Sunday 8 December 2019, 6.30pm (doors 5.45pm)
St George’s Church, Tombland, Norwich
Christmas with UEA Chamber Choir
UEA Chamber Choir
Tom Primrose conductor
A selection of seasonal music for a capella voices
Experience centuries of seasonal music with UEA’s Chamber Choir as they present a programme of a capella vocal gems. A not-to-be-missed highlight in Norwich’s musical Christmas calendar!
Tickets: Free to attend. Capacity is limited, so please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
André Schuen
Thursday 21st November 2019, 7:30pm at the John Innes Conference Centre
Pre-concert talk by Richard Wigmore at 6.15pm
For fans of the Lieder repertoire, we have a real treat at our second November concert. Andrè Schuen has given song recitals at the Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder Festival and the Vienna Concert House, and has also performed on the opera stage worldwide. In 2016 he received the Young Artist of the Year award from ECHO Klassic in Germany (equivalent to the Gramophone awards). Andrè is joined by Daniel Heide for a recital of Mahler and Schubert songs.
Programme:
Mahler: Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht; Ging heut morgen übers Feld; Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer; Die zwei blauen Augen
Schubert: An den Mond (D.259); Im Frühling; Der Schiffer (D.536);
Abendstern; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Musensohn; Sei mir gegrüßt;
Du bist die Ruh; Dass sie hier gewesen
Mahler: Liebst du um Schönheit; Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!;
Ich atmet‘ einen linden Duft; Um Mitternacht; Ich bin der Welt
abhanden gekommen
Andrè Schuen, one of today’s outstanding young baritones, took leading roles in all three of the Mozart/Da Ponte operas under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and gave highly successful performances of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang at the prestigious Schubertiade in Schwartzenberg. In this programme, Schubert and Mahler meet their common ground in settings of the poet Friedrich Rückert.
Advance notice: Norfolk & Norwich Festival concert
In partnership with the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, next year NNCM is sponsoring a concert by the renowned American pianist Richard Goode. This event, on Saturday May 16th 2020 at the John Innes Centre, is additional to our current season, so everyone will need to purchase tickets to attend. Booking has now opened – please do get your tickets soon to avoid disappointment! The programme will include Beethoven’s last three piano Sonatas, Op 109, 110 and 111
https://nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/richard-goode/book/201/
Message from the Chair
We have a strong and hard working Committee, but we are always seeking new Trustees and volunteers. At the moment, we would particularly welcome the support of a Trustee or Volunteer interested in the general roles of Secretary, Minutes Secretary or Marketing Advisor.
With best wishes
Peter Lawson
Chairman
Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Music
https://norfolkchambermusic.org
Saturday 16 November 2019, 7.30pm
Ashley Grote, Master of Music Norwich Cathedral Photo Paul Hurst
HANDEL Israel in Egypt
Norwich Cathedral Chamber Choir
Norwich Baroque
Katherine Crompton soprano
Kirsty O’Neill soprano
Timothy Morgan counter tenor
Simon Wall tenor
Edward Grint & Bradley Travis bass
Ashley Grote conductor
Tickets £5-£28
Please see www.cathedral.org.uk for full details of these and other events. We look forward to welcoming you to Norwich Cathedral.
Aaron Copland In the beginning
Dan Forrest Good night, dear heart
Randall Thompson Alleluia
Ernst Toch Geographical fugue
David del Tredici Acrostic song
Eric Whitacre When David heard
Plus folksong and spiritual arrangements by James Erb, Robert Fountain and John Rutter
A programme exploring some jewels of 20th-century American choral music. Copland’s choral fantasia joyfully expounds the Genesis story of creation, while Whitacre’s deeply felt setting of a line from the Second Book of Samuel really plucks at the heartstrings. The programme will include both a speaking chorus (Toch) and a whispering chorus (del Tredici) as well as Randall Thompson’s classic setting of just one word.
Director: Chris Duarte
Venue: Church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich
Time: 7.30 pm
Tickets £12/£7/£2, and can be bought:
Saturday 9 November 2019, 7.30pm
Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra
Norwich Philharmonic Chorus
Holst Ballet Suite, The Perfect Fool
Bridge The Sea, Suite for Orchestra
Finzi Intimations of Immortality
Matthew Andrews, David Dunnett conductors
Adam Tunnicliffe tenor
Saturday 21 November 2019, 7.30pm
Andrè Schuen : Baritone
Daniel Heide : Piano
Mahler Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht;
Ging heut morgen übers Feld; Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer; Die zwei blauen Augen
Schubert An den Mond (D.259); Im Frühling; Der Schiffer (D.536); Abendstern;
Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Musensohn;
Sei mir gegrüßt; Du bist die Ruh;
Dass sie hier gewesen
Mahler Liebst du um Schönheit; Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!; Ich atmet‘ einen linden Duft; Um Mitternacht; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Andrè Schuen, one of today’s outstanding young baritones, took leading roles in all three of the Mozart/ Da Ponte operas under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and gave highly successful performances of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang at the prestigious Schubertiade in Schwartzenberg. In this programme, Schubert and Mahler meet their common ground in settings of the poet Friedrich Rückert.
Pre-concert talk by Richard Wigmore 6.15pm.
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www.norwichchambermusic.co.uk
Friday 4 October at The Chapel
• 2-5pm Vocal Masterclass with Dame Emma Kirkby : £5
• 7.30-9.30pm Concert and Talk : Friends, Foes and Fellow-Musicians : The Chapel : £15
Saturday 5 October at The Chapel & Princes Street URC
• 10.30-11.30am Family-friendly Concert : The Chapel : Free
• 1-2pm Concert : From Leipzig to London : The Chapel : £15
• 2.30-3.45pm Interactive Talk by Benjamin Hebbert : Every Instrument Tells a Story : The Chapel : £5
• 7.30-9.30pm Concert : The Concerto Story : Princes St : £20
Sunday 6 October at The Chapel & Princes Street URC
• 10.30-11.30pm Coffee Concert : Kaffeehaus Culture :
The Chapel : £15 inc coffee
• 12.45-2pm Illustrated Concert : Halle, Hanover & Hamburg The Chapel : £15
• 4.30-5.30pm Talk Dr David Vickers : Handel & His Patrons Princes Street URC : £5
• 6-8pm Festival Finale Concert : Handel’s Acis and Galatea : Princes Street URC : £20
Venues: The Chapel 64 Park Lane, Norwich NR2 3EF
United Reformed Church, Princes Street, Norwich NR3 1AZ
For a full festival programme, passes and booking details, see http://www.brookstreetband.co.uk/love-handel-2019
The Brook Street Band (formed in 1996 by baroque cellist Tatty Theo) is named after the London street where Handel lived and worked. It is now recognised amongst the UK’s leading period instrument ensembles, winning awards, and accolades for recordings and broadcasts from Radio 3, Classic FM and Gramophone Magazine. The Band’s most recent CD ‘Handel Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo’ was shortlisted in the category for chamber music/small ensemble at the Grammy Awards. The Brook Street Band relishes its Norfolk connections, with frequent concerts and education projects in the region. The Band founded the highly successful biennial festival love: Handel, which combines concerts with an education programme for young people.
Saturday 5 October 2019, 7.30pm
St Andrews Hall, Norwich
Autumn Concert
Smetana Vltava ‘Má Vlast’
Ravel Mother Goose (Ma mère l’Oye)
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Conductor Tadeusz Kaznowski
Leader Fiona Hutchins
Conducted by our Resident Conductor Tadeusz Kaznowski, the Mozart Orchestra offers a dazzling and colourful concert of music to close its 2019 season!
Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade, considered to be Rimsky Korsakov’s most popular work combining features typical of Russian music and Smetana’s Vltava one of the most widely performed symphonic poems which describes the course of the river Vltava starting from two small springs to the unification of both streams into a single current.
Founded in 1961, the Mozart Orchestra has established itself as one of the leading orchestras in the local area, giving up to four concerts from May to October, usually three in Norwich and one further afield in East Anglia. The orchestra explores a wide-ranging repertoire and showcases both locally and nationally renowned soloists.
Further details about Mozart Orchestra and the forthcoming concert programme can be found
on the website at http://www.mozartorchestra.org.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mozartorchestra
At The Assembly House in Norwich this Thursday 1pm
This Thursday lunchtime Assembly House Classical are really excited to present a concert by the renowned Fitzwilliam Quartet.
The Fitzwilliam Quartet became well known through their close association with Dmitri Shostakovich, who met them on a visit to York. He entrusted them with the Western premières of his last three quartets, and they were the first quartet to perform and record all fifteen. The quartet was founded in 1968 by four Cambridge undergraduates and is now one of the longest established quartets in the world.
The programme for the afternoon includes –
Bach – Art of Fugue No 1
Shostakovich – String Quartet No 11
Beethoven – String Quartet Op 131
Tickets are selling well in advance but there still some available to buy online and we will make some available to purchase on the door this Thursday from 12:15 pm when doors open. The concert itself will start at the usual time of 1:00 pm.
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Saturday 14 September 2019, 7.30pm
St Andrew’s Church, Hingham NR9 4HL
A concert of English and American music
Vaughan Williams Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Butterworth On the Banks of Green Willow
Samuel Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Copland Quiet City
Rachmaninov Vocalise
Saint-Saëns Symphony No.2
Matthew Andrews conductor
Catherine May soprano
An evocative programme featuring Anglo-American connections highlighting the links between Abraham Lincoln and the Parish of Hingham.
Soprano Catherine May teams up with her husband Matthew Andrews for Barber’s haunting Knoxville: Summer of 1915.
