CITY MUSIC SOCIETY
Early
Evening Concerts
Concerts begin at 7.00 pm at Goldsmiths'
Hall
Foster Lane, London
EC2V 6BN
(note different days)
CITY MUSIC SOCIETY
Early
Evening Concerts
Concerts begin at 7.00 pm at Goldsmiths'
Hall
Foster Lane, London
EC2V 6BN
(note different days)
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Tickets
for concerts at Goldsmiths' Hall are available
only to members of the City Music Society and
their guests. See Membership
Details. Please note that the day of the concert varies. Tickets
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| Members
of the City Music Society are invited to bring
as their guests to Goldsmiths’ Hall concerts young
people from 8 to 22 years of age and pay only
half the cost of the adult ticket. 8-15 year-olds
must be accompanied by an adult. The City Music Society is pleased to offer JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP to anyone between the ages of 16 and 22 years of age in full-time education for a fee of £5 per year. Proof of age and/or student ID card required. Junior tickets and membership are subsidised by the CAVATINA CHAMBER MUSIC TRUST. |
| 18 February 2009 Wednesday) | |
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BERNARD ROBERTS piano |
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Beethoven |
Seven Bagatelles Op. 33 |
| Beethoven | Sonata in C Op. 53 ('Waldstein') |
| Schubert | Sonata in B flat D960 |
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Long acknowledged as one of Britain's leading pianists, Bernard Roberts is renowned as a particularly profound interpreter of Beethoven and Schubert and it is a great privilege for the Society to host him again, for the first time since a concert at Bishopsgate in 2000. He has performed at all the major British music festivals and his career has taken him to the Far East, Southern Africa, America and Europe. Highly regarded as a teacher as well as a performer, he has given many masterclasses in Germany, France and Denmark and he retains a Visiting Professorship at the Royal College of Music in London, having taught there for over forty years. |
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| 19 March 2009 (Thursday) | |
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ROYAL STRING
QUARTET |
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| Mozart | Quartet in D K499 |
| Mendelssohn | Quartet in A minor Op.13 |
| Beethoven | Quartet in F Op.135 |
| Formed at the Frederick Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, the Royal Quartet was greatly influenced by the tutelage of the Alban Berg Quartet, a relationship founded during a period of study at the Hochschule für Musik between 2001 and 2004. They have received many awards including first prize in Casala Monferrato (2000) and were selected as BBC New Generation Artists. The Quartet founded its own chamber music festival, 'Kwartesencja' - 'The Essence of the Quartet', in Warsaw in 2004. Extensive touring throughout Europe is complemented by a discography of 5 CDs including a recent one for Hyperion. | |
| 7 April 2009 (Tuesday) | |
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THE HANOVER BAND SOLOISTS GARY COOPER fortepiano |
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| Haydn in Love | |
| Haydn | Piano Trio in G Hob XXV (Gypsy Rondo) |
| Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414 |
| Haydn | Piano Trio in A Hob XVIII |
| Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 13 in C K415 |
| Mozart arranged three piano concertos himself for string quartet and fortepiano and this programme gives a wonderful taste of the beautiful sound world of Mozart's time, performed by one of the leading period instrument ensembles. Gary Cooper plays a superb copy of a Viennese piano of about 1790 and introduces contemporary accounts of some of Haydn's activities and antics during his visit to London in that decade. Founded in 1980, the Hanover Band has established an excellent reputation for its performances and recordings of 18th and 19th century music. | |
For
further information about these concerts please
contact
Josephine Richardson, City Music Society Administrator,
Tel. 020-8542 0950
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Latest
update: 31 December 2008
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