ANDREW MARRINER, clarinet & OLGA SITKOVETSKY, piano … [more]
Robert Schumann - 3 Romances, Op.94
A piano solo
Arnold Bax - Sonata for clarinet & piano
Alban Berg - 4 pieces for clarinet & piano
Franz Schubert - 3 lieder, arr. Marriner
Johannes Brahms - Sonata in E flat, for clarinet & piano
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DORIC STRING QUARTET
Mozart - String Quartet No.2 in D minor, K.421
Janácek - Quartet No.2, Intimate Letters
Beethoven - String Quartet in F, Op.59 No.1 (Rasumovsky)
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The concert will be an exhilarating trip around the world with some of the most exciting pieces by contemporary British composers. It starts in England with Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy. Percy Grainger, an Australian by birth, made meticulous notations of English folk songs 100 years ago and based this piece on them.

We will also hear several compositions from Adam Gorb, who will take us on Safari and then safely through the Bermuda Triangle. John McCabe will provide drama as we go through the beautiful Canyons in America and we will also listen to Martin Ellerby's Paris Sketches.

It will be a truly memorable evening and a wonderful way to introduce children to music specifically written for Wind Orchestras. They'll be bouncing in their seats.

Tickets are free for families. To book your place please email cm@cambridgeshire.gov.uk with Around the World in the subject line.

Jacqueline Shave, Miranda Dale violin
Martin Outram viola
Caroline Dearnley cello
Emer McDonough flute
Joy Farrall clarinet
Huw Watkins piano
Helen Yates percussion

This opening concert in Britten Sinfonia’s lunchtime series focuses on the chamber music of pioneering composer, Harrison Birtwistle, who celebrates his 75th birthday during 2009. Much of Birtwistle’s music has been influenced by Medieval and Renaissance masters. In this performance each contemporary work is juxtaposed by a work by either Bach or a composer of the Middle Ages. Britten Sinfonia will also perform a new work by emerging composer Christian Mason.

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Britten Sinfonia’s acclaimed cycle of Beethoven Concertos with Imogen Cooper, which has received glowing reviews and audience praise, comes to its grand finale this season. Imogen performs and directs the orchestra in the majestic and noble ‘Emperor’ concerto. The first half of the programme provides an eloquent contrast with one of the finest and most spirited works of Mozart’s early career, and a major work by on of the 20th century’s greatest composers, Luciano Berio.

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Following the 2008 sell-out tour of Messiah, Polyphony once again join Britten Sinfonia for Esenvalds’ powerful yet subtle Passion and Resurrection which tells the story of Christ’s suffering and rebirth. This Easter concert also features one of the best known of Bach’s works, the Double Violin Concerto and Arvo Pärt’s work for string orchestra and bell written to mourn the death of Benjamin Britten.

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A programme of music from both sides of the Atlantic that delves into the subtle and rich sonorities of strings and voice. This concert offers a rare opportunity to hear celebrated tenor, Mark Padmore paired with the exuberant and imaginative violinist Pekka Kuusisto in a new work by Nico Muhly. A protégé of Philip Glass, Nico Muhly is gaining a reputation as being one of the most impressive innovators of new music, effortlessly crossing the boundaries between classical and pop.

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Following their acclaimed collaboration at Aldeburgh Festival in 2008 the partnership between Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Britten Sinfonia continues with this performance featuring Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 14. The rest of the programme focuses on the works of Haydn and Elliott Carter. Regarded as a key figure in the new music world and with a peerless reputation as a pianist of formidable technical mastery in repertoire of the past, Pierre-Laurent Aimard will shed light on these two composers and their skill in creating contrapuntal lines of balance and clarity.

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A celebratory concert that features works by composers who all have significant anniversaries during 2009 including Handel, Martinů, Mendelssohn and Haydn. The opening fanfare-like Overture from Purcell heralds Handel’s majestic and exquisite Concerto Grosso in F major. Martinu’s distinct 20th century neo-classical style blends seamlessly with Haydn’s lesser-known and exultant Symphony No. 70 in D major and Mendelssohn’s lyrically poignant overture to The Fair Melusina. The orchestra will be conducted for the first time by Christopher Hogwood, a leading expert in classical repertoire and one of the finest exponents of Martinů’s music.

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A Saturday afternoon Classical Guitar Concert of Music from Latin America.
Featuring Venezuelan Waltzes by Antonio Lauro, music by Brazil's Pernambuco, Cuba's Leo Brouwer, and Argentina's Julio Sagreras.
The concert also includes the famous tunes 'La Paloma', 'El Condor el Pasa', and 'The Mexican Hat Dance'. Played by guitarist Tim Christmas.
The medieval Michaelhouse is in the centre of Cambridge near the market square and provides an intimate setting for the guitar.
Tickets £8 at the door.
Doors open 2.45pm, and the concert ends at 4pm.
Michaelhouse, Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1SU
www.michaelhouse.org.uk