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SUMMARY:Robert Cohen and Dina Duisen -  Song and Sonata for Cello and Piano
DESCRIPTION:Artists: Robert Cohen (cello) and Dina Duisen (piano) \nConcert Sponsor: Don and Betty Frampton \nProgramme\n\nLudwig van Beethoven – Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major\, Op. 69\nGabriel Fauré – Après un Rêve; Papillon; Élégie\nInterval\nJohannes Brahms – Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major\, Op. 99\n\nAbout the Concert\nnadsa opens its 2026–2027 season on Sunday 27 September with one of the foremost cellists of our age. Robert Cohen will perform with his recital partner since 2023\, Kazakh-British pianist Dina Duisen\, making her fourth appearance with nadsa. The afternoon pairs two towering cello sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms with a group of Fauré’s most cherished miniatures. A programme of conversation and contrast\, it ranges from Classical poise to autumnal Romantic warmth. \nFrom Classical Dialogue to Romantic Fire\nThe afternoon opens with Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major\, composed in 1807–08 during his heroic middle period. It was the first cello sonata to treat the two instruments as genuine equals\, and it announces that intent at once: the cello sings the opening theme entirely unaccompanied. There follows a set of Fauré’s best-loved short pieces. Après un Rêve\, originally a song from the 1870s\, unfolds as a long\, yearning melodic line; the gentle Papillon flutters with salon charm; and the Élégie of 1880 is an intensely lyrical lament\, one of the most loved of all cello works. \nAfter the interval comes Brahms’s Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major\, written in the summer of 1886 during a fertile holiday beside Lake Thun and dedicated to the cellist Robert Hausmann. Passionate and expansive\, with bold tremolo writing and a slow movement of rare tenderness\, it is Brahms at his most ardent. The critic Eduard Hanslick wrote that in this music “passion rules\, fiery to the point of vehemence.” \nAbout the Artists\nRobert Cohen has enjoyed a distinguished international career spanning more than four decades\, performing with many of the world’s leading conductors and chamber ensembles. He made his concerto debut at the Royal Festival Hall at the age of twelve and his recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto\, made when he was nineteen\, earned a silver disc. He has recorded for EMI\, Deutsche Grammophon\, Sony\, BIS\, Decca and others\, and is William Pleeth Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music. The Guardian has written that Cohen “can hold any audience in the palm of his hand.” \nDina Duisen brings warmth and versatility to the piano partnership. Born in Almaty into a family of musicians and resident in London since 2002\, she gained her Master of Arts with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music\, where she now works alongside the Royal College of Music. Her solo album Mazurkas from Chopin to Adès was recorded with Grammy-winning producer Andrew Keener. In 2023 she founded her annual chamber-music festival “Dina & Friends” at the 1901 Arts Club in London. This is her fourth appearance at nadsa. \nWhy You Shouldn’t Miss This\nThis is chamber music of the highest order: two great cello sonatas framing a garland of Fauré’s most affecting writing\, performed by an artist at the height of his powers and a pianist of real distinction.
