What's On

Thursday 07 March 2013, 7.30pm

• Leslie Howard, piano

Programme

• Beethoven: Sonata No. 13 in Eb major, Op. 27 No.1
• Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C# minor, Op. 27 No. 2, ‘Moonlight’
• Schubert: Fantasie in C major, D760, ‘Wanderer’
• Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S178

"...Absolutely magnificent playing by Howard"  
Philadelphia City Paper

Liszt specialist and Eaton Square Concerts regular, pianist Leslie Howard performs a programme centred on Beethoven Sonatas (including the popular ‘Moonlight Sonata’) together with works by Schubert and Liszt.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 7.30pm

• Chetham’s School of Music
  Chamber music ensembles & soloists

Programme

• Britten: Metamorphoses After Ovid, Op. 40
• Brahms: Paganini Variations Book 1
• Britten: String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25
• Scriabin: Etude in C# minor, Op.1
• Chopin: Etude in A minor, Op.10 No.2
• Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31
• Piazzolla: Oblivion
• Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25

"Chetham’s School of Music is a cultural gem that the whole country should be proud of"
BBC Music Magazine

Students from the esteemed Chetham’s School of Music return to Eaton Square as part of their Britten 100 Series.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 7.30pm

• Choir of Clare College Cambridge
  Graham Ross | director
  Peter Harrison | organ
  St Peter's Eaton Square, London
  

Programme

• LOTTI Crucifixus a 8 (3’)
• LASSUS Tristis est anima mea (4’)
• VICTORIA O vos omnes (6’20)
• TALLIS Salvator mundi, salva nos I (2’40)
• ROSS Ut tecum lugeum (2’)
• BYRD Ave verum corpus (4’)
• BYRD Ne irascaris & Civitas sancti tui (8’30)
• BRUCKNER Christus factus est (5’)
• HOWELLS Take him, earth, for cherishing (8’)
• FAURÉ Requiem (40')

"Thrilling... A tribute to the superb ensemble singing of the Choir of Clare College under Graham Ross"
Gramophone

This wonderful choir presents a programme featuring Fauré’s Requiem celebrating music for Passiontide.

Sponsored by Grosvenor

Thursday 11 April 2013, 7.30pm

• Castalian Quartet
  St Peter’s Prize Winners

Programme

• Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op. 64 No. 5
• Schubert: String Quartet No. 10 in Eb major, D.87
• Brahms: String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 67

This years St Peter’s Prize winners, the Castalian Quartet return for their second performance at Eaton Square Concerts. Having won the 2011 Royal Overseas League’s Elia Fawcett Award for outstanding chamber music ensemble, they are rapidly gaining a reputation for their ‘phenomenal impact on audiences’.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 7.30pm

• Tippett Quartet & Nick Van Bloss
  String Quartet & Piano Quintet

Programme

• Mozart; String Quartet in G major, K.387
• Shostakovich; String Quartet No. 8
• Schumann; Piano Quintet in Eb major, Op.44

The Tippett Quartet make a welcome return to Eaton Square Concerts introducing the critically acclaimed pianist Nick Van Bloss in a performance of the beautiful Schumann Piano Quintet and string quartet works by Mozart and Shostakovich.