2025 Programme

29 March 2025

Baroque Alchemy:
Piers Adams (recorders)
and Lyndy Mayle (keyboards)

Programme to include:
ALBINONI: The Other Adagio
PIAZZOLLA: Café 1930
ALBENIZ: Asturias
JS BACH: Goldberg Gala

26 April 2025

Matilda Lloyd (trumpet)
Simon Lepper (piano)

Programme to include
HONEGGER: Intrada
DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano, 1. Prélude
HOWARD: Sonata for trumpet and piano, "Continuum"
DEBUSSY: Préludes Book 1, 12. Minstrels
VIARDOT: Chanson de Pluie
FAURÉ: Le Papillon et la Fleur, Op.1

BORODIN: String Quartet No.2
HARDING: Iorsa
PUCCINI: Chrisantemi
TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartetr No.1 in F Major, Op.11

CON ARTE e MAESTRIA

Webber, in the style of  Bassano    Ricercata 
Crecquillon, c.1505-c.1557            Par trop souffrir de fortune ennemie
Mayone, c.1565-1627                     Canzon Francese Prima
Marini, 1594-1663                          Sinfonia ‘La Gardana’  
di Lasso, c.1532-1594                   Susanne ung jour
Gärtner                                           Toccata
de Rore                                           Vergine bella
Webber, inspired by Monteverdi     Ciaccona      

INTERVAL   

Rossi, c.1601-1656                        Toccata Nona       
Castello, 1602-1631                      Sonata Prima   
‘Carlo G’, fl. c.1600-1620              Convertisti planctum
Capriolo, c.1580-c.1627                Vulnerasti cor meum
Mortaro,                                         Canzona ‘La Malvezza’
de Rore                                          Ben qui si mostra il ciel
Virgiliano, fl. c.1600                      Prelude on ‘Vestiva i colli’
Palestrina                                     Così le chiome mie  
Palestrina                                     Io son ferito, ahi lasso

Programme to include works by Chopin, as well as
Yuanfan's signature improvisations based on themes
suggested by the audience.

16 August 2025

Valerie Coleman Afro-Cuban Concerto (2001) ca.16′

• I. Afro
• II. Vocalise
• III. Danza

Dmitri Shostakovich Suite for Wind Quintet (arr.Hartnell-Booth) ca.9’

• I. Romance (from ‘The Gadfly’)
• II. Bureaucrat’s Dance (from ‘The Bolt’)
• III. Waltz No.2 (from ‘The First Echelon’)

Carl Nielsen Wind Quintet Op.43 (1923) ca.25′

• I. Allegro Ben Moderato
• II. Menuetto
• III. Praeludium – Tema Con Variazioni

Interval

Anton Reicha Wind Quintet in Eb major, Op 88, No.2 (1917) ca.15’

• I. Lento – Allegro Moderato
• II. Scherzo. Allegro
• III. Andante Grazioso
• IV. Finale. Allegro Molto

Darius Milhaud La Cheminée du Roi René op.205 (1939) ca.15’

• I. Cortège (Procession)
• II. Aubade (Dawnsong)
• III. Jongleurs (Jugglers)
• IV. La Maousinglade (Sarabande)
• V. Joutes sur l’Arc (Jousting on the River Arc)
• VI. Chasse à Valabre (Hunting at Valabre)
• VII. Madrigal Nocturne (Nocturnal Madrigal)

Lalo Schifrin La Nouvelle Orleans (1987) ca. 8′

WILKOMMEN, BIENVENUE, WELCOME...
A cabaret programme to include music by Ives, Marlew,
Gershwin,Schoenberg, Weill and Poulenc.

PATER PECCAVI - Music of Lamentation from Renaissance Portugal
Estêvão de Brito: Heu Domine
Duarte Lobo: Pater Peccavi
Vicente Lusitano: Heu me, Domine
Duarte Lobo: Kyrie from Missa Veni Domine
Filipe de Magalhaes: Commissa mea pavesco
Aires Fernandez: Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
Manuel Cardoso: Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
Duarte Lobo: Gloria from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago: Commissa mea pavesco
Duarte Lobo: Sanctus from Missa Veni Domine
GP da Palestrina: Adoramus te (AATB – in Vila vicosa MS)
Duarte Lobo: Benedictus from Missa Veni Domine
Estêvão Lopes Morago: Emendemus in melius
Vicente Lusitano: Regina caeli laetare
Manuel Cardoso: Agnus Dei from Missa Tradent enim vos
Duarte Lobo: Audivi vocem de caelo