our subscription season 2011–12
Concert Dates: 7.30 pm on Sundays
2011: 9 October, 13 November, 4 December
2012: 29 January, 19 February, 11 March
This year the Society presents its ‘silver anniversary’ season: a wonderful array of musicians of the highest standard, some at the start of promising careers, others at the height of their powers – perhaps most perfectly illustrated by the opening and closing performers, David Wilde and Denis Kozhukhin (gala recitalist), both pianists of prodigious talent, born fifty years apart. In between are concerts of enormous variety and interest, presenting works, familiar and unfamiliar, spanning three centuries, by composers as diverse as Beethoven and Count Basie. It’s a veritable cornucopia of musical riches, which the Society looks forward to sharing with its ever-expanding audiences.
2011: 9 October, 13 November, 4 December
2012: 29 January, 19 February, 11 March
This year the Society presents its ‘silver anniversary’ season: a wonderful array of musicians of the highest standard, some at the start of promising careers, others at the height of their powers – perhaps most perfectly illustrated by the opening and closing performers, David Wilde and Denis Kozhukhin (gala recitalist), both pianists of prodigious talent, born fifty years apart. In between are concerts of enormous variety and interest, presenting works, familiar and unfamiliar, spanning three centuries, by composers as diverse as Beethoven and Count Basie. It’s a veritable cornucopia of musical riches, which the Society looks forward to sharing with its ever-expanding audiences.
Sunday 9 October 2011, 7.30pm DAVID WILDE, piano
cancelled owing to illness
Sunday 23 October 2011, 7.30pm
CHRISTINA LAWRIE, piano
Bach-Howe: Sheep may safely graze
Chopin: Ballade No. 4
Rachmaninov: 7 pieces for piano
Carl Vine: 5 Bagatelles
Beethoven: Sonata in C major op. 53 "Waldstein"
We were fortunate to be able to engage this very fine young Scottish pianist at short notice when David Wilde was unable to perform for us, and we are most grateful to her for stepping into the breach!
This is what she wrote to us after her recital:
Haddington Concert Society has all the best features of the professionally managed concert venues
(a really magnificent piano, fine venue, beautifully produced programmes and posters, healthy audience numbers)
but has all the relaxed friendliness, warmth and couthiness of the music club network.
I had such a lovely time, and have taken away lovely memories of my visit to Haddington.
Sunday 13 November 2011, 7.30pm
SOUTHBANK TRIO
Claire Overbury, flute
Sophie Rivlin, cello
Elspeth Wyllie, piano
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in D major, Op. 102 No. 2
Bowen: Sonata for flute and piano
Martinů: Trio for flute, cello & piano, H. 300
Gaubert: Trois Aquarelles
A cornucopia of riches – Beethoven’s visionary late work for cello;
the magnificently rich and profound harmonic language of Edwin York Bowen;
Martinů at his most captivating; and a work by Philippe Gaubert,
“so lovely that it’s almost painful”. Who could resist?
http://www.southbankduo.co.ukweeblylink_new_window
Sunday 4 December 2011, 7.30pm
'YOUTH AND MARRIAGE'
Wilma MacDougall, soprano
Paul Keohone, baritone
Julia Lynch, piano
If music be the food of love...
a heady evening of songs, arias, lieder, and duets mapping
the journey from first love to true passion, with works by Mozart, Donizetti,
Mendelssohn, Grieg, Lehar, Quilter, and Butterworth,and a finale of American theatre songs.
Sunday 29 January 2011, 7.30pm
FINZI QUARTET
Haydn: Quartet in B flat major, Op. 50 No. 1
Ravel: Quartet in F major
Brahms: Quartet in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1
A rich programme from a prize-winning young ensemble, to whom the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation awarded the use for two years of 'The Evangelists', the world’s only played matched set of string quartet instruments, dated 1863, by the French master luthier Jean Baptiste Vuillaume.
http://www.finziquartet.co.ukweeblylink_new_window
FINZI QUARTET
Haydn: Quartet in B flat major, Op. 50 No. 1
Ravel: Quartet in F major
Brahms: Quartet in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1
A rich programme from a prize-winning young ensemble, to whom the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation awarded the use for two years of 'The Evangelists', the world’s only played matched set of string quartet instruments, dated 1863, by the French master luthier Jean Baptiste Vuillaume.
http://www.finziquartet.co.ukweeblylink_new_window
Sunday 19 February 2011, 7.30pm
MAXIMILIANO MARTIN AND LLYR WILLIAMS
PLAY BRAHMS
“liquid virtuosity which flows like oil” The Herald – Martín
“acute sensitivity with intellectual rigour” The Herald – Williams
Sonata for clarinet and piano in F minor, Op. 120 No 1
Intermezzi for piano solo, Op. 118 Nos. 1, 2, & 6, and Op.119 No. 4
Fantasias for piano solo, Op. 116
Sonata for clarinet and piano in E flat major, Op. 120 No 2
A rare opportunity to hear two of today’s finest musicians together – the SCO’s peerless principal clarinettist
and a pianist considered “one of the greatest of the modern day” (The Herald) – performing late works
by Brahms, written in the last years of his life and each a masterpiece of its genre.
http://www.maximilianomartin.comweeblylink_new_window • http://www.llyrwilliams.comweeblylink_new_window
Sunday 11 March 2011, 7.30pm
TOMMY SMITH YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA
at the Corn Exchange
“precise and assured ensemble work and imaginative soloing at every turn" Scotsman
The cream of young Scottish jazz players, with the inimitable Tommy Smith at the helm, in works old and new – excerpts from their newest CD “Emergence” and original arrangements of some of the greatest names in classical jazz – Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, and Count Basie.
http://www.tsyjo.comweeblylink_new_window
TOMMY SMITH YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA
at the Corn Exchange
“precise and assured ensemble work and imaginative soloing at every turn" Scotsman
The cream of young Scottish jazz players, with the inimitable Tommy Smith at the helm, in works old and new – excerpts from their newest CD “Emergence” and original arrangements of some of the greatest names in classical jazz – Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, and Count Basie.
http://www.tsyjo.comweeblylink_new_window