URL:https://nadsa.co.uk/event/robert-cohen-and-dina-duisen/
LOCATION:The Courtenay Centre\, Kingsteignton Road\, Newton Abbot\, Devon\, TQ12 2QA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Ensemble Mirage -  An Afternoon of Autumnal Clarinet Colours
DESCRIPTION:Artists: Ensemble Mirage (clarinet and string quartet) – Matthew Scott (clarinet)\, Michael Newman (cello)\, Rosemary Hinton (violin)\, Emily Pond (viola) and Alexandra Lomeiko (violin) \nConcert Sponsor: Keith Stokes-Smith \nProgramme\n\nJohannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor\, Op. 115\nPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Takemitsu) – Herbstlied (Autumn Song)\nInterval\nHerbert Howells – Rhapsodic Quintet\, Op. 31\nJean Françaix – Clarinet Quintet\n\nAbout the Concert\nOn Sunday 22 November\, Ensemble Mirage brings music for clarinet and string quartet to nadsa for the first time in 30 years. At its heart stands Brahms’s autumnal masterpiece\, the Clarinet Quintet in B minor\, partnered by an English gem from Herbert Howells\, the witty French elegance of Jean Françaix\, and a haunting miniature by Tchaikovsky arranged by Toru Takemitsu. It is a programme that places the well-loved alongside the unjustly neglected: the speciality of this enterprising ensemble. \nFour Voices for Clarinet and Strings\nThe afternoon opens with Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet\, written in the summer of 1891 for the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld\, whose playing drew the composer out of a brief retirement. Valedictory and elegiac\, it is among the supreme achievements of his final years\, glowing with warmth and quiet regret. It received its first private performance that November in Meiningen\, with Mühlfeld and the Joachim Quartet. The first half then closes with Takemitsu’s gentle arrangement for clarinet and strings of Tchaikovsky’s Autumn Song\, the October piece from The Seasons\, premiered in this guise in 1993. \nAfter the interval comes Howells’s Rhapsodic Quintet of 1919\, a single flowing movement of mystic\, song-like beauty written in the aftermath of the First World War\, and one of the finest English chamber works of its time. The programme closes with the Clarinet Quintet by Jean Françaix\, composed in 1977 in his inimitable French style: elegant\, neoclassical and brimming with wit. \nAbout the Ensemble\nEnsemble Mirage is a dynamic flexi-ensemble focusing on the fantastic range of mixed wind\, string and piano chamber music. From trios to octets\, this small group of dedicated\, passionate and award-winning musicians aims to expand the standard chamber repertoire\, bringing to light many often overlooked works\, with each programme focusing on a particular instrumental combination and presenting the well-known alongside the more rarely heard. They are Making Music Recommended Artists and finalists in the Mixed Chamber category of the 66th Royal Over-Seas League competition; they were also St John’s Smith Square Young Artists and held an Aldeburgh Chamber Music Residency. The ensemble evolved from Trio Mirage\, Royal Academy of Music Chamber Fellows and Harold Craxton Prize winners\, growing to explore this larger repertoire. \nWhy You Shouldn’t Miss This\nConcerts for clarinet quintets are a rarity. Few combinations in chamber music are as beguiling\, and especially in nadsa’s intimate setting. This carefully curated programme showcases the range of the ensemble’s expression – from Brahms’s late tenderness to the sparkle of Françaix.
URL:https://nadsa.co.uk/event/ensemble-mirage/
LOCATION:The Courtenay Centre\, Kingsteignton Road\, Newton Abbot\, Devon\, TQ12 2QA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Buck Brass -  Four Centuries of Brass Brilliance
DESCRIPTION:Artists: Buck Brass (brass quartet) – Katie Lodge (trumpet)\, Timothy Ellis (french horn)\, Frances Leith (french horn) and Richard Buck (trombone) \nConcert Sponsor: Sylvia Edge \nProgramme Includes\n\nImogen Holst – Leiston Suite\nJoseph Haydn – Trio in A major\, Hob. XI:5\nFrancis Poulenc – Sonata for Horn\, Trumpet and Trombone\nInterval\nFlorence Price – Adoration\nSteven Verhelst – Be Be Three\nTraditional (arr. Richard Buck) – Amazing Grace\n\nAbout the Concert\nThe new year brings a change of colour to nadsa as Buck Brass\, one of the United Kingdom’s foremost brass chamber ensembles\, arrives on Sunday 24 January. Known for its thoughtful programming and technical precision\, the group ranges across four centuries in a single afternoon\, bringing Haydn and an English suite by Imogen Holst as well as the irreverent wit of Poulenc\, the warmth of Florence Price and a much-loved hymn in the ensemble’s own arrangement. It is a vivid showcase for the brilliance and variety of brass chamber music. \nFour Centuries in Brass\nThe programme opens with Imogen Holst’s Leiston Suite\, written in 1967 for a Suffolk school brass group while she was working alongside Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh. Its short movements draw on Renaissance and English folk-dance idioms. Haydn’s Trio in A major follows: one of the many trios he composed for the music-loving Prince Nikolaus Esterházy\, heard here in brass guise. The first half closes with a cornerstone of the repertoire\, Poulenc’s Sonata for Horn\, Trumpet and Trombone of 1922\, by turns brilliant\, lyrical and mischievous. \nAfter the interval comes Florence Price’s Adoration: a tender\, song-like piece from 1951 by the pioneering American composer\, originally written for organ. A contemporary work by the Belgian composer Steven Verhelst\, a leading voice in today’s brass writing\, leads to a heartfelt close – the traditional hymn Amazing Grace in an arrangement by the ensemble’s own Richard Buck. \nAbout the Ensemble\nBuck Brass is among the United Kingdom’s leading brass chamber ensembles. It was founded in 2013 by graduates of the Royal Academy of Music and is celebrated for its thoughtful programming\, technical precision and contribution to the brass repertoire. Dedicated to broadening the scope of brass chamber music\, the ensemble champions both original compositions and transcriptions\, and has expanded the repertoire further by commissioning new works. Its imaginative\, wide-ranging programmes have established it as a distinctive presence on the British chamber-music scene. \nWhy You Shouldn’t Miss This\n\nBrass chamber music is one of the great pleasures of the concert hall\, full of brilliance\, intimacy and surprise. Buck Brass presents it with flair and imagination. Whether you are a seasoned concertgoer or discovering this repertoire for the first time\, this is an afternoon of warmth and virtuosity to brighten the depths of winter.
URL:https://nadsa.co.uk/event/buck-brass/
LOCATION:The Courtenay Centre\, Kingsteignton Road\, Newton Abbot\, Devon\, TQ12 2QA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Barbican Quartet - Three Worlds of the String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Artists: Barbican Quartet (string quartet) – Amarins Wierdsma (Violin)\, Kate Maloney (Violin)\, Christoph Slenczka (Viola) and Yoanna Prodanova (Cello) \nConcert Sponsor: Ruth & Peter Lowe \nProgramme\n\nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet in D major\, K 575\nAlexander Zemlinsky – String Quartet No. 2\, Op. 15\nInterval\nLudwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in C major\, Op. 59 No. 3\, “Razumovsky”\n\nAbout the Concert\nOn Sunday 21 March\, the prizewinning Barbican Quartet make their eagerly anticipated return to nadsa. Winners of First Prize at the 2022 ARD International Music Competition in Munich\, this is a quartet renowned for its distinctive sound and deeply personal interpretations. Their programme spans more than a century. It opens with the elegance of Mozart’s late “Prussian” quartet\, continues with the searching intensity of Zemlinsky and finishes with one of Beethoven’s boldest and most exhilarating works\, the third of the Razumovsky quartets. \nA Journey Across the String Quartet\nThe afternoon opens with Mozart’s String Quartet in D major\, K 575\, composed in 1789 and the first of the three “Prussian” quartets\, among the last he completed. Written with the cello-playing King of Prussia in mind\, it gives the cello unusual prominence and shares its graceful\, song-like material democratically among all four players. There follows Zemlinsky’s String Quartet No. 2\, a large and harmonically adventurous work of 1913 to 1915\, cast as a single continuous span. Bound up with the personal crises surrounding his circle\, including his brother-in-law Arnold Schoenberg\, it is music of extraordinary emotional pressure and ambition. \nAfter the interval comes Beethoven’s String Quartet in C major\, Op. 59 No. 3\, the last of the three quartets composed in 1806 for the Russian ambassador Count Razumovsky\, and a landmark of his middle period. From its mysterious\, harmonically veiled introduction it bursts into brilliant life\, culminating in a headlong fugal finale of near-perpetual motion that drives the music to a thrilling close. \nAbout the Ensemble\nThe Barbican Quartet is a distinctive presence on the international chamber-music scene\, renowned for its unique sound and deeply personal interpretations of repertoire spanning four centuries. Formed in 2014 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London\, the quartet won First Prize and several special awards at the 2022 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Previous successes include prizes at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in 2022 and the Joseph Joachim International Chamber Music Competition in 2019. Their debut album\, Manifesto on Love\, was released in 2024. \nWhy You Shouldn’t Miss This\n\nThis is chamber music of the highest order performed by one of the most exciting and internationally acclaimed young quartets. From Mozart’s poise to Beethoven’s daring\, by way of Zemlinsky’s heady late-Romantic world\, it is a programme that rewards the connoisseur and newcomer alike.
URL:https://nadsa.co.uk/event/barbican-quartet/
LOCATION:The Courtenay Centre\, Kingsteignton Road\, Newton Abbot\, Devon\, TQ12 2QA\, United Kingdom
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