DUMFRIES MUSIC CLUB

PROGRAMME 2010-2011 SEASON

Friday 8 October 2010: The Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Programme:           Purcell                           Fantazias Nos. 11 & 7

                                Carolyn Sparey            Fantasia in G (Scottish premiere)

                                Glazunov                       Interludium in Modo Antiqua

                                Shostakovich              String Quartet No.8

                                Haydn                            String Quartet in D major, Op.76/5

Friday 12 November 2010: Ashley Solomon and Terence Charlston (baroque flute & harpsichord)

Programme of Italian music:      

                                Locatelli                        Sonata in C major Op.8 No.1

                                Monza                           Suite in C minor

  F.M.Veracini                Sonata  in E minor Op.1 No.6

  A.Corelli                        Sonata in E minor Op.5 No.8

  Monari/Pasquini         2 Sonatas/Toccatas con lo scherzo del lucco

  G.Platti                           Sonata in G major Op.3 No.2

Sunday 12 December 2010: The Conference of Birds – piano, violin, flute, cello, soprano and dancer.

Programme (based on bird song, from 17thC to 2010)):

                                Schmelzer                  Sonata Representiva

                                Rameau                       La Poule

                                Handel                         Sweet Bird

                                Janacek                      They  chattered like swallows

                                                                      The Barn Owl has not flown away

                                Granados                   The Maiden and the Nightingale

                                Messiaen                     Le Merle Noir

                                Richard Rodney Bennett    Tunes for the instruction of singing birds

                                Albuquerque              Uirapurus

                                Peter Cowdrey         The  Song Thrush

                                                                     Second Spring

                                                                      Winter Music

                                                                      Blackbird Fugue

                                The Conference of Birds - Improvisations

                                                               

Sunday 30 January 2011: Katharine Durran (piano) and Sebastian Comberti (cello)

Programme:

                                Mendelssohn           Sonata No.2 in D major Op.58

                                Beethoven                Sonata No.3 in A major Op.69

                                Beethoven                Sonata No.4 in C major  Op.102, No.1

  Selection of miniatures by  Emanuel Moor, Alice Mary Smith, Dvorak,

   Mercaddante,  Fanny Mendelssohn,  Popper, Glazunov and  Cassado.

Friday 11 February 2011: The Benyounes String Quartet

Programme:

                                Haydn                       String  Quartet Op.54. No.1

                                Ravel                         String Quartet

                                Beethoven               String Quartet Op.130

                                Marcus Blunt          Short piece for string quartet

Sunday 27 February 2011: The Nephele Ensemble (flute and strings) – concert sponsored by the Tunnell Trust

Programme:

                                Haydn                       Quartet in D major, Op.1 No.5

                                Ries                           Quartet in C major Op.145 No.1

                                Faure                         Fantasie  ( arr for flute & strings by Timothy Salter)

                                Nicholas Maw          Quartet for flute and strings

Friday 25 March 2011: Benjamin Frith & Peter Hill (piano duo)

Programme:

                                Schubert                    Fantasie in F minor

                                Beethoven                 Waldstein Variations

                                Rachmaninov           Six Morceaux Op.11

                                Stravinsky                 The Rite of Spring

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Sat 25 June 2011
Young Musicians Concert