielsen – Wind Quintet, op. 43
Friday, 25th April 2025
Heath Quartet
Haydn – String Quartet in B flat major, op. 50 no. 1
Britten – Three Divertimenti
Dvořák – String Quartet no. 10 in E flat major, op. 51
2023/24 season
Saturday, 14th October 2023
Pocket Sinfonia
Fanny Mendelssohn (arr. Duncumb) – Overture in C major.
Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Corr) – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (suite)
Prokofiev (arr. Corr) – Romeo and Juliet (suite)
Tuesday, 28th November 2023
James Newby (baritone) & Joseph Middleton (piano)
Britten – I Wonder as I Wander ; There’s None to Soothe
Schubert – Der Wanderer (D489/493); Auf der Donau (D553); Auf der Bruck (D853)
John Casken – Lines from a Wanderer
Beethoven – Maigesang (op. 52 no. 4); Adelaide (op. 46); An die ferne Geliebte (op. 98)
Jonathan Dove – All You Who Sleep Tonight
Errollyn Wallen – About Here
Britten – At the Mid Hour of Night; Sail on, Sail on
Sunday, 21st January 2024
Ensemble 360
Mahler – Piano Quartet (in one movement) in A minor
Fauré – Piano Quartet no. 2 in G minor, op. 45
Dvořák – Piano Quartet no. 2 in E flat major, op. 87
Saturday, 10th February 2024
Zehetmair Quartet
Brahms – String Quartet no. 1 in C minor, op. 51 no. 1
Webern – Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, op. 9
Sibelius – String Quartet in D minor, op. 56 (‘Voces Intimae’)
Sunday, 10th March 2024
Ferio Saxophone Quartet
Handel (arr. Farrington) – Water Music (selection)
Handel – Sarabande (from Harpsichord Suite in D minor, HWV 437)
Elgar (arr. Ferio) – Serenade for Strings, op. 20
Hugo Reinhart – Quartet in F minor (selection)
Gershwin (arr. Nigel Wood) – An American in Paris
Andy Scott – My Mountain Top
Guillermo Lago – Ciudades (selection)
Saturday, 13th April 2024
Khrystyna Mykhailichenko (piano)
J S Bach – French Suite no.5 in G Major, BWV816
Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.4 in E flat major, op. 7
Schumann – Humoresque in B flat major, op. 20
2022 – 2023 season
Tuesday, 4th October 2022
Dominic Degavino
Beethoven – Piano Sonata no. 3 in C major, op. 2 no. 3
Amy Beach – Five Improvisations, op. 148
Schubert – Allegretto in C minor, D915
Brahms – Piano Sonata no. 3 in F minor, op. 5
Tuesday, 15th November 2022
Pelléas Ensemble
Debussy (arr. Roberts) – Prélude à l’Après-Midi d’un Faune
Rebecca Clarke (arr. Tunnicilffe) – Four Songs
Jolivet – Petite Suite
Dowland (arr.Tunnicliffe) – In Darkness Let me Dwell/ If my Complaints Could Passions Move
Purcell (arr. Tunnicliffe) – Fantasia upon One Note
Ethel Smyth – Variations on Bonny Sweet Robin
Tchaikovsky – Selections from Swan Lake
Sunday, 29th January 2023
Bradley Creswick (violin) and Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
Beethoven – Violin Sonata no. 8 in G major, op. 30 no. 3
Dvořák – Romance in F minor, op. 11
Bartók – Romanian Dances, Sz. 56
Elgar – Violin Sonata in E minor, op. 82
Sunday, 19th February 2023
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
Mozart – String Quartet no. 23 in F major, K590
Tchaikovsky – String Quartet no. 1 in D major, op. 11
Shostakovich – String Quartet no. 5 in B flat major, op. 92
Friday, 10th March 2023
Rachel Podger (violin)
Tutta Sola
An evening of baroque music for solo violin
Programme included
Bach – Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565, arr. for solo violin in A minor
Tartini – Violin Sonata no. 17 from Piccole Sonate
Traditional – Celtic and English tunes, including from Playford’s Dancing Master
Saturday, 1st April 2023
Mithras Trio
Beethoven – Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 1 no. 1
