Cheltenham Music Society
Cheltenham Music Society Programme 09/10
As usual our 2009/2010 programme is founded on the string quartet. Two ensembles of international repute will be playing for us for the first time, the Royal Quartet from Poland and the Dominant Quartet from Russia. The Jerusalem and Maggini Quartets return, having both been very well received in previous seasons. The mainstream repertoire will be well represented - Mozart, Beethoven, Bartok - alongside a variety of established works plus a couple that will probably be new to most of us. The Fujita sisters’ piano trio is very popular with music societies around the country and, unusually, they play from memory. Appropriately for Cheltenham, Court Lane Music will give a concert showcasing the chamber music of Imogen Holst. Their recent cd of her music is well worth listening to. Armonico Consort’s unaccompanied vocal programme is entitled ’The Glory of old England‘, and consists of a beautiful combination of 16th century sacred works and a number of more light-hearted secular pieces from the last 500 years. Finally, after Easter, the celebrated blind French pianist Bernard d’Ascoli will perform a programme of romantic piano music featuring Chopin, for which he is justly renowned. (And if you are wondering about the Takacs, they are pencilled in for November 2010.)
Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts
This 2009/2010 season we are proud to present another series of chamber music concerts, the Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts. These are given by some of the finest ensembles, instrumentalists and singers in the world. They feature both young, rising stars, and established musicians including Maggini Quartet, the Jerusalem Quartet and the Royal Quartet (An outstanding young Polish quartet).