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| Simon Callaghan and the Piatti Quartet at Conway Hall in December 2022 |
The 2024/25 season Conway Hall’s Sunday Concert series opens on 15 September 2024 when the Zoffany Ensemble returns to the hall with a programme that combines the original nonet version of Brahms’ Serenade No. 1 with a chamber version of Richard Strauss’ Til Eulenspiegel and the Septet by the 19th century French composer Adolphe Blanc.
The season continues with pianist Patrick Hemmerlé in a programme that moves from Bach and Beethoven, to Albeniz’s Iberia, Granados’ Goyescas and Spanish-inspired movements from Debussy’s Préludes. Then horn player Ben Goldscheider joins the Heath Quartet for a a fascinating programme which includes horn quintets by Mozart and York Bowen, along with Eleanor Alberga’s The Shining Gate of Morpheus for horn quintet. The series artistic director, pianist Simon Callaghan, joins the Brompton Quartet for a programme of Haydn, Grażyna Bacewicz and Dvorak, and there is a pre-concert recital from the Tondo Duo (Sophia Elger, saxophone, Declan Hickey, guitar). The Gildas Quartet will be mixing things up with William Alwyn and Jessie Montgomery alongside Haydn and Debussy.
As part of the Bloomsbury Festival, Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) explore themes of ‘human’ qualities and ‘kindness’ in their programme of Arvo Pärt, Deirdre McKay, Hannah Kendall, Evis Sammoutis, Chick Corea and César Franck. The Autumn series ends on 15 December 2024 when the Primrose Piano Quartet move from a duo by Mozart to a trio by Schubert to a piano quartet by Brahms.
I write the programme notes for the concert series, and give occasional pre-concert talks. My next one is on Sunday 8 December, with Past, present and future, looking at the music of Caroline Shaw, Schumann and Beethoven in advance of the Kyan Quartet’s concert.
Full details from the Conway Hall’s website.