Bridge – Phantasie Trio in C minor (Piano Trio no. 1)
Dvořák – Piano Trio no. 4 in E minor, op. 90 (‘Dumky’)
2021 – 2022 season
Tuesday, 19th October 2021
Consone Quartet
Haydn – String Quartet in B flat major, op. 33 no. 4
Fanny Mendelssohn – String Quartet in E flat major
Schubert – Quartettsatz, D703
Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet in D major, op. 44 no. 1
Friday, 29th October 2021
Sacconi Quartet and Emma Abbate
Sacconi photo – Alejandro Tamagno
Rachmaninov – Romance (from String Quartet no. 1)
Shostakovich – Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57
Elgar – Piano Quintet, op.84
Sunday, 20th February 2022
Florilegium
Haydn (arr. Salomon) – Symphony no. 101 in D major, ‘The Clock’
Mozart – Flute Quartet no. 1 in D major, K285
Haydn (arr. Salomon) –Symphony no. 94 in G major, ‘Surprise’
Haydn (arr. Salomon) –Symphony no. 104 in D major, ‘London’
Tuesday, 22nd March 2022
Mithras Trio
Haydn –Piano Trio in G major, Hob. XV:41
Brahms –Piano Trio no. 3 in C minor, op. 101
Schubert – Piano Trio no. 2 in E flat major, D929
Thursday, 7th April 2022
Rattle Őzsuca Duo - Sacha Rattle (clarinet), Zeynep Őzsuca (piano)
Hindemith – Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B flat major
Stanford – Three Intermezzi, op. 13
Bernstein – Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Schumann – Fantasiestűcke, op. 73
Berg – Four Pieces, op. 5
Brahms – Sonata in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, op. 120 no. 1
Tuesday, 22nd March 2022
Patrick Hemmerlé (piano)
Debussy –Estampes
Godowsky – Java Suite, book 1
Albéniz –Iberia, book 1
Liszt –Venezia e Napoli
2019 – 2020 season
Sunday, 22nd September 2019
KOTTOS
Photo © Martin Mydtskov Rønne
Vivaldi (arr. KOTTOS) – La Folia
Mogensen – Green Mountain
Opsahl – Encrypto
Petersen – Crowds
Farmakis – Reptile
Nielsen (arr. KOTTOS) – Aladdin Suite
Piazzolla (arr. Mogensen) – Maria de Buenos Aires
Skalkottas (arr. Farmakis) – 4 Greek Dances
Vaughan Williams (arr. Mogensen) – 6 Studies in English Folk Song
Liadov (arr. Mogensen) – 8 Russian Folk Songs, op. 58
Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Petersen) – Song of India
Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Petersen, Mogensen) – Lithuanian Dance
Jacob Gade (arr. Mogensen) – Tango Jalousie
Tuesday, 15th October 2019
Boxwood & Brass
Photo © Tom Bowles
Beethoven – Sextet in E-flat major, op. 71
Beethoven – Septet in E-flat major, op. 20
Friday, 15th November 2019
Zimro Trio
Milhaud – Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, op. 157b
Huw Watkins – Dream
Bartók – Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Sz. 111
Mozart – Clarinet Trio in E-flat major, K498 (Kegelstatt Trio)
Gershwin (arr. Birtel) – Three Preludes
Copland (arr. Hannan) – Suite from Appalachian Spring
Tuesday, 28th January 2020
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Mozart – Piano Sonata no. 14 in C minor, K457
Schubert – Piano Sonata no. 13 in A major, D664
Saariaho – Ballade
Scriabin – Preludes (selection)
Rachmaninov – Piano Sonata no. 2 in B-flat minor
Thursday, 20th February 2020
Sophie Rosa (violin), Roberto Carrillo-Garcia (double bass, guitar) and Gemma Beeson (piano)
Piazzolla – Histoire du Tango
Toldrà – Sonetí de la Rosada
Monti – Csárdás
Paganini – Cantabile
Bottesini – Rêverie
Piazzolla – Four Seasons in Buenos Aires
Machado – Pé de Moleque
Carrillo-Garcia – Piece for violin and guitar
Monday, 16th March 2020
Sacconi Quartet
Haydn – String Quartet in D, op. 64 no. 5 (The Lark)
Beethoven – String Quartet no. 11 in F minor, op. 95 (Serioso)
Mendelssohn – String Quartet no. 1 in E-flat major, op. 12