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71st SEASON
The BMS presents the world's finest chamber music, played
by artists of national and international reputation, for
under £4.00 per concert.
Our concerts are held in a modern, comfortable concert hall
well-suited to the intimate atmosphere needed for this
music.
The hall has 330 fixed seats, but more are provided as
needed. The bar area has space for socialising and is open
from 7.30 p.m. Coffee and drinks are available during the
interval.
The BMS is not just an organisation promoting concerts,
but a society with a large and friendly membership. For a
£22.00 season ticket, subscribers are offered not only six
concerts for less than the price of four, but a place in the
society and an opportunity to participate in its decisions
and social gatherings.
Subscribe NOW and join us for the first concert on Thurs-
day, 10th October.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT CONCERTS AT THE
SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
"A year of suberb music making by the University..."
Yorkshire Post
The Department of Music of the University promotes a
series of public concerts, every Wednesday at 8 p.m.,
during term time. Top international names feature along-
side accomplished University ensembles which include
the Choir and Chamber Choir, two Orchestras, the Big
Band - 30 strong, the Gamelan orchestra and a New Music
Group.
Amongst this season's highlights are visits from The King's
Singers, the pianist Fou Ts'ong and the early music special-
ists Purcell Simfony, as well as performances of
Kindertotenlieder by Mahler, Symphony No.5 by Nielsen
and Brahms' German Requiem.
For a free brochure giving full details of these concerts and
the Central Hall Orchestral Series, contact the Box Office,
Department of Music, University of York, York, YO1 5DD,
Tel. 0904 432439/432447.
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BMS
CONCERT SEASON
1991/92
BMS
YORK
THURSDAYS
AT THE
LYONS
THE SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Presented by the British Music Society of York
in association with the Department of Music,
University of York.
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Thursday, 10 October 1991 at 8 p.m.
ENGLISH SERENATA
Guy Woolfenden (conductor)
Sextet for piano and wind
Sextet for piano and wind
Serenade for 13 wind instruments
Thuille
Martinu
Mozart
The English Serenata was formed in 1983, originally
as a wind ensemble. It has strong links with the Royal
Shakespeare Company, and often works with actors
in programmes that are a fast-moving blend of words
and music. Their concert for us, in this bicentenary
year, is based around Mozart's much-loved Ser-
enade, in B flat for 13 wind instruments.
Tuesday, 19 November 1991 at 8 p.m.
ARTUR PIZARRO (piano)
F minor Variations
Sonata in D, Op.28 (Pastoral)
Pour le piano
Sonata No.6 in A, Op.82
Please note this concert is on a TUESDAY
Haydn
Beethoven
Debussy
Prokofiev
The Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro, a pupil of
Sequeira Costa, has been in great demand since he
won the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competi-
tion. His programme gives us ample scope to savour
the combination of remarkable technique and great
interpretative sensitivity which won him the judges'
unanimous vote.
Thursday, 12 December 1991 at 8 p.m.
PAUL CASSIDY (viola)
SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano)
JULIAN JACOBSEN (piano)
Lachrymae
4 Pieces
Variations
Sonata movement
Zigeunerlieder
Songs with viola and piano
3 Songs with viola and piano
2 Songs with viola and piano
Britten
Bridge
Hugh Wood
Brahms
Brahms
Rubbra
Bridge
Brahms
The return of Paul Cassidy, viola player of the Brodsky
Quartet, allows us to hear Brahms' sumptuous and
rare Op.91 Songs with viola obbligato. Brahms, the
viola and songs - these form, with major 20th-century
English composers, the themes of this many-layered
programme.
Thursday, 9 January 1992 at 8 p.m.
SARAH BRIGGS (piano)
Sonata in C minor, Op.13
(Pathétique)
Sonata in E, Op.14 No.1
Sonata in E minor, Op.90
3 Character Pieces
2 Arabesques
Barcarolle
Ballade No.4 in F minor
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Britten
Debuss
Chopin
Chopin
Concert supported by Yorkshire Arts
Sarah Briggs needs no introduction to York audi-
ences. Though still not 20, she has had a remarkable
series of European successes, including the joint first
prize at the International Mozart Competition in
Salzburg in 1988.
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• Thursday, 6 February 1992 at 8
KREUTZER STRING QUARTET
Peter Sheppard & Clio Gould (violins)
Philip Dukes (viola) Philip Sheppard ('cello)
Quartet in G, Op.64 No.4
Quartet No.14, Op.142
Quartet in F minor, Op.95
p.m.
Haydn ✓
Shostakovich
Beethoven
The Kreutzer Quartet was formed in 1987 and made
its London debut in 1989 to ecstatic reviews. Their
programme includes a dark-hued late masterpiece
by Shostakovich as well as the work Beethoven him-
self named Serious Quartet.
• Thursday, 12 March 1992 at 8 p.m.
GAINSBOROUGH STRING QUARTET
Elizabeth Wilcock & Margaret Faultless (violins)
Nicola Logie (viola) Timothy Mason ('cello)
Quartet in D, Op.71 No.2
Quartet in G, Op.64 No.4
Quartet in C, K.465 (Dissonance)
Haydn
Haydn
Mozart
Concert supported by Yorkshire Arts
The Gainsborough Quartet, founded in 1983, is one
of this country's leading groups using authentic
instruments and playing techniques to perform works
of the classical repertory. Their recording of the
Mozart piano quartets with Malcolm Bilson was
chosen by Hi-Fi News as record of the month.
We have prevailed on both the Kreutzer and
Gainsborough Quartets to include the same Haydn
Quartet in their programmes, to compare more di-
rectly the "modern" and "period" approaches.
BOOKING DETAILS
Adults
Students & under 18s
Youth & Music Stage Pass
Special rates for groups of 10 or more. For more details, please
write to Mr J. Briggs (address on Booking Form below).
PLEASE SEND ME:
Season and single tickets may be purchased NOW by using the
Booking Form below, or before each concert at the hall. Single
tickets are also available from Ticket World, 6 Patrick Pool, York,
YO1 2BB (Tel. York 644194).
BOOKING FORM
Cheques payable to "B.M.S."
