chamber concerts

From rising young performers such as the Doric String Quartet to international virtuosi such as Piers Lane, the Subscription Series has being attracting the star of the chamber music scene to Cambridge for forty years.

Doors open 7.30pm, concerts begin 8.00pm.

BOOKING

Annual Subscription £105 – book online

Michaelmas Term £45 – book online
Lent Term £45 – book online
Easter Term £45 – book online

If you prefer not to book online please either
• call Kettle’s Yard on 01223 748100
• or send a cheque made out to ‘University of Cambridge’ with your name, address and statement of which subscriptions you wish to purchase to : Kettle’s Yard Music, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ

Subscribers may bring a guest on the night for £10.

Student subscriptions are available annual £35 and term £17. Proof of full time student status will be requested.

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The 2010-11 Subscription Concert Series programme is available for download as a pdf.

Michaelmas Term 2010

Doric String Quartet

Thursday October 21, 2010, 8.00pm
Quartets by Schumann, Bartok, Webern, Schubert

Schumann - String Quartet No.2 in F, Op.41 No.2
Bartok - String Quartet No.1 in A minor (1909)
Webern - String Quartet, Op.28 (1938)
Schubert - String Quartet No.13 in A minor, D.804 ‘Rosamunde’

http://www.doricstringquartet.com/

Piers Lane, Piano

Thursday October 28, 2010, 8.00pm

Schubert - German Dances, D783 (selection)
Ländler, D790, No.3 in D
Valses Sentimentales, D779
Brahms - Four Piano Pieces Op.119
Beethoven - Sonata in A flat Op.110
Chopin - Four Ballades

http://www.pierslane.com/

Owen Willetts, counter tenor; Nathan Vane, tenor; Jonathan Beatty, piano

Thursday November 4, 2010, 8.00pm
Folk songs and duets by Purcell and Britten

Britten - Canticle 2 ‘Abraham & Isaac’
Songs, folk songs and duets by Purcell and Britten.

http://owenwilletts.com/

Andrew Watkinson & Sara Trickey, violins

Thursday November 11, 2010, 8.00pm
Music from Jean-Marie Leclair, David Matthews, Haydn, Bartok and Prokofiev

Jean-Marie Leclair - Sonata in F major
David Matthews - Eight Duos Op.79 (1999)
Haydn - Duo in B flat Op.99
Bartok - Selection of Duos
Prokofiev - Sonata Op.56

http://www.saratrickey.com/

Gould Piano Trio

Thursday November 18, 2010, 8.00pm

Haydn -Trio in F# minor, XV:26
Clara Schumann - Trio in G minor, Op.17
Brahms - No 2 in C major, Op.87

http://www.gouldpianotrio.com/

Lent Term 2011

Elizabeth Watts, soprano & Roger Vignoles, piano

Thursday February 3, 2011, 8.00pm
Songs by Purcell, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and folk songs arranged by Britten.

Purcell
From rosy bow’rs
An Epithalamium
Music for a while
Not all my torments
Sweeter than roses
           T’was within a furlong of Edinburgh town

Prokofiev
Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova Op.27

Rachmaninov
Lilacs, Op.21, No.5
Oni otvechali, Op.21, No.4
Zdes' khorosho, Op.21, No.7
Ikalos’ li tebe, Natasha? Son Op.38, No.5
Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne, Op.4, No.4
Kakoje schast'je Op.34, No.12

Folksongs arr. Britten
Sweet Polly Oliver
The bonny Earl o’ Moray
O waly, waly
Come you not from Newcastle?
Oft in the stilly night
The brisk young widow

http://www.elizabethwattssoprano.com

Alasdair Beatson, piano

Thursday February 10, 2011, 8.00pm
Music from Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Fauré and Dutilleux

Mendelssohn - Fantasia in F sharp minor, Op.28 ‘Sonate écossaise’
Beethoven - Sonata in F minor, Op.57 ‘Appassionata’
Fauré - heme and Variations, Op.73
Dutilleux - Sonata

http://www.alasdairbeatson.com/

Doric String Quartet

Thursday February 17, 2011, 8.00pm

Haydn - String Quartet in A, Op.20 No.6
Mendelssohn - String Quartet No.5 in E flat, Op.44 No.3
Berg - Lyric Suite

http://www.doricstringquartet.com/

Philip Higham, cello and Nicola Eimer, piano

Thursday February 24, 2011, 8.00pm
Music from JS Bach, Janacek, Schuman and Brahms

JS Bach - Gamba Sonata No.1 in G, BWV.1027
Janacek - Pohadka (Fairy tale)
Schumann - Drei Phantasiestücke, Op.73
Brahms - Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor, Op.38

http://www.ycat.co.uk/philip-higham
http://www.nicolaeimer.com/

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

Thursday March 3, 2011, 8.00pm
Music from Handel, Brahms, Fabio Tognetti and Schuman

Handel - Suite in B major
Brahms - Variations & Fugue on a theme of Handel in B major Op.24
Fabio Tognetti - Hommage a Schumann
Schumann - Sonata No.1 in F# minor, Op.11

http://www.piemontesi.org/

Easter Term 2011

Doric String Quartet

Thursday April 28, 2011, 8.00pm
Music from Haydn, Bartok and Schubert

Haydn - Quartet in C, Op.20 No.2
Bartok - String Quartet No.4
Schubert - String Quartet in D minor, D.810 'Death and the Maiden’

http://www.doricstringquartet.com/

Huw Watkins, piano

Thursday May 5, 2011, 8.00pm
music from a variety of composers

Schumann - Albumblätter Op.124 No.4
John Woolrich - Pianobook 11
Ravel - Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
Knussen - Ophelia’s Last Dance
Ravel - Valses Nobles et sentimentales
Schumann - Albumblätter Op.124 Nos 11, 17
John Woolrich - Pianobook 12
Schumann - Carnaval, Op.9

http://www.myspace.com/huwwatkins

Nicholas Daniel, oboe and Lucy Wakeford, harp

Thursday May 12, 2011, 8.00pm
Music from Boccherini, Spohr and others

Boccherini - Sonata in C
Spohr - Sonata in C Minor
Satie - Gymnopedies,
Birtwhistle - Orpheus Elegies (extracts)
Britten - Harp Suite
Britten - 6 metamorphoses after Ovid
Jolivet - Incantation

http://www.nicholasdaniel.com/

Rhodes Piano Trio

Thursday May 19, 2011, 8.00pm
Music from Haydn, Shuman and Beethoven

Haydn - B flat Hob. XV: 20
Schumann - Piano Trio No.2 in F, Op.80
Beethoven - Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 ‘The Archduke’

http://www.ycat.co.uk/rhodes-piano-trio

Heath Quartet

Thursday May 26, 2011, 8.00pm
Music from Haydn, Britten and Beethoven

Haydn - String Quartet in D, Op.71 No.2
Britten - String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.25
Beethoven - String Quartet in B flat, Op.130

http://www.heathquartet.com/