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Concerts and Tours
March 24th 2010 - Wigmore Hall Nash Inventions
Harrison Birtwistle 75th birthday concert
Claire Booth soprano, Julia Watson reciter, Lionel Friend conductor
6pm Pre-concert event: Birtwistle in conversation
At 7.30pm
Birtwistle - Five Distances for wind quintet
Eliott Carter - Poems of Louis Zukofsky (UK premiere) for soprano and clarinet
Birtwistle - Oboe Quartet (two movements)
Birtwistle - Duets for Storab for 2 flutes
Birtwistle - The Woman and the Hare for soprano, reciter , 2 flutes, clarinet, string quartet, celesta and percussion
Birtwistle - Tragoedia for wind quintet, string quartet and harp
April 13th 2010 - Queen Elizabeth Hall
Part of a LPO/SBC Bernstein Festival
*Ian Brown conductor
Bernstein - Clarinet Sonata
Gershwin - Lullaby for string quartet and possibly Promenade (Walking the Dog) from Shall we Dance) for clarinet and piano
Copland - Sextet for piano, clarinet and string quartet
Bernstein - Meditations for cello and piano
*John Adams - Shaker Loops for 3 violins, viola, 2 cellos and double bass
June 19-20th 2010 - Wigmore Hall Theresienstadt-Terezin 1941-1945
A weekend exploring the cultural life and music by composers incarcerated in the Theresienstadt concentration camp between 1941-1945.
The event will include concerts, films, talks and a children’s exhibition
Saturday June 19th
Bechstein Room
4-5.15pm - Documentary film focusing on the music played and composed in Terezin between 1941-1945
5.15-6pm - Talk to include discussion with survivers - Zdenka Fantilova actress and Helga Weissova-Hoskova artist, Greta Hofmeister solo singer in the Brundibar production in Terezin in 1943.
June 19th at 7.30pm
The Nash Ensemble with Wolfgang Holzmair baritone, Russell Ryan piano
Domazlicky - Song without words for string quartet
Songs with piano by Ilse Weber, Adolf Strauss and Carlo Taube
Gideon Klein - String Trio
Songs by Viktor Ullmann and Sikmund Schull
Hans Krasa - Passacaglia and Fugue and Tanze for string trio
Cabaret Songs by Karel Svenk, Adolf Strauss and Otto Skutecky
Sunday June 20th at 3.30pm
Janacek - String Quartet No 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata'
Pavel Haas - String Quartet No 2 Op 7 ‘Monkey Mountains’ plus percussion
6pm Bechstein Room
Film Showing of Hans Krasa’ Childrens Opera Brundibar. The film includes a short excerpt of the original performance which was performed for the International Red Cross, plus talk.
Sunday June 20th 7.30pm
with Wolfgang Holzmair baritone, Ian Brown piano and Lionel Friend conductor
Smetana - The Bartered Bride Overture (arr. David Matthews)
Hans Krasa - Brundibar Suite (arr. Petr Pokorny) for flute, 2 clarinets, bassoon, trumpet, piano, percussion, guitar, 4 violins, cello and double bass
Hans Krasa - Three Songs after poems by Rimbaud for baritone clarinet, viola and cello
Vilktor Ullmann - Piano Sonata No 6
Josef Suk - Meditations on the old Boehemian Chorale Saint Wenceslas for string quartet and double bass
Erwin Schulhoff - Duo for violin and cello
Pavel Haas - Four Songs on Chinese Poetry (arr. Jan van Wlijmen) for voice, flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, horn, trumpet, harp, guitar, celeste, string quartet and bass
Encore Ravel’s Kaddish
Exhibition of Terezin childrens drawings in the Bechstein Room and Restaurant
August 27th 2010 - Edinburgh International Festival. Morning concert - Queens Hall
Bartok - Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano
Gershwin - Lullaby for string quartet
Copland - Sextet for piano, clarinet and string quartet
Dvorak - String Quintet in Eb Op 97 ‘American’