bos At the Elmwood Hall October 1999 - May 2000 Belfast Music Society

bas Belfast Music Society The new Season AT THE ELMWOOD HALL Welcome back to the Elmwood Hall. This season has an international flavour with top recitalists from France, Austria, Germany, UK, Canada and USA. The brilliant vocal group | Fagiolini makes a welcome return, with a mini-opera in a gondola, and members of the world-renowned Nash Ensemble will bring our Millennium Season to a close. May I draw your attention to our generous ticket offer which closes on Friday 15 October 1999. We look forward to meeting you at another outstanding BMS season. Clizabeth Bicker Elizabeth Bicker, Chairman at time of going to

Bernard d'Ascoli Bernard d'Ascoli was born in Provence in the South of France in 1958 and began learning piano and organ at the age of eleven. He has performed in many of the world's most prestigious venues and with most London and other British orchestras as well as with many major overseas ensembles such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Boston Symphony. Bernard d'Ascoli has recorded albums of Chopin and Schumann for Nimbus and has made regular recordings as well as live broadcasts for the BBC. Wolfgang Holzmair Russell Ryan Wolfgang Holzmair performs in recitals throughout the world. His extensive discography, including recordings of German Lieder and Mélodies Françaises, have met with critical acclaim. Russell Ryan has appeared frequently on international. platforms and has been featured on radio and TV productions worldwide. Saturday 6th November 1999 7.30pm, Elmwood Hall, Belfast In Partnership with Belfast Festival at Queens Saturday 16th October 1999 7.30pm, Elmwood Hall, Belfast Programme to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Chopin's death DEBUSSY Preludes Book II (1-12) LISZT Funerailles (composed in 1849 after hearing of Chopin's death) CHOPIN 4th Ballade, op 52 Nocturne in D flat op 27 no 2 2 Mazurkas, in C# minor op 63 no 2 & A minor op 7 no 2 Scherzo no 3 in C# op 39 Songs by Franz Schubert 'Auf dem Wasser zu singen' Fischerweise D881 - (Schlechta) Der Fischer D225 - (Goethe) Wie Ulfru fischt D525 - (Mayrhofer) Auf der Donau D553 - (Mayrhofer) Selige Welt D743 - (Senn) Der Schiffer D694 - (F Schlegel) Das Fischermädchen D957 (Book 2 No 10)-(Heine) Am Meer D957 (Book 2 No 12) - (Heine) Auf dem Wasser zu singen D774 - (Stollberg) Am Bach im Frühling D361 - (Schober) Der Jüngling an der Quelle D300 - (Salis) Der Schiffer D536 - (Mayrhofer) Der Sänger D149 Geistes-Gruss D142 Schäfers Klagelied D121 An Mignon D161 Geheimes D719 Auf dem See D543 Ganymed D544 Wanderers Nachtlied ("Der du von dem Himmel...") D224 Wanderers Nachtlied ("Über allen Gipfeln...") D768 Rastlose Liebe D138 An die Entfernte D765 Der Musensohn D764

Angela Hewitt Angela Hewitt has been hailed as "one of the outstanding Bach pianists of our time" (The Sunday Times, London, 1997), In 1994 she embarked on a ten-year project to record all of the major keyboard works by Bach for the Hyperion label The Inventions, French Suites, and Partitas have all been included in Gramophone magazine's "Editors Choice" and are receiving worldwide acclaim for their artistry, "effortlessly eclipsing all competitors" (Gramophone, 1997). Her recording of Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier was featured as Pick of the Month in the BBC Music Magazine, in Gramophone's Critics' Choice, and in the Sunday Times Best CDs of 1998. She has performed throughout North America and Europe, as well as in Japan, Australia, China, Mexico, and the former Soviet Union. Vogler String Quartet The Vogler Quartet is now established as one of Europe's leading quartets. Their international schedule includes regular appearances at London's Wigmore Hall, the Louvre and Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Munich, Hamburg, at the Schauspielhaus Berlin (performing a four concert cycle each year), in Vienna, New York, Kennedy Center Washington, Madrid, Lisbon, Athens, Rome, Palermo and Zurich. In the 1999/2000 season the Vogler Quartet will celebrate its 15th anniversary with Beethoven cycles in Toronto, Seville and Valencia and tours to the US and Canada. In September 2000 they make their debut in New Zealand and will tour Japan. Saturday 26th February 2000 7.30pm, Elmwood Hall, Belfast Sunday 16th January 2000 4.00pm, Elmwood Hall, Belfast BACH Italian Concerto Preludes and Fugues Nos 9-12 from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book Il The Goldberg Variations HAYDN Quartet in G, Op76 No 11 RAVEL Quartet SCHUMANN Quartet in A minor, Op 41, No 11 PLEASE COMPLETE IN BLOCK CAPITALS Name Address Postcode Tel (Daytime) Tel [Evening) Email enclose cheque/postal order made payable to Belfast Music Society (A/C Payee only) for the sum of £50.00.

