“Django and The Five Elements”

The Tim Kliphuis Trio are one of the world’s top string groups, combining jaw-dropping virtuosity and mesmerizing improvisations with a beautifully varied repertoire sourced from classical, gypsy jazz and North-European folk music. Award-winning violinist Tim Kliphuis (Netherlands) and Scotsmen Nigel Clark (guitar) and Roy Percy (double bass) celebrate their 17th year of touring together.

Edie Suite William Lovelady

I) A Free Spirit

II) Then The Wind Would Set Her Racing

III) In Autumn Mist

IV) She Ran Through The Fields

Sakura Theme and Variations Yuquijiro Yocoh

Across The Plain

Railroad Gary Ryan

Galway Shawl Traditional Irish

INTERVAL

Van Diemen's Land Traditional Irish

Shenandoah American Folk (arr. Ryan)

Wayfaring Stranger American Folk (arr. Ryan)

Improvisation Manus Noble

Always Kevin Lynch

Koyunbaba Carlo Domeniconi

🌍 AROUND THE WORLD IN 88 PIANO KEYS 🌎

• Norway             Grieg                            Evening in the Mountains - March of the Trolls

• Switzerland       Liszt                             Les Cloches de Genève

• Italy                   Liszt                             Les Jeux d’Eaux à la Villa d’Este

• Spain                Albeniz                         En la Alhambra - Seguidillas (Castilla)

• Ukraine             Serge Bortkiewicz          Les Rochers d’Outche-Coche (from Esquisses de Crimée)

• Romania           Bartók                          Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56 

• Nigeria             Ayo Bankole             Variations for little Ayo      

• Middle East      Roxanna Panufnik         Babylonia (new commission supported by Dangoor Education)

• USA                  Artie Matthews             Two Pastime Rags

• Australia           Peter Sculthorpe           Djilile

• Hong Kong        Abram Chasins              Rush Hour in Hong Kong

• Mexico              Manuel Ponce               Balada Mexicana

Beethoven: Sonata in E major, Op. 109
Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 59
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasie, Op. 61
Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach, Op. 81

A pastoral journey between Utopia and reality - English pastoral music with Brahms Lieder in the first half, followed by

Ravel’s setting of Renard’s Histoires Naturelles in the second.

Manifesto on Love

Centred around Janacek’s second string quartet, « Intimate Letters » this programme explores the idea of love in different shapes.

Mozart - K 575 in D major
Janacek - String quartet no. 2 « Intimate Letters »

Interval

Joy Lisney commission piece
Schumann - String quartet op. 41 no. 3

J. S. Bach - Prelude and Fugue in F Sharp Minor BWV 883 from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II Mozart - Piano Sonata K. 333 in B Flat Major Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 2 (Sonata-Fantasy) in G Sharp Minor

INTERVAL

Chopin - Four Scherzos

• Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20

• Scherzo No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 31

• Scherzo No. 3 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 39

• Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54

Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor

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Matthew Kaner: Highland Scenes
I. Out on the hills 
II. A light dusting
III. Snowbells
IV. Thawing
V. Fireside Tale

Mendelssohn Piano Trio in C minor

JORG WIDMANN: Air for Solo Horn
BEETHOVEN: Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17
Solo piano piece
SCHUMANN:  Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op.70

Interval

HUW WATKINS: Lament (2020)
VOLKER DAVID KIRCHNER: Tre Poemi (1986-1987)
YORK BOWEN: Horn Sonata in Eb, Op.101

Poulenc - 'Napoli' Suite, FP40

E. Chabrier - Pièces pittoresques - II. 'Mélancolie' ; VII. 'Improvisation'

G. Fauré - Nocturne in B major, op. 33 no. 2

M. Ravel - 'Le tombeau de Couperin’

MOZART: Violin Sonata No.25 in F, K.377

STRAVINSKY: Divertimento, transcription for violin & piano by Stravinsky & Samuel Dushkin (after The Fairy's Kiss)

Interval

SCHUMANN: Violin Sonata No.2 in D minor, Op.121

GERSHWIN: 3 preludes for violin and piano arr. Heifetz

Chiaroscuro String Quartet, Matthew Hunt clarinet, Alec Frank-Gemmill horn, Juliane Bruckmann, double bass and Chris Rawley bassoon.

• Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A Major K581

• Schubert Octet in F Major D803

Schubert Four Impromptus D. 899

Skempton Whispers

Mozart Sonata in C K. 330

Beethoven Sonata Op. 13

Schubert/Liszt Litanei

Beethoven Sonata Op. 110 

Haydn String Quartet Op.33 no1 in B minor,

Elgar String Quartet in E minor Op 83

Borodin String Quartet no 2

J. S. Bach - Toccata in G Major, BWV 916

Chopin - Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58

Ravel - Miroirs

Prokofiev Piano Sonata no 3 Op. 28 in A minor

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Judith Weir: Songs from the Exotic

Schumann: Mignon Lieder, Op.98.A

Poulenc: Tel Jour, Telle Nuit

Rosephanye Powell: from Miss Wheatley’s Garden

A winter twilight

Howard Swanson: Night Song

Hale Smith: March Moon

(N.B. The Powell, Swanson and Smith are one set)

Margaret Bonds: Songs of the Seasons

• Winter

• Spring

• Autumn

• Summer

Wolf:

• Du bist wie eine Blume

• Liebesfrühling

• Zitronenfalter im April

• Der Gärtner

Milhaud: Catalogue de Fleurs

Danika Lorèn: The Sex Lives of Vegetables

Brahms G major sonata for violin and piano Op 78

Bach: Sonata for Solo Violin in G minor, BWV1003: i. Grave, ii. Fuga

Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo Op.34, arr. Bezekirsky

Schubert: Fantasie in C Major, D934

Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata in D minor, Op.75

• L. Berkeley Six Preludes Op.23

• Beethoven Sonata quasi una Fantasia in E flat, Op.27 No.1

• Y. Bowen Five Preludes from Op.102

• Chopin Fantasie in F minor Op.49

• Rachmaninoff Three Preludes

• L. Berkeley Six Preludes Op.23

• Beethoven Sonata quasi una Fantasia in E flat, Op.27 No.1

• Y. Bowen Five Preludes from Op.102

• Chopin Fantasie in F minor Op.49

• Rachmaninoff Three Preludes

The evening concert;

• Beethoven’s String Quartet opus 18 no 1

• Mendelssohn’s 6th String Quartet, opus 80

CANCELLED

The afternoon concert;

• Beethoven’s String Quartet opus 18 no 1

• Mendelssohn’s 6th String Quartet, opus 80

CANCELLED