Maxwell Quartet

Monday 9th December @ 7.45pm

"The joy of playing together is palpable, the complicity is eloquent, the momentum is incessant .... chamber music which will delight fans of the genre."  LIVraisons

Haydn String Quartet in F Op74 No2

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Roukens 'Visions at Sea'

Scottish Traditional Music

Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op130

First prizewinner and Audience Prizewinner at the 9th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in 2017, the Maxwell Quartet is now firmly regarded as one of Britian's finest young string quartets.

Nash Ensemble

with Victoria Simmonds and Alasdair Beatson

Monday 27th January @7.45pm

Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K478

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David Matthews 'White Flame' -  a setting of 5 Muriel Spark poems for mezzo-soprano, piano and string quartet

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Brahms Two songs Op 91 for voice, viola and piano

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Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat op 44

Alasdair Beatson

A special coda to the Muriel Spark centenary with the first performance in Scotland of White Flame, David Matthews' setting of  5 Muriel Spark poems, .  This will be framed by a hallmark Nash ensemble selection from some of the best-loved works in the chamber repertory.

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Preceded at 6.30 pm by a talk by David Matthews and Alan Taylor, President of the Muriel Spark Society, on the work commissioned by the Society to celebrate her writings.

Victoria Simmonds

Pavel Kolesnikov

Monday 24th February 2020 @ 7.45pm

Liszt:

Wilde Jagd from Etudes d'execution transcendante

La Cloche Sonne, S 238

Vision from Etudes d'Execution transcendante

Wiegenlied, S 198

Beethoven: Sonata Op. 31/2 The Tempest

Scriabin:

Prelude Op 48/2 

Prelude Op 22/3 

Danse Languide Op 51/4 

Prelude Op 22/4 

Poeme Aile Op 51/3 

Mazurka Op 3/9 

Prelude Op 11/13 

Schubert: Sonata in C minor, D958

A rare chance to experience the exceptional talents of this internationally acclaimed young pianist who has won plaudits for his "intelligent programming and outstanding pianism"

"Very few pianists of Kolesnikov's generation share his abundance of intelligence, sensitivity, musicality, imagination and sheer instrumental mastery"  Gramophone

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"Here is a true poet of the keyboard"  The Guardian