Concert Series 2018-2019
Previous concerts of the Season:
Friday 6 July 2018
Abel Selaocoe, cello
Tyler Hay, piano
Rodion Shchedrin ~ In the Style of Albeniz
Samuel Barber ~ Cello Sonata
Maurice Ravel ~ In the Style of ‘Habanera’
Benjamin Britten ~ Cello Sonata
James Macmillan ~ Kiss on Wood
Giovanni Sollima ~ Lamentatio
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Friday 5 October 2018
Edward Goater, tenor
Christopher Sheldrake, piano
Brahms ~ Vier Erneste Gesänge
Schubert ~ Prometheus
Schubert ~ Ganymed
Goater ~ I Sing of a Maiden
Venables ~ At Midnight
Venables ~ Frying Crooked
Venables ~ Vitae Summa Brevis
Venables ~ The Hippo
Drayton ~ One Night…
An astronomical cycle of six songs for tenor and piano
Aldebaran at dusk
The Brightest Planet and her Guest
Galileo
Moonscape
Andromeda
…In a thousand years
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Local composer and musician Paul Drayton has become increasingly well-known for his contribution to music-making in Cornwall. Paul is the musical director of Duchy Opera and St Austell Music Society, and taught at Truro College for many years. As a composer, Paul Drayton has an international reputation, having composed works for the King’s Singers, Dame Gillian Weir and Washington National Cathedral.
Closer to home, Paul Drayton has been commissioned by Truro Choral Society and Truro 3 Arts, as well as having his compositions performed by Duchy Opera, Truro Cathedral Choir and Three Spires Choir and Orchestra. Paul Drayton’s song cycle ‘One night…’ sets literary passages which meditate on the enormity of celestial phenomena. The work was composed for tenor Edward Goater, and we are excited that Edward and Christopher Sheldrake, who performed the premiere at Wells Cathedral in 2016, are able to share Paul’s work with us, alongside a selection of other songs popular within the vocal repertoire.
Friday 19 October 2018
Piatti String Quartet
Purcell ~ Chacony arr. Britten
Britten ~ 3 Divertimenti
Debussy ~ String Quartet in G minor
Beethoven ~ String Quartet No.8 in E minor
(Op.59 No.2 “Rasumovsky”)
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Friday 16 November 2018
Piers Lane, piano
Mozart ~ Sonata in C Major K.545
Mozart ~ Adagio in B minor K.540
Beethoven ~ Sonata in F minor “Appassionata” (Op.57)
Chopin ~ Nocturne Nos.1 & 2 (Op.27)
Rachmaninov ~ Variations on a Theme of Chopin (Op.22)
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Friday 7 December 2018
Alexandra Lomeiko, violin
Antonina Suhanova, piano
Mozart ~ Sonata in G Major K.301
Prokofiev ~ Five Melodies (Op.35bis)
Brahms ~ Violin Sonata No. 2 (Op.100)
Elgar ~ Sonata in E minor (Op.82)
Wieniawski ~ Variations on an Original Theme (Op.15)
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Friday 18 January 2019
Fontanella Recorder Quintet
‘The Woods so Wild’
Inspired by the sights, senses and sounds of nature, William Byrd’s famous setting forms a backdrop to a feast of frottole, verelai, songs and chansons featuring the swan, lark, nightingale and the pleasures of the “oken wood”. The programme features music from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries including Gibbons, Wilbye, Marenzio, Purcell and Vivaldi, plus contemporary music by Tim Coker and Tomi Räisänen.
Friday 8 February 2019
Jacquin Trio
Mozart ~ Kegelstatt Trio K.498
Bartók ~ Contrasts Sz 111
Schumann ~ Märchenerzählungen
Charlotte Bray ~ Blaze and Fall
Françaix ~ Trio
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“The Jacquin Trio appear to have found themselves a niche which they are exploring with excellent musicianship and enterprising vision.”
Bournemouth Echo
Friday 22 March 2019
Voces8
Voces8 offer an eclectic programme to include works by Byrd, Britten, Charles V.Stanford, Purcell, Tavener, Mundy and Hunt. The ensemble will also perform In Beauty May I Walk by their composer-in-residence Jonathan Dove. Voces8 will conclude the concert with folk, popular and jazz a cappella arrangements.
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“The singing of Voces8 is impeccable in its quality of tone and balance. They bring a new dimension to the word ‘ensemble’.”
Gramophone
