Maggini Quartet | Sunday 8th September
Conway Hall favourites the Maggini Quartet open our Autumn 2019 season with a wonderful mix of 1940s Paris chic and supreme craft from Berkeley between two great works from the classical repertoire.
Conway Hall Sunday Concerts
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September 2019
Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – Arrangement, Transcription and Popularisation | Sunday 15th September
In this free Pre-Concert Talk, British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill, discusses arrangement, transcription and popularisation in late 18th and 19th century composition.
I Musicanti + pre-concert talk | Sunday 15th September
Following their wonderful performance at Conway Hall in September 2018, I Musicanti make a welcome return in an all Beethoven programme, as a prelude to Beethoven’s upcoming anniversary year.
Peter Cigleris & Tippett Quartet | Sunday 22nd September
Clarinettist Peter Cigleris joins the Tippett Quartet to present two works from two conflicting schools of British composition alongside one of the greatest in the genre that kick-started the English clarinet quintet.
Delta Piano Trio | Sunday 29th September
Founded in 2013 by three Dutch performers, the Delta Piano Trio have won numerous international awards. This performance for Conway Hall flanks cutting-edge twentieth and twenty-first century works for piano trio with German classics for the ensemble.
October 2019
Piatti Quartet & Simon Callaghan | Sunday 6th October
The up-and-coming Piatti Quartet make a welcome return to Conway Hall, joined by Director of Music Simon Callaghan to perform Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet
Trio Concertante | Sunday 13th October
In a rare UK performance, Trio Concertante perform three of the most popular works for piano trio, culminating in the symphonic first trio by Johannes Brahms.
Pre-Concert Talk: Peter Quantrill – Small Steps and Giant Leaps | Sunday 20th October
To tie in with the Bloomsbury Festival, musicologist Peter Quantrill talks about the evening’s programme in the context of the development of the string quartet and its pioneers.
Chamber Philharmonic Europe | Sunday 20th October
The unusually dissonant introduction to Mozart’s Quartet K465, dedicated to Joseph Haydn, opens a colourful programme of works for string quartet, spanning almost 150 years and featuring Janáček’s 1923 work inspired by Tolstoy’s novella.
FREE Pre-Concert Recital: Royal College of Music Musicians – Eumelia Trio | Sunday 27th October
This FREE Pre-Concert Recital, featuring students from the Royal College of Music, will take place before the evening’s Sunday Concert. Performing a programme of music entirely by woman composers, this week’s ensemble will be the Eumelia Trio.
Timothy Ridout & Jâms Coleman | Sunday 27th October
For their Conway Hall début, this duo come together in a programme of Russian and Belgian works for viola and piano, culminating in one of César Franck’s best-known compositions, originally for violin and piano.
November 2019
Camerata Alma Viva | Sunday 3rd November
Camerata Alma Viva make a welcome return to Conway Hall as part of their European tour and new album release.
Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – The Cinderella Effect – A History of the Piano Quartet | Sunday 10th November
British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill, returns to Conway Hall for a free Pre-Concert Talk, exploring the impact of Mozart’s first piano quartet.
Rossetti Ensemble | Sunday 10th November
Mozart was among the first to explore the piano quartet, and it is his graceful E flat quartet that opens this concert.
FREE Pre-Concert Recital: Royal College of Music Musicians – Brompton Quartet | Sunday 17th November
This FREE Pre-Concert Recital, featuring students from the Royal College of Music, will take place before the evening’s Sunday Concert. Performing a programme of music entirely by woman composers, this week’s ensemble will be the Brompton Quartet.
Carducci Quartet | Sunday 17th November
Posthumously discovered by Moeran’s widow in 1950, British composer Ernest John Moeran’s E flat quartet is full of echoes of Ireland, where Moeran spent much of his life.
Linos Piano Trio | Sunday 24th November
The Linos Piano Trio returns to Conway Hall with the rarely heard Beethoven transcription of his own second Symphony, followed by the trio’s re-imagination of the variations from the Eroica Symphony.
December 2019
Fitzwilliam Quartet & Simon Callaghan | Sunday 1st December
Simon Callaghan joins the Fitzwilliam Quartet for this performance of Elgar, Haydn and Beethoven
Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – The Fascinating History of the Saxophone | Sunday 8th December
British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill, returns to Conway Hall for a free Pre-Concert Talk, exploring the invention of the saxophone.
Arcis Saxophone Quartet | Sunday 8th December
Endless fascinating prairie landscapes; the exciting pulse of the city that never sleeps; the swinging life of the Southern states; stories full of dreams, hopes and love. In ‘American Dreams’, the Arcis Saxophone Quartet presents a broad musical range of the American way of life.
FREE Pre-Concert Recital: Royal College of Music Musicians | Sunday 15th December
This FREE Pre-Concert Recital, featuring students from the Royal College of Music, will take place before the evening’s Sunday Concert, and will offer a programme of music entirely by woman composers.
Piatti Quartet | Sunday 15th December
Our Autumn 2019 series of concerts comes to a close with Schubert’s G major quartet, and the Piatti Quartet’s performance begins with Suk’s Meditation on ‘St Wenceslas’.