The subscription offer for our 1999 2000 season For a sum of £50.00 you will receive seven vouchers (value £70.00 full rate or €56.00 reduced rate). You can use any number of vouchers for each concert. Just hand the vouchers in at the door of the Elmwood Hall. All seats unreserved. This scheme will be available until Friday 15 October 1999. Thereafter individual tickets can be purchased at the door or at the address below. Please complete the form overleaf and send it to: Ticket Office Elmwood Hall at Queen's 89 University Road, Belfast BT7 1NF Telephone 028 9066 8798 NB Postal and Counter Booking. Please mark postal bookings BMS. ed Priest (Recorders, baroque violin and 'cello harpsichord) Described in Gramophone as "the UK's most dynamic, theatrical and outrageously different baroque ensemble", Red Priest has given over 60 concerts in its first two seasons. Red Priest's debut CD, "Priest on the Run", has been broadcast several times on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM, and received rave reviews: "The effect is like crossing a Wigmore Hall recital with a Guinness-soaked session in an Irish bar... highly competent and infectiously different." "Faint hearts should prepare themselves..." (BBC Music Magazine). I Fagiolini I Fagionlini first came to national prominence in 1989 by winning the Early Music Network's Young Artists' Competition and have since travelled to much of Europe. Other recordings to hit the stands are The Caged Byrd (following on from The Early Byrd in their Chandos Byrd series) and All the King's Horses, the sequel to All the King's Men (editor's choice in March's Gramophone) and their series of early Renaissance secular recordings for Metronome. Saturday 11th March 2000 7.30pm, Elmwood Hall, Belfast VIVALDI Concerto in D ("Priest on the Run") de SALAVERDE - Canzona Terza CASTELLO - Sonata CAZZATI - Zeffiro's Ground de NARVAEZ Cancion del Emporador ANON - Renaissance Revels TELEMANN - Sonata in A minor VIVALDI - Concerto Grosso in A minor PURCELL - Two in One Upon a Ground JS BACH Sarabande and Gigue for 'Cello SCHMELZER - The Cuckoo Sonata ORTIZ - The Spanish Dance VIVALDI Concerto in F minor - ("The Nightmare") Saturday 1st April 2000 7.30pm, Elmwood Hall, Belfast ADRIANO BANCHIERI Barca di Venetia per Padova Classic madrigal comedy-lovers, sailors prostitutes, broken guitars and a prayer meeting all thrown into one boat in a commedia dell'arte riot. [Produced for I Fagiolini by West End director Peter Wilson). POULENC Sept Chansons TRADITIONAL IRISH Donnel Og WILLIAMS/KNAPMAN Una parola nell'orecchio

Members of the Nash Ensemble lan Brown, Leo Phillips and Richard Watkins are members of the Nash Ensemble which has built a remarkable reputation for its playing all over the world. With a repertoire that includes works from Mozart to the Avant Garde, the Ensemble is one of the major contributors towards the recognition and promotion of many leading composers through first performances of over two hundred new works. Y CONS OF FREE SOCHINES NFMS ARTS COUNCIL bis Ticket Office Elmwood Hall at Queen's 89 University Road Belfast BT7 1NF Tel 028 9066 8798 Saturday 6th May 2000 7.30pm, Elmwood Hall, Belfast BEETHOVEN Sonata in F, Op.24 "Spring" for violin and piano LENNOX BERKELEY Trio for horn, violin and piano SCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70 for horn, violin and piano BRAHMS Trio in E flat, Op 40 for horn, violin and piano The Season at a Glance Bernard d'Ascoli Saturday 16th October 1999 Wolfgang Holzmair/Russell Ryan Saturday 6th November 1999 Angela Hewitt Sunday 16th January 2000 Vogler String Quartet Saturday 26th February 2000 Red Priest Saturday 11th March 2000 I Fagiolini Saturday 1st April 2000 Nash Ensemble Saturday 6th May 2000