Season 2012
Programme 2012 (pdf) / Booking Information / Press Release
Booking opens from 15 April 2012 onwards
Priority booking for members:
Patrons 15-24 March 2012
Friends 25 March-14 April 2012
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JUNE WEEKEND
Plush newcomers Karen Gomyo, Herbert Schuch and Jan-Erik Gustafsson are all young soloists of stature who appear with the world’s leading orchestras and festivals. We welcome back Matthew Hunt, Andrej Bielow and Kit Armstrong, whose career as pianist, composer and origami master has soared since he first performed at Plush four years ago.
Kit Armstrong piano
Herbert Schuch piano
Adrian Brendel cello
Jan Erik Gustaffson cello
Karen Gomyo violin
Andrej Bielow violin
Matthew Hunt clarinet
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Plush 1 Friday 1 June
7.30pm, £15
Haydn/ Birtwistle/ Ligeti/ Schubert
A little known treasure by Haydn and Schubert’s eternal masterpiece frame two atmospheric new works by two of the most distinctive composers of our time, Birtwistle and Ligeti.
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FESTIVAL DAY Saturday 2 June
Lunchtime Concert 1-2pm, £10
Open rehearsal 3-5pm, Free
Pre-concert talk 6pm, Free
Evening Concert 7.30pm, £20
Full Day Ticket £25
Plush 2 Lunchtime Discovery Concert
Saturday 2 June, £10
1-2pm
‘Caged Goose’
Join us to explore six distinctive characters of the 20th century, hosted by BBC Radio 3 presenter Donald Macleod.
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Plush 3 Evening concert
Saturday 2 June
7.30pm, £20
Ives/ Schumann/ Messiaen
Messiaen’s beautifully ethereal Quartet for