Our 2008/09 season presents exceptional chamber collaboration in all its many forms. Masterpieces of the European tradition are explored by some of the world's greatest ensembles and instrumentalists while, newly for 2008/09, we have invited world-renowned artists from outside the classical tradition, musicians whose virtuosity and artistry effortlessly cross musical boundaries.

VIKTORIA MULLOVA: ARTIST IN FOCUS
Thursday 25 September 2008
Viktoria Mullova violin
Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in E flat, Op.12 No.3
Schubert: Rondo brilliante in B minor, D.895
Schubert: Sonata in A for violin & piano, D.574
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, Op.47 (Kreutzer)

"Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata came at us in a furious flurry of torment and turmoil, the... guttural rasp of her playing never abrasive but always perfectly attuned to one of Beethoven's wildest yet most perfectly formed statements." (The Times)

"Mullova's immaculate playing gave off a lovely sense of resperation, while Bezuidenhout made the fortepiano sound more beautiful than I have ever heard it before." (5 stars, The Independent)

Saturday 27 September 2008
Viktoria Mullova Portrait Concert
Viktoria Mullova violin
Matthew Barley cello
Paul Clarvis percussion
Paul Griffiths guitar
Julian Joseph piano
Fraser Trainer piano
Sam Walton percussion
Pete Whyman clarinet, saxaophone
Viktoria Mullova is joined by some of Britain's leading contemporary musicians for a programme that crosses the boundaries between classical, jazz and world music

Sunday 28 September 2008
Mullova Ensemble
Beethoven: Septet in E flat, Op.20
Schubert: Octet

Sunday 19 October 2008
Takacs String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet in D, K.575
Bartók: String Quartet No.2
Schumann: String Quartet in A, Op.41 No.3

"This is a series of concerts absolutely not to be missed...
The intense collectivity of the Takacs in this awesomely personal work showed once more why they are the Bartók quartet of our age." (The Guardian)

Thursday 6 November 2008
Mitsuko Uchida and friends
Mitsuko Uchida piano*
Soovin Kim violin
Martin Fröst clarinet
Christian Poltéra cello
Llry Williams piano
Liszt: La Lugubre Gondola
Bartók: Contrasts
Messiaen: Quartor pour la fin du temps*

"...few accounts will have matched this one for attention to detail and the quiet intensity that informed every bar." (The Guardian)

"Christian Poltera's cello sounded like a long-breathed human voice, and Kim's violin was ineffably sweet, while Fröst dazzled." (5 stars, The Independent)

Tuesday 20 January 2009
Takacs String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op.76 No.3 (Emperor)
Rihm: New work for string quartet (UK premiere)
Schumann: String Quartet in A minor, Op.41 No.1

Saturday 21 February 2009
Trilok Gurtu & Arke String Quartet
Genre-defying percussionist Trilok Gurtu presents his most recent chamber collaboration, with Italy's Arke String Quartet.

Tuesday 3 March 2009
Emerson String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in B flat, Op.64 No.3
Mozart: String Quartet in B flat, K.589
Webern: Five Movements for string quartet, Op.5
Ravel: String Quartet in F

Front Room Lates
Tuesday 3 March 2009, 10pm
Emerson String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in B flat, Op.64 No.3
Haydn: String Quartet in G minor Op.74 No.3 (The Rider)

Thursday 5 March 2009
Emerson String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op.74 No.3 (The Rider)
Webern: Six Bagatelles, Op.9
Prokofiev: String Quartet No.1 in B minor, Op.50
Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op.95 (Serioso)
Bartók: String Quartet No.3

Thursday 2 April 2009
Arditti String Quartet
Isabel Charisius viola
Valentin Erben cello
Brahms: String Sextet No.1 in B flat, Op.18
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

Monday 11 May 2009
Takacs Quartet
Marc-Andrew Hamelin piano
Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op.77 No.2
Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op.103
Beethoven: String Quartet in D, Op.18 No.3
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat Op.44

Friday 29 May 2009
Robert Levin fortepiano
Haydn: Sonatas, Variations & Fantasias

Saturday 30 May 2009
Robert Levin fortepiano
Elizabeth Wallfisch violin
David Watkin cello
Haydn: Piano Trio in E flat minor Hob.XV/31
Beethoven: Piano Trio in G, Op.1 No.2
Mozart: Piano Trio in B flat, K.502
Haydn: Piano Trio in E flat, Hob.XV/29

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