Diary

Purcell (arr. Britten): Chacony for Strings in G minor Boccherini: String Quintet in G minor, G. 351 Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956 Pierre Doumenge, cello

Mendelssohn – String Quartet in F minor, Op.80
Ravel – String Quartet in F
Brahms -String Quartet in A minor, Op.51 No.2

Mendelssohn – String Quartet in F minor, Op 80
Ravel – String Quartet in F major
Brahms – String Quartet in A minor, Op.51, no.2

Beethoven – String Quartet in F minor, Op.95 ‘Serioso’
Britten – Three Divertimenti
Mendelssohn – String Quartet in F minor, Op.80

Bridge – Three Idylls
Ravel – Quartet in F Major
Webern – Langsamer Satz
Mendelssohn – Quartet in F minor, Op.80

Jacques Cohen – ‘From Behind Glass’ (Piatti Quartet commission)
Debussy – Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10

Bridge – Three Idylls
Richard Reason – Dylan Thomas Song Cycle (Premiere Performance)
Debussy – Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10

Aidan Smith, baritone

Bridge – Three Idylls
Debussy – Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Beethoven – Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, no. 2, ‘Razumovsky’

Mendelssohn – Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
Beethoven – Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 ‘Serioso’
Debussy – Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10

Beethoven – Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 ‘Serioso’
Mendelssohn – Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
Debussy – Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10

Vaughan-Williams: ‘On Wenlock Edge’

Tenor: Ian Bostridge

Piano: Julius Drake

Haydn: String Quartet in C Op.33 No.3 ‘The Bird’

Beethoven: Op.95 in F minor, ‘Serioso’

Ravel: String Quartet in F major

Haydn: Op.33 No.3 ‘The Bird’

Beethoven: Op.95 in F minor, ‘Serioso’

Brahms: String Quartet Op.51 No.1 in C minor

Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op 33, No. 3, ‘The Bird’

World premiere of Jacques Cohen: ‘From Behind Glass’

Britten: Three Divertimenti

Brahms: Quartet in C Minor, Op 51, No. 1

The Kirker Ischia Music Festival: Over the past eleven years Kirker have presented a series of high-level concerts on the beautiful island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples with some of the world’s most distinguished chamber musicians, pianists and singers. All six concerts are held in the concert hall at La Mortella, next to the study where Sir William Walton composed. The hall is reached via the glorious garden at La Mortella which was created by Lady Walton over many years and is now universally recognised as one of the world’s great gardens.

Beethoven: Op.95, ‘Serioso’

Hawkins: Fuzon

Ravel: Quartet in F major

The Mad Hatter Pub,43 Iffley Rd, Oxford OX4 1EA, UK

Schoenberg: String Quartet No.2

Guest artist: Raphaela Papadakis (Soprano)

Brahms: String Sextet No.2, Op.36 in G major

Zemlinsky: Song for soprano and string sextet, Maiblumen blühten überall

Guest cellist: Guy Johnston

Guest soprano: Raphaela Papadakis

Haydn Op.33, No.3, ‘The Bird’

Ravel: String Quartet in F major

Brahms: String Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.51

Haydn: Op.20 No.2 in C

Britten: 3 Divertimenti

Brahms: String Quartet No.2 in A minor

Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, Op.95, ‘Serioso’

Lucien Durosoir: Quartet No.3 in B minor

Walton: Quartet in A minor

Haydn: String Quintet in G, Hob.2

Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor

Performers also include Carole Presland (piano) and Simon Rowland-Jones (viola). Luis Gomes (tenor) will also be performing in this concert.

Walton: Passacaglia for solo cello

Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello

Brahms: String Quartet No.2 in A minor

Carole Presland will also be performing works by Liszt