Concerts 2016-2017

July 11, 2017 July 9, 2018

Thursday 29 September 2016 7.30pm Malvern Theatres

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Mozart String Quartet No.14 in G, K.387
Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op.76, No.2
Schubert String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D.810, Death and the Maiden

Thursday 27 October 2016 7.30pm Malvern Theatres

Imogen Cooper piano

Beethoven 7 Bagatelles, Op.33
Schumann Davidsbündlertänze, Op.6
Debussy La Puerta del Vino; La soirée dans Grenade
Albeniz Iberia selection: Book 3: El Albaicin; Book 1: Evocación; El puerto; Fête-dieu à Seville

Thursday 24 November 2016 7.30pm Malvern Theatres

Stile Antico

‘The Touches of Sweet Harmony’ – The Musical World of William Shakespeare

Music by William Byrd, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Robert Johnson, Thomas Morley, Nico Muhly, Robert Ramsey, Thomas Tomkins, Huw Watkins, Thomas Weelkes and John Wilbye

Thursday 26 January 2017 7.30pm Malvern Theatres

Robert Plane clarinet

Sacconi String Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in G, Op.76, No.1
York Bowen Phantasy Quintet, Op.93
Glazunov Oriental Reverie, Op.14
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115

Sunday 26 February 2017 3.00pm Malvern Theatres

Roderick Williams baritone

Iain Burnside piano

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin, D.795

This recital is excluded from the annual subscription series, but reduced price tickets are available to Club members.

Thursday 9 March 2017 7.30pm Malvern Theatres

Emerson String Quartet

Dvořák String Quartet No.11 in C, Op.61
Shostakovich String Quartet No.4 in D, Op.83
Beethoven String Quartet No.15 in A minor, Op.132

Friday 7 April 2017 2.30pm St Edmund’s Hall, Malvern

Clare Hammond piano

Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Suite No.6 in G
Beethoven Sonata No.4 in E flat, Op.7
Scriabin Sonata No.5, Op.53
Debussy L’isle joyeuse
Dutilleux Au gré des ondes
Fauré 2 Nocturnes: No. 8 in D ﬂat, Op.84, No.8; No.12 in E minor, Op.107
Stravinsky Petroushka Suite

Thursday 27 April 2017 7.30pm Malvern Theatres

Scott Brothers Duo one piano, four hands

Music by Albéniz, Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Schubert and Tárrega

Elizabeth Bass Concert: sold out

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Only two tickets left for the Elizabeth Bass concert

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Ernie Kay MBE 1 April 1931 – 4 January 2019

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Tickets now on sale for trip to Birmingham Symphony Hall Concert 20th March 2019

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Malvern Concert Club

2 weeks ago

You can read Peter Johnson's review of the recital by the Wihan Quartet on 7th March here:

The Wihan Quartet, led by Leoš Čepickỷ, belongs to a distinguished line of Czech quartets, including the Talich and the Prazac, whose members are entirely Czech. Their tradition was perfectly illustrated by tonight’s encore, the finale of Dvořák’s American Quartet, in which an uninhibited joyfulness was achieved by fine discipline and a determination to avoid everything mechanical. Vivacity and discipline also characterized Haydn’s Quartet Op. 54 No.1, driven throughout by the intelligent and communicative playing of their cellist, Michal Kaňka. The third movement, with its five-bar phrases and dancing Trio section, felt authentically Bohemian.

Beethoven’s last quartet, Op. 135 in F major, was played in the more international later-20th style, with highly dramatized gestures at the start of the Finale and a very slow Lento Assai, as if it were notated in 3/4 or 3/2 rather than 6/8. But the Bohemian lilt was never far away, as in the opening dialogues of the first movement, or the closing variation of the Lento Assai, where the cellist’s subtly swaying rhythms created the perfect ground for the first violin’s beautifully caressed arabesques.

After the interval came Tchaikovsky’s huge 3rd Quartet, music that makes very different demands on its players: no bright, jolly rhythms here but a brooding intensity that requires concentrated, sustained tone and the power to give purpose to very long phrases – and in the dark key of E flat minor. A strong Slavic sympathy for this music was everywhere apparent, and at the technical level these musicians showed just how to sustain long phrases, to shape movements over periods of fifteen minutes and more, and especially how to sustain their audience’s attention, for there was never a dull moment. Overall this was a fine and memorable performance. Let’s hope the Wihan Quartet can visit us again, perhaps with some Janáček?

Professor Peter Johnson
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Malvern Concert Club

2 weeks ago

Thank you to the Wihan Quartet for their magnificant recital of Haydn, Beehoven and Tchaikovsky on Thursday 7th March. The quartet made a special journey to Malvern for this concert. The encore they played was the fourth movement of Dvořák's String Quartet No.12, Op. 96 "American". A recording by the Wihan Quartet is available from Nimbus. ... See MoreSee Less

Dvořák String Quartet Op. 61 and Op. 96 'American'

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<p>Following the success of the Beethoven String Quartet cycle, the Wihan Quartet returns with their new release of Dvorák’s String Quartets. The Wihan Quartet, formed in 1985, are heirs to the gre...

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Malvern Concert Club

1 month ago

Many thanks to Iain Burnside and Roderick Williams for their splendid recital of Schubert Song, including Schwanengesang, this afternoon. The encore of Gerald Finzi's setting of 'Fear no more the heat of the sun' from Shakespeare's Cymbelline in honour of our former Publicity Officer, Vice President and benefactor Ernie Kay (1 April 1931- 4 January 2019) to whom this concert was dedicated, was entirely fitting, and very moving.

These three Sunday afternoon recitals have been full of beauty, fear, joy, sadness, and humour. Most of all they have been an extraordinary musical collaboration between one of the most able composers of song and two excellent communicators of his work. Thank you again for enriching three February afternoons for the members of Malvern Concert Club, and other admirers of Schubert's songs. ... See MoreSee Less

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Benjamin Frith © Chris Nottingham; Pavel Haas Quartet © Marco Borggreve; Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel; Tasmin Little © Benjamin Ealovega; The Gesualdo Six © AshMills; Iestyn Davies © Chris Sorensen, Thomas Dunford © Julien Benhamou; Michael Dussek © Gary Italiaander.

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