Post with payment and S.A.E. to Mr. J. BRIGGS,
24 ELMLANDS GROVE, YORK, YO3 OEE.
Season Tickets
For more information about Youth & Music's Stage Pass scheme,
available to those aged between 14 and 30, write to Claire Wilson,
Youth & Music, Dean Clough Industrial Park Ltd., Halifax, HX3
5AX or phone 0422 345631.
Single Tickets
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Tickets
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THE BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY
OF YORK
The BMS is one of many similar voluntary organisations
throughout the country - 14 in Yorkshire alone - whose
prime purpose is to promote chamber music recitals by
musicians of the highest calibre.
The concerts have been described as "amongst the most
exciting contributions to the musical life of the city". Our
forthcoming concert season will be the 71st in unbroken
succession.
The quotations below are from reviews given in the York-
shire Post and Yorkshire Evening Press during our 70th
season.
Brodsky String Quartet
"The mellowness, the drama and the bleakness of the
music found their way into this committed performance.
The British Music Society... has clearly a large and
discerning band of supporters." (Donald Webster, YP)
"... a sympathetic performance, handling the challenging
sonorities with delicacy and poise and deservedly gaining
considerable applause."
(Ralph Bateman, YEP)
Debussy Piano Trio
"... precise sharply-etched rhythms, fierce drama, power-
fully uplifting melodies and ravishing tone from violin
and cello."
(Donald Webster, YP)
Britten String Quartet
"But in Bartók's Fourth, the same approach was turned to
masterful advantage. There was an immediate electricity
here.... This was an exceptional performance, whose sheer
conviction will live in the memory."
(Martin Dreyer, YEP)
Allegri String Quartet
"... teasing spontaneity that spoke of an ensemble totally
at ease with itself. Love shone from every semiquaver of
the leader's roulades. And that is a quality decidedly rare
in the concert hall."
(Martin Dreyer, YEP)
Capricorn
"Capricorn's playing was dynamically contrasted, and
exquisite in its purity of tone and tuning"
(Donald Webster, YP)
BUS SERVICES
York City Bus No.9 provides a convenient service from
Clifton and the city centre, while No.21 provides a
service from the railway station.
CAR PARKS
Use Conference Car Parks Pc, Pd, Pe, as shown on the
map below.
HULL ROAD
University Road
BUS STOP
YORKSHIRE
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ENTRANCE)
Sir Jack Lyons
Concert Hall
Biology
50
50
100 yards
100 metres
Vanbrugh
Central
Hall
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AND FURTHER INFORMATION
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Please contact: Mr N J Dick, Hon. Secretary,BMS of York,
Clement House, 6 Bishopgate Street, York, YO2 1JH.
Tel. York 637984.
THE SOCIETY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO VARY THE
ARTISTS OR PROGRAMMES AS IT MAY FIND
NECESSARY.
City of York Leisure Services
ARTS
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OF MUSIC SOCIETIES
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BUS SERVICES
York City Bus No.9 provides a convenient service from
Clifton and the city centre, while No.21 provides a
service from the railway station.
CAR PARKS
Use Conference Car Parks Pc, Pd, Pe, as shown on the
map below.
HULL ROAD
University Road
YORKSHIRE
BUS STOP
↓
Pd
0
Sir Jack Lyons
Concert Hall
Biology
0
ENTRANCE
50 100 yards N
50 100 metres
Vanbrugh
Central
Hall
FACILITIES FOR THE DISABLED
AND FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact: Mr N J Dick, Hon. Secretary,BMS of York,
Clement House, 6 Bishopgate Street, York, YO2 1JH.
Tel. York 637984.
THE SOCIETY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO VARY THE
ARTISTS OR PROGRAMMES AS IT MAY FIND
NECESSARY.
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THE ENGLISH
SERENATA
BAS
YORK
THURSDAY 10th OCTOBER
8.00 p.m.
THE SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Presented by the British Music Society of York
in association with the Department of Music,
University of York.
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• Thursday, 10 October 1991 at 8 p.m.
ENGLISH SERENATA
Guy Woolfenden (conductor)
Sextet for piano and wind
Sextet for piano and wind
Serenade for 13 wind instruments
Thuille
Martinů
Mozart
The English Serenata was formed in 1983, originally
as a wind ensemble. It has strong links with the Royal
Shakespeare Company, and often works with actors
in programmes that are a fast-moving blend of words
and music. Their concert for us is based, in this
bicentenary year, around Mozart's much-loved Ser-
enade in B flat for 13 wind instruments in a new
edition published by June Emerson.
FUTURE CONCERTS
Tuesday, 19 November 1991 at 8 p.m.
ARTUR PIZARRO (piano)
Please note this concert is on a TUESDAY
● Thursday, 12 December 1991 at 8 p.m.
PAUL CASSIDY (viola)
SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano)
JULIAN JACOBSEN (piano)
Thursday, 9 January 1992 at 8 p.m.
SARAH BRIGGS (piano)
● Thursday, 6 February 1992 at 8 p.m.
KREUTZER STRING QUARTET
Thursday, 12 March 1992 at 8 p.m.
GAINSBOROUGH STRING QUARTET
BOOKING DETAILS
Adults
Students & under 18s
Youth & Music Stage Pass
Special rates for groups of 10 or more. For more details, please
write to Mr J. Briggs (address on Booking Form below).
PLEASE SEND ME:
Season and single tickets may be purchased NOW by using the
Booking Form below, or before each concert at the hall. Single
tickets are also available from Ticket World, 6 Patrick Pool, York,
YO1 2BB (Tel. York 644194).
BOOKING FORM
Cheques payable to "B.M.S."
Post with payment and S.A.E. to Mr. J. BRIGGS,
24 ELMLANDS GROVE, YORK, YO3 OEE.
Season Tickets
For more information about Youth & Music's Stage Pass scheme,
available to those aged between 14 and 30, write to Claire Wilson,
Youth & Music, Dean Clough Industrial Park Ltd., Halifax, HX3
5AX or phone 0422 345631.
Single Tickets
Single
Tickets
Name
£6.00
£3.00
£2.00
Address
Postcode
Date
Season Tickets
(six concerts)
£22.00
£11.00
£8.00
Quantity Price Total
Quantity Price
Tel. No.
Total
If applying for more than one season ticket, please give name of
each person, and address if different from above.
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BUS SERVICES
York City Bus No.9 provides a convenient service from
Clifton and the city centre, while No.21 provides a
service from the railway station.
CAR PARKS
Use Conference Car Parks Pc, Pd, Pe, as shown on the
map below.
HULL ROAD
University Road
BUS STOP
↓
YORKSHIRE
Pd
0
ENTRANCE
Sir Jack Lyons
Concert Hall
Biology
50
50
100 yards N
100 metres
Vanbrugh
Central
Hall
FACILITIES FOR THE DISABLED
AND FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact: Mr N J Dick, Hon. Secretary,BMS of York,
Clement House, 6 Bishopgate Street, York, YO2 1JH.
Tel. York 637984.
THE SOCIETY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO VARY THE
ARTISTS OR PROGRAMMES AS IT MAY FIND
NECESSARY.
City of York Leisure Services
ARTS
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OF MUSIC SOCIETIES
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ARTUR PIZARRO
(piano)
B'S
YORK
TUESDAY, 19th NOVEMBER
8.00 p.m.
THE SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Presented by the British Music Society of York
in association with the Department of Music,
University of York.
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Tuesday, 19 November 1991 at 8
ARTUR PIZARRO (piano)
Variations in F minor
Sonata in D, Op.28 (Pastoral)
Pour le piano
Sonata No.6 in A, Op.82
Haydn
Beethoven
Debussy
Prokofiev
p.m.
Please note this concert, unusually for the BMS,
takes place on a TUESDAY
The Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro, a pupil of
Sequeira Costa, has been in great demand since he
won the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competi-
tion. His programme gives us ample scope to savour
the combination of remarkable technique and great
interpretative sensitivity which won him the judges'
unanimous vote.
His programme for us contains one of Haydn's finest
keyboard works, together with the most forthright of
a set of three sonatas which date from 1939/44 and
unquestionably form Prokofiev's greatest achieve-
ment in the field of solo piano music.
FUTURE CONCERTS
● Thursday, 12 December 1991 at 8 p.m.
PAUL CASSIDY (viola)
SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano)
JULIAN JACOBSON (piano)
Thursday, 9 January 1992 at 8 p.m.
SARAH BRIGGS (piano)
● Thursday, 6 February 1992 at 8 p.m.
KREUTZER STRING QUARTET
Thursday, 12 March 1992 at 8 p.m.
GAINSBOROUGH STRING QUARTET
BOOKING DETAILS
Adults
Students & under 18s
Youth & Music Stage Pass
Special rates for groups of 10 or more. For more details, please
write to Mr J. Briggs (address on Booking Form below).
PLEASE SEND ME:
Season and single tickets may be purchased NOW by using the
Booking Form below, or before each concert at the hall. Single
tickets are also available from Ticket World, 6 Patrick Pool, York,
YO1 2BB (Tel. York 644194).
BOOKING FORM
Cheques payable to "B.M.S."
Post with payment and S.A.E. to Mr. J. BRIGGS,
24 ELMLANDS GROVE, YORK, YO3 OEE.
Season Tickets
For more information about Youth & Music's Stage Pass scheme,
available to those aged between 14 and 30, write to Claire Wilson,
Youth & Music, Dean Clough Industrial Park Ltd., Halifax, HX3
5AX or phone 0422 345631.
Single Tickets
Single
Tickets
Name
£6.00
£3.00
£2.00
Address
Postcode
Date
Season Tickets
(six concerts)
£22.00
£11.00
£8.00
Quantity Price
Quantity Price
Tel. No.
Total
Total
If applying for more than one season ticket, please give name of
each person, and address if different from above.
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BUS SERVICES
York City Bus No.9 provides a convenient service from
Clifton and the city centre, while No.21 provides a
service from the railway station.
CAR PARKS
Use Conference Car Parks Pc, Pd, Pe, as shown on the
map below.
HULL ROAD
University Road
YORKSHIRE
BUS STOP
↓
Pd
0
Sir Jack Lyons
Concert Hall
Biology
0
ENTRANCE
50 100 yards
50 100 metres
(Pc)
Vanbrugh
Central
Hall
FACILITIES FOR THE DISABLED
AND FURTHER INFORMATION
N
JE
Please contact: Mr N J Dick, Hon. Secretary,BMS of York,
Clement House, 6 Bishopgate Street, York, YO2 1JH.
Tel. York 637984.
THE SOCIETY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO VARY THE
ARTISTS OR PROGRAMMES AS IT MAY FIND
NECESSARY.
City of York Leisure Services
ARTS
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OF MUSIC SOCIETIES
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PAUL CASSIDY
SUSAN KESSLER
JULIAN JACOBSON
BMS
YORK
THURSDAY, 12th DECEMBER
8.00 p.m.
THE SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Presented by the British Music Society of York
in association with the Department of Music,
University of York.
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Thursday, 12 December 1991 at 8 p.m.
PAUL CASSIDY (viola)
SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano)
JULIAN JACOBSON (piano)
Britten
Bridge
Hugh Wood
Brahms/Cassidy
Lachrymae
4 Pieces
Variations
Sonata movement
Zigeunerlieder
Songs with viola and piano
3 Songs with viola and piano
2 Songs with viola and piano
Brahms
Rubbra
Bridge
Brahms
Paul Cassidy, born in Derry, is the viola-player of the
Brodsky Quartet, whose memorable performance of
Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet opened our
1990/91 season.
Susan Kessler, from Australia, has given concerts
and recitals throughout Europe, but is a particular
favourite in Holland, where she has this year appeared
in Prokofiev's War and Peace and Handel's Theodora.
The English pianist Julian Jacobson made his London
debut in 1974, since when his unusual versatility as a
player has kept him in demand both nationally and
internationally.
Together, they perform Brahms' sumptuous Songs
Op.91, alongside music by Rubbra and Bridge for the
same rare combination. The programme also includes
works for viola and piano, amongst them one of
Benjamin Britten's finest chamber pieces, as well as
Brahms' ever-alluring Gipsy Songs, Op.103.
FUTURE CONCERTS
Thursday, 9 January 1992 at 8 p.m.
SARAH BRIGGS (piano)
Sonata in C minor, Op.13
(Pathétique)
Sonata in E, Op.14 No.1
Sonata in E minor, Op.90
3 Character Pieces
2 Arabesques
Barcarolle
Ballade No.4 in F minor
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Concert supported by Yorkshire Arts
Quartet in G, Op.64 No.4
Quartet No.14, Op.142
Quartet in F minor, Op.95
Britten
Debussy
Chopin
Chopin
Thursday, 6 February 1992 at 8 p.m.
KREUTZER STRING QUARTET
Peter Sheppard & Clio Gould (Violins)
Philip Dukes (viola) Philip Sheppard ('cello)
Haydn
Shostakovich
Beethoven
Quartet in D, Op.71 No.2
Quartet in G, Op.64 No.4
Quartet in C, K.465 (Dissonance)
Thursday, 12 March 1991 at 8 p.m.
GAINSBOROUGH STRING QUARTET
Elizabeth Wilcock & Margaret Faultless (violins)
Nicola Logie (viola) Timothy Mason ('cello)
Haydn
Haydn
Mozart
Concert supported by Yorkshire Arts
Ocr'd Text:
BUS SERVICES
York City Bus No.9 provides a convenient service from
Clifton and the city centre, while No.21 provides a
service from the railway station.
CAR PARKS
Use Conference Car Parks Pc, Pd, Pe, as shown on the
map below.
HULL ROAD
University Road
BUS STOP
Į
YORKSHIRE
0
ENTRANCE
Sir Jack Lyons
Concert Hall
Biology
50 100 yards N
100 metres
50
Vanbrugh
Central
Hall
FACILITIES FOR THE DISABLED
AND FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact: Mr N J Dick, Hon. Secretary,BMS of York,
Clement House, 6 Bishopgate Street, York, YO2 1JH.
Tel. York 637984.
THE SOCIETY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO VARY THE
ARTISTS OR PROGRAMMES AS IT MAY FIND
NECESSARY.
City of York Leisure Services
ARTS
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OF MUSIC SOCIETIES
NEMS
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SARAH BRIGGS
(piano)
BS
YORK
THURSDAY, 9th JANUARY
8.00 p.m.
THE SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Presented by the British Music Society of York
in association with the Department of Music,
University of York.
Ocr'd Text:
Thursday, 9 January 1992 at 8 p.m.
SARAH BRIGGS (piano)
Sonata in C minor, Op.13
(Pathetique)
Sonata in E, Op.14 No.1
Sonata in E minor, Op.9⁹0
3 Character Pieces
2 Arabesques
Barcarolle
Ballade No.4 in F minor
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Britten
Debussy
Chopin
Chopin
Concert supported by Yorkshire Arts
Sarah Briggs needs no introduction to York audi-
ences. Though still not 20, she has had a remarkable
series of European successes, including the joint first
prize at the International Mozart Competition in
Salzburg in 1988.
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Her recital for us contains a wide mixture of music,
from the gentle to the stormy, from the wrily humor-
ous to the intense, all of them suited to her musical
temperament.
Tickets £6.00 (Students £3.00; Youth & Music Stage Pass
£2.00) from Ticket World, 6 Patrick Pool, York (Tel. York
644194) or at the hall before the concert.
A single ticket for any concert may be exchanged for a
subscription ticket for the remainder of the season at a
considerable discount. This may be done at the Members
Desk in the lobby, either during the interval or immedi-
ately after the concert.
For more information about Youth & Music's Stage Pass
scheme, available to those aged between 14 and 30, write to
Claire Wilson, Youth & Music, Dean Clough Industrial
Park Ltd., Halifax, HX3 5AX or phone 0422 345631.
FUTURE CONCERTS
Thursday, 6 February 1992 at 8 p.m.
KREUTZER STRING QUARTET
Peter Sheppard & Clio Gould (Violins)
Philip Dukes (viola) Philip Sheppard ('cello)
Quartet in G, Op.64 No.4
Quartet No.14, Op.142
Quartet in F minor, Op.95
Haydn
Shostakovich
Beethoven
The Kreutzer Quartet was formed in 1987 and made
its London debut in 1989 to ecstatic reviews. Their
programme includes a dark-hued late masterpiece
by Shostakovich as well as the work Beethoven him-
self named Serious Quartet.
Thursday, 12 March 1991 at 8 p.m.
GAINSBOROUGH STRING QUARTET
Elizabeth Wilcock & Margaret Faultless (violins)
Nicola Logie (viola) Timothy Mason ('cello)
Quartet in D, Op.71 No.2
Quartet in G, Op.64 No.4
Quartet in C, K.465 (Dissonance)
Haydn
Haydn
Mozart
Concert supported by Yorkshire Arts
The Gainsborough Quartet, founded in 1983, is one
of this country's leading groups using authentic
instruments and playing techniques to perform works
of the classical repertory. Their recording of the
Mozart piano quartets with Malcolm Bilson was
chosen by Hi-Fi News as record of the month.
Ocr'd Text:
BUS SERVICES
York City Bus No.9 provides a convenient service from
Clifton and the city centre, while No.21 provides a
service from the railway station.
CAR PARKS
Use Conference Car Parks Pc, Pd, Pe, as shown on the
map below.
HULL ROAD
University Road
BUS STOP
Į
Pd
YORKSHIRE
0
ENTRANCE
Sir Jack Lyons
Concert Hall
Biology
50
50
100 yards
-
100 metres
Vanbrugh
Central
Hall
FACILITIES FOR THE DISABLED
AND FURTHER INFORMATION
N
Please contact: Mr N J Dick, Hon. Secretary,BMS of York,
Clement House, 6 Bishopgate Street, York, YO2 1JH.
Tel. York 637984.
THE SOCIETY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO VARY THE
ARTISTS OR PROGRAMMES AS IT MAY FIND
NECESSARY.
City of York Leisure Services
ARTS
NATIONAL FEDERATION
OF MUSIC SOCIETIES
NEMS
BMS 3/1/49 (6)
THE
KREUTZER
STRING QUARTET
BS
YORK
THURSDAY, 6th FEBRUARY
8.00 p.m.
THE SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Presented by the British Music Society of York
in association with the Department of Music,
University of York.
Ocr'd Text:
Thursday, 6 February 1992 at 8 p.m.
KREUTZER STRING QUARTET
Peter Sheppard & Clio Gould (violins)
Philip Dukes (viola) Philip Sheppard ('cello)
Quartet in G, Op.64 No.4
Quartet No.14, Op.142
Quartet in F minor, Op.95
Haydn ✓
Shostakovich ✓
Beethoven ✓
The Kreutzer Quartet was founded in 1987 and made
its London debut in 1989 to ecstatic reviews. The
Quartet was invited by Yehudi Menuhin to perform
at the 1988 conference of the Portsmouth String
Quartet competition, and they are closely involved
with his Live Music Now! scheme, as well as with the
Italian Festival of Tuscany and the Kings' Lynn
Festival. Already Hans Werner Henze and the British
composer Roger Steptoe have written works for them.
Their programme includes one of the brightest and
most open of Haydn's 12 Tost Quartets, a dark-hued,
ambivalent late masterpiece by Shostakovich and
the work Beethoven himself named Serious Quartet.
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LAST CONCERT
OF THE 71st SEASON
● Thursday, 12 March 1992 at 8 p.m.
GAINSBOROUGH STRING QUARTET
Elizabeth Wilcock & Margaret Faultless (violins)
Nicola Logie (viola) Timothy Mason ('cello)
Quartet in D, Op.71 No. 2
Quartet in G, Op.64 No. 4
Quartet in C, K.465 (Dissonance)
Haydn
Haydn
Mozart
Concert supported by Yorkshire Arts
The Gainsborough Quartet, founded in 1983, is one
of this country's leading groups using authentic
instruments and playing techniques to perform works
from the classical repertory. Their recording of the
Mozart piano quartets with Malcolm Bilson was
chosen by Hi-Fi News as record of the month.
We have prevailed on both the Kreutzer and
Gainsborough Quartets to include the same Haydn
Quartet in their programmes, to compare more
directly the "modern" and "period" approaches.
The Gainsborough also plays Mozart's delightful
and entertaining C major Quartet, K.465, misleadingly
nicknamed the Dissonance because of the daring
harmonies of its introductory bars.
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Thursday, 12 March 1992 at 8 p.m.
GAINSBOROUGH STRING QUARTET
Elizabeth Wilcock & Margaret Faultless (violins)
Nicola Logie (viola) Timothy Mason ('cello)
Quartet in D, Op.71 No.2
Quartet in G, Op.64 No.4
Quartet in C, K.465 (Dissonance)
Haydn
Haydn
Mozart
Concert supported by Yorkshire Arts
The Gainsborough Quartet, founded in 1983, is one
of this country's leading groups using authentic
instruments and playing techniques to perform works
from the classical repertory. Their recording of the
Mozart piano quartets with Malcolm Bilson was
chosen by Hi-Fi News as record of the month.
Their programme begins with two quartets by Haydn.
The D major Quartet, Op.71 No.2, was one of a set
written for Haydn's second visit to London and is
remarkable for its impressive scale and orchestral
sonorities. The G major Quartet, Op.64 No.4, is one of
the brightest and most open of Haydn's 12 so-called
"Tost" Quartets.
The Gainsborough also plays Mozart's delightful
and entertaining C major Quartet, K.465, misleadingly
nicknamed the Dissonance because of the daring
harmonies of its introductory bars.
Tickets £6.00 (Students £3.00; Youth & Music Stage Pass
£2.00) from Ticket World, 6 Patrick Pool, York (Tel. York
644194) or at the hall before the concert.
For more information about Youth & Music's Stage Pass
scheme, available to those aged between 14 and 30, write to
Claire Wilson, Youth & Music, Dean Clough Industrial
Park Ltd., Halifax, HX3 5AX or phone 0422 345631.
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Paul Cassidy (viola)
Susan Kessler (mezzo-soprano)
Julian Jacobson (piano)
Thursday, 12 December 1991
Programme: 30p
Presented by the British Music Society of York
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It was in 1918 that the colourful Dr Arthur Eaglefield Hull, organist of
Huddersfield Parish Church, writer and modern music enthusiast, founded
the British Music Society.
The new society was a national body whose aims were: to bring together
professional and amateur musicians, to promote British music and music-
ians, to develop the appreciation of music by means of lectures and
concerts, and to campaign for the recognition of the place of music in
education. The Society expanded quickly, with about forty regional
centres being established.
So unwieldy an organisation, though, was in constant financial difficulty
and, despite the generosity of patrons, went into liquidation in 1933. Yet
many of the regional centres remained viable and continued to function as
concert-giving societies.
The York centre of the original Society was opened in 1921, with an
inaugural concert given by the soprano Isobel Baillie, then in her debut
year. In 1933, when the parent society went into liquidation, the centre
reconstituted itself as an autonomous organisation under the name British
Music Society of York.
Since then the Society has continued to give an annual season of chamber
music concerts. The present season is the 71st in succession to be given
in York under the title British Music Society.
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BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY of YORK
71st Season
Thursday, 12 December 1991
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
PAUL CASSIDY (viola)
SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano)
JULIAN JACOBSON (piano)
Lachrymae for viola and piano, Op.48
4 Pieces for viola and piano
3 Songs (voice and piano)
3 Songs (voice, viola and piano)
INTERVAL
Variations for viola and piano, Op.1
Sonata movement for viola and piano
Zigeunerlieder
2 Songs, Op.91 (voice, viola and piano)
Britten
Bridge
Bridge
Bridge
Hugh Wood
Brahms arr. Cassidy
Brahms
Brahms
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THE ARTISTS
Paul Cassidy, born in Derry, is the viola-player of the Brodsky Quartet,
whose memorable performance of Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet
opened our 1990/91 Season.
Susan Kessler, from Australia, has given concerts and recitals throughout
Europe, but is a particular favourite in Holland, where she has this year
appeared in Prokofiev's War and Peace and Handel's Theodora.
The English pianist Julian Jacobson made his London debut in 1974, since
when his unusual versatility as a player has kept him in demand both
nationally and internationally.
PROGRAMME NOTES
Lachrymae: reflections on a song of Dowland
for viola and piano, Op.48
Benjamin Britten
(1913 1976)
Benjamin Britten's first musical studies were with his mother (piano) and
Audrey Alston (viola). The latter introduced him, at the 1928 Norwich
Festival, to her friend Frank Bridge, who gave the promising schoolboy
most of his grounding in composition:
In every thing he did for me there were perhaps above all two
cardinal principles. One was that you should try to find yourself
and be true to what you found. The other obviously connected
with it was his scrupulous attention to good technique, the
business of saying clearly what was in one's mind. He gave me a
sense of technical ambition.
Britten wrote Lachrymae in April 1950 for one of the great figures among
viola-players, William Primrose. Together they gave the first performance
that June at the third Aldeburgh Festival.
Lachrymae unites many threads in Britten's life: it is written for his own
two instruments, viola and piano, and meant for a colleague and for
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Aldeburgh. It also reflects Britten's interest in English music of the 16th
and 17th centuries.
John Dowland (1563 - 1626) was an English composer, lutenist and singer
famous for his melancholy streak. His most substantial instrumental work
is his 1604 Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, a collection of 21 pieces for five
viols and lute. The "seven tears" are seven pavans taking the form of
variations on his famous song Flow my Teares.
Britten's Lachrymae is based not on the Flow my Teares music, but on
another piece from the collection, Dowland's own instrumental version of
his song If my complaints could passions move. Britten does not quote the
melody of the song in full: the first half of it is heard in the bass of the
piano part a few bars into the atmospheric introduction. There follow ten
variations on this, the last leading into a coda where all the phrases of
the Dowland melody occur, though in the wrong order, followed by the
song's second half.
The words "introduction", "variation" and "coda" do not actually appear in
the score, but the structure of the piece can be tabulated as follows:
Introduction: Lento
Variations:
1 Allegretto molto comodo
2 Animato
3 Tranquillo
4 Allegro con moto
5 Largamente
Coda: Insensibilmente con più moto
6 Appassionato
7 Alla valse moderato
8 Allegro marcia
9 Lento
10 L'istesso tempo
4 Pieces for viola and piano
Allegretto
There is a willow grows aslant a brook
Pensiero
Allegro appassionato
Frank Bridge
(1879 1941)
Frank Bridge studied violin and composition at the Royal College of Music
around the turn of the century. When he left, he became a professional
violinist, but soon switched to the viola. The sensitivity of his musician-
ship quickly marked him out from other players of that cinderella of
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stringed instruments, and he worked in many chamber groups, most notably
the English String Quartet.
Although the viola was his principal instrument, he wrote little for it. He
completed only two pieces for viola and piano, compared to over a dozen
similar pieces for violin or cello. These were Pensiero [= thought] and
Allegro appassionato, which were published by Stainer & Bell in 1908 in
the series Viola Library, edited by Lionel Tertis.
Paul Hindmarsh, who has worked extensively on Bridge and produced a fine
thematic catalogue, describes Pensiero as "restrained, almost elegiac in
mood", while the B minor Allegro appassionato "is, in contrast, exuberant
and expansive".
The Allegretto with which Paul Cassidy opens his Bridge group was left
incomplete and only published in 1980 with a completion by Paul Hind-
marsh. There is a willow grows aslant a brook is related to Bridge's more
famous orchestral "Impressions" with the same name. The title is taken
from Hamlet: it opens the famous passage at the close of Act IV where
Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, describes how Ophelia, hanging garlands of
weeds on a willow tree, "fell in the weeping brook", and lay there awhile
singing snatches of song:
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
3 Songs (voice and piano)
Go not happy day
Come to me in my dreams
Love went a-riding
Bridge
Bridge wrote over 50 songs, some of which must rank with the best
English songs of his generation. All the six Bridge songs being heard
tonight date from before the First World War.
Go not, happy day is the earliest, dating from 1903. It sets words from
Tennyson's Maud likening the rose on the cheeks and mouth of the girl
being pursued to the colour of sunset. The song is interesting for the
cross-rhythms of its shimmering semiquaver accompaniment.
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Come to me in my dreams was composed in November 1906 to words by
Matthew Arnold. The poem's hopeless longing is heard most clearly in the
agitated middle section.
Love went a-riding, dated 5 May 1914, is one of Bridge's most popular
songs. Its fiery impetuosity matches Mary Coleridge's vision of Love
riding on the winged horse Pegasus.
3 Songs (voice, viola and piano)
Far, far from each other
Where is it that our soul doth go
Music when soft voices die
Bridge
These three songs seem to have been intended as a set: at any rate they
were composed and given their first performance together. Bridge wrote
them between November 1906 and January 1907, though Music when soft
voices die is based on an earlier version dated 11 November 1903 for high
voice, cello and piano.
The songs were first performed in public on 9 December 1908 at the
Broadwood Concert Rooms: they were sung by Bridge's sister-in-law, the
contralto Ivy Sinclair, with Audrey Alston (Britten's teacher) on viola and
Bridge himself making a rare public appearance at the piano.
Far, far from each other is the most ambitious of the group and sets
words by Matthew Arnold. It is a song of parting beginning "Far, far
from each other our spirits have flown,/And what heart knows another?
Ah! who knows his own?".
Where is it that our soul doth go? is one of several settings by Bridge of
an English translation of Heine, in this case by K.F. Kroeker. As the title
suggests, the poem poses the question what happens to the soul after
death.
Music when soft voices die sets a popular lyric by Shelley describing how
thoughts of the beloved will linger in the mind like remembered music,
fragrances, roses.
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Variations for viola and piano, Op.1
Introduction
Theme
Variations:
INTERVAL
I - Giocoso
II
III
IV
V
VI
Finale
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Inquieto
Furioso
Appassionato
Capriccioso
Meditazione
Hugh Wood
(b.1932)
This must really be called a student work since it was mainly written in
the Autumn of 1957 while I was still studying with lain Hamilton, to whom
it is dedicated. Later I was to have lessons with Mátyás Seiber: and he
made a crucial suggestion about re-writing the Finale, before I finally
finished the piece in July 1958. It was first performed in an SPNM
concert at Cheltenham in July 1959, by Cecil Aronowitz and Margaret
Kitchen, who together gave it its first broadcast performance in February
1961. Since then it has been broadcast and publicly performed by many
artists both in this country and in America.
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I knew at once that they were to show me the way forward for my music;
as, indeed, they have ever since. The revelation was primarily an
emotional experience for me, and however imperfectly their influence was
received, it is obviously enough reflected in the all-out chromaticism (new
for me then), in the many chains of twelve notes, or lesser chromatic
formations (which do not here amount to serial working, and have only
rarely done so since), in the characteristic harmonic and rhythmic
formations, the wide and sometimes angular intervals of the melodies and
in the general intensity and seriousness of what I suppose one could call a
rather introverted romanticism. Anyway, I knew then that this was the
sort of music that I henceforth would want to write, and so I called these
Variations my Opus One.
The declamatory Introduction leads into the Theme, heard on the viola.
Six Variations follow, of which No.3 is the most violent, and No.4 the
most sustainedly lyrical. The recitative-like sixth variation leads into the
Finale, a more extended movement. The Theme, returning on the piano,
leads to a climax at which there is a citation from Beethoven's C minor
Variations for piano (WoO 80). Then their characteristic sequence of
chords is heard on the piano as an accompaniment to the final statement
of my own theme on the viola in the closing bars of the work.
Sonata Movement, arranged for viola
and piano by Paul Cassidy
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Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)
In 1853 the 20-year-old Brahms was staying in Düsseldorf with the
Schumanns and had become friends with the older composer's pupil Albert
Dietrich. Schumann had the idea that the three of them should write a
"welcome home" sonata to mark the return of Joseph Joachim, at 22
already one of the great violinists of his day. Dietrich provided the first
movement, Brahms the Scherzo and Schumann himself the Intermezzo and
Finale: all were based on the notes FAE- a reference to Joachim's motto
"Frei aber einsam" [= free but solitary]. The Sonata was played privately
on 27 October 1853 by Joachim and Brahms: Joachim had to guess who had
written what, which he did without much difficulty.
What Joachim really thought of the work as a whole is not known, though
it is said he held on to the work and allowed only one of the movements
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to be published, Brahms' Scherzo in 1906.
If Schumann seemed a natural choice for the Intermezzo and Finale,
Brahms had already proved himself in the field of the scherzo, with the E
flat minor Scherzo for piano (Op.4) and the scherzos from the three piano
sonatas (Opp.1, 2 & 5) and the First Piano Trio (Op.8).
Paul Cassidy has adapted the Scherzo for viola and piano without changing
the original pitch, which is comparatively rare in transcribing violin music
for viola, and usually makes life more difficult for the player.
Zigeunerlieder, Op.103 (voice and piano)
In the 18th and 19th centuries Hungary was part of the Austrian Empire.
Haydn, let us remember, served a Hungarian princely family, the Ester-
hases. Something of a vogue developed for Hungarianisms in music. They
are detectable as early as Haydn and Mozart, but the real craze began in
the 1820s and becomes noticeable in works by Schubert and Weber. It
accounts for the Hungarian Rhapsodies of Liszt, the Hungarian Dances (and
finales) of Brahms and so on.
Brahms
Of course, material these composers called Hungarian was really Hun-
garian gipsy, and even then research by Bartók and his colleagues has
shown that this 19th-century Hungarian style was neither genuine
Hungarian folk-music nor authentic gipsy music, but more a gipsified
rendition of art music based on Hungarian folk idioms.
But, in a sense, its origin is immaterial. Brahms loved to use the style to
let his hair down, just as he also relaxed by writing waltzes. Some of his
most successful waltz music had been in the two sets of Liebesliederwalzer
[= love-song-waltzes], composed in 1869 and 1875 for a vocal quartet (or
choir) and piano duet. The Zigeunerlieder [= gipsy songs] were meant as a
sequel, 11 songs for vocal quartet and piano the only differences being
that the songs were now in and the piano accompaniment was for one
player only.
The Songs were taken from Zoltán Nagy's collection of 25 "Hungarian
Folksongs" with texts in German versions by Hugo Conrat. As Brahms
adapted them, you would be hard pressed to find any strong flavour either
of Hungarian or gipsy ancestry, so thoroughly is the musical material
assimilated.
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Brahms wrote the Zigeunerlieder in 1888 and a year later made a version
for single voice and piano, omitting Nos.8 - 10 to produce a set of eight
songs. All are short and their texts may be summarised as follows:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Hey gipsy, play the song of the faithless girl till you make me cry.
River Rima, hemmed in with lofty towers, let me stand on your
banks and for ever weep for my love.
My little one is at her loveliest when she teases and kisses me: the
good Lord made her just for me. My lover is at his best when he
folds me in his arms: the good Lord made him just for me.
Dear God, you know how often I have regretted the kiss I gave my
beloved. Regret may be bitter, but love is sweet, and I shall ever
be true.
The young man in spurs leads his blue-eyed girl in a csárdás,
whirling, shouting and leaping.
If boys couldn't visit their girls it would be the end of the world.
And the best place to go for a bride is Kecskemet!
Do you remember, my love, the promises you once made me? Do
not deceive or forsake me, and God's grace will shine on you.
Red clouds fill the evening sky, and my heart is filled with longing
for you, my love.
2 Songs, Op.91 (voice, viola and piano)
Gestillte Sehnsucht [= longing appeased]
Geistliches Wiegenlied [= holy cradle-song]
Brahms
20 years separate the composition of these two songs. Geistliches
Wiegenlied was composed in 1863 or 1864 for the Joachims. Joseph
Joachim, who played the viola as well as the violin, married in 1863 the
concert singer Amalie Weiss. They named their first child Johannes, after
Brahms, and he responded with a cradle-song setting a Spanish text.
Brahms personalised the song by letting the viola begin with the tune of
the medieval carol Josef, lieber Josef mein [= Joseph, my dear Joseph]: the
Virgin is asking her husband to help her rock the cradle of the baby
Jesus, but because of the name it could just as easily be Amalie addressing
Joachim.
Brahms was not really satisfied with the song, and it remained unpublished.
In 1884 he returned to it, revising it and adding another song for the
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same combination of contralto, viola and piano Gestillte Sehnsucht.
These two were published that same year, alongside two other sets, the 5
Songs, Op.94, and the 7 Songs, Op.95.
By this time, though, the Joachim marriage was in deep difficulty. Brahms
sided with Amalie, and in 1881 told Joachim he was both morally and
personally wrong in leaving her. The close friendship the two men had
enjoyed since the early 1850s was destroyed: there were attempts at
reconciliation, but at best their relationship was marred by tensions.
When the Op.91 Songs were published, Brahms insisted his publisher send
Amalie a copy of Geistliches Wiegenlied as there were hopes of a
reconciliation between the Joachims, but this came to nothing. Brahms
made further overtures to Joachim with such tempting peace offerings as
the Double Concerto (1887) and D minor Violin Sonata (1889), but the
friendship was never again unconstrained.
Gestillte Sehnsucht sets a text by Friedrich Rückert, which may be
condensed as follows:
The woods are golden in the evening sunlight; the winds are
whispering and the birds are singing the world to sleep. One day,
when my longing reaches out no more to the far horizon, I shall
fall asleep for ever, to the sound of their singing.
Geistliches Wiegenlied sets a Spanish text by Lope de Vega in a German
translation by Emanuel Geibel also used by Wolf in his Spanish Songbook.
In it, the Virgin Mary prays to the angels to stop the palm trees of
Bethlehem rustling in the wind, for fear they should wake her child,
soothed in sleep from the sorrows of the world.
Notes by David Mather, except for that on
Hugh Wood's Variations, which is by the
composer himself.
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FORTHCOMING CONCERTS
The remaining concerts of the 71st Season of the British Music Society,
presented in association with the Department of Music at the University,
are as follows. All the concerts take place on Thursdays in the Sir Jack
Lyons Concert Hall, beginning at 8.00 pm.
§ 9 January 1992
§
Sonata in C minor, Op.13 (Pathétique)
Sonata in E major, Op.14 No.1
Sonata in E minor, Op.90
3 Character Pieces
2 Arabesques
Barcarolle, Op.60
Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52
6 February 1992
Sarah Briggs (piano)
The Kreutzer String Quartet
Quartet in G major, Op.64 No.4
Quartet No.14, Op.142
Quartet in F minor, Op.95
12 March 1992
The Gainsborough String Quartet
Quartet in D major, Op.71 No.2
Quartet in G major, Op.64 No.4
Quartet in C major, K.465 (Dissonance)
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Britten
Debussy
Chopin
Chopin
Haydn
Shostakovich
Beethoven
Haydn
Haydn
Mozart
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BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY of YORK
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY
President
Dr Francis Jackson
Vice-President
Joan Whitworth
Are Chairman: David Mather
Home Hon. Treasurer: Jim Briggs
Hon. Asst. Treasurer:
John Petrie
Hon. Secretary: Nigel Dick
Hon. Programme Secretary: Brian & Rosalind Richards
Hon. Publicity Officer: Peter Marsden
NFMS Representative: Dr Richard Crossley
Hon. Auditor: Derek Winterbottom
Members of the Committee: Albert Ainsworth, Sue Bedford, Margherita
Biller, Barbara Fox, Rosemary Johnson, Dick Stanley, Derek Sutton and Dr
Mary Thomson.
BENEFACTORS AND PATRONS
The BMS manages to maintain the high standard of its concerts largely
through the generosity of its Benefactors and patrons. Without their
covenanted gifts to the Society, this evening's concert would not be taking
place.
Our Benefactors(§) and Patrons are as follows:
Mr A. Ainsworth
Mrs F. Andrews§
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THE KREUTZER
STRING QUARTET
Quartet in G major, Op.64 No.4
Quartet in F sharp major, Op.142
Quartet in F minor, Op.95
Haydn
Shostakovich
Beethoven
8.00 p.m. THURSDAY, 6th FEBRUARY
YORKSHIRE
THE SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Tickets: £6.00 (Students £3.00; Youth & Music Stage Pass £2.00)
from Ticket World, 6 Patrick Pool, York (York 644194)
or at the hall before the concert.
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in association with the Department of Music, University of York.
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THE GAINSBOROUGH
STRING QUARTET
Quartet in D major, Op.71 No. 2
Quartet in G major, Op. 64 No. 4
Quartet in C major, K.465 (Dissonance)
Concert supported by Yorkshire Arts
YORKSHIRE
8.00 p.m. THURSDAY, 12th MARCH
THE SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Haydn
Haydn
Mozart
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from Ticket World, 6 Patrick Pool, York (York 644194)
or at the hall before the concert.
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FRIDAY MARCH
The Yorkshire Evening Press
DISASTER turned to
triumph last night for the
British Music Society of York,
when the Lindsay String
Quartet parachuted in to the
rescue at less than a week's
notice, replacing the injury-
struck Gainsboroughs.
The Red Devils themselves
could
not have done a more
determined job. Indeed, the
Lindsay attacked Mozart's
K575 in D as if determined to
prove a point. They have not,
after all, been in York for
some time.
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Quartet comes to
rescue in style
While they sprang upon the
first movement like starving
tigers, they later produced
some quite extraordinary
rubato in the trio as if to
compensate for their tautness
elsewhere.
It was a style they largely
maintained for Beethoven's
first quartet in a minor key,
the dramatic Op 18 No 4 in C
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minor, to which it
was
altogether better suited. Here
there was barely suppressed
anger in the reiterated
downbeats of the opening and
more guilt than apology in
the second violin's balancing
theme in the major key.
Lindsay String Quartet; Sir
Jack Lyons Concert Hall,
A phantom walked through
the scherzo, with surreal
touches of night music of the
type Bartok later made his
own, while even the Hungar-
ian finale was more eerie
than earthy. It was an
extraordinary, at times.
bizarre, account, yet utterly
riveting.
Relaxation is not a term
that one easily applies to a
quartet whose leader seems
always about to leap out of his
chair (when his mouth is not
imitating a fish).
But the Debussy was a
calmer affair. After some
wonderfully Spanish
pizzicato, the third movement
- on the very borders of
audibility was ambrosia to
the soul, one of those rare
glimpses of eternity that only
music can achieve.
A Haydn adagio as encore
underlined leader Peter
Cropper's equal facility for
elegant sweetness.
Martin Dreyer
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LAST MINUTE
ALTERATION
The BMS much regrets the GAINSBOROUGH QUARTET
has been obliged to CANCEL due to an injury but is proud
to announce its replacement by
THE LINDSAY QUARTET
Quartet K. 575
Quartet Op. 18 No. 4
Quartet
Mozart
Beethoven
Debussy
ασυμμωτικη by Yorkshire Arts
8.00 p.m. THURSDAY, 12th MARCH
THE SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Tickets: £6.00 (Students £3.00; Youth & Music Stage Pass £2.00)
from Ticket World, 6 Patrick Pool, York (York 644194)
or at the hall before the concert.
PRESENTED BY THE BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY OF YORK
in association with the Department of Music, University of York.
ARTS
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OF MUSIC SOCIETIES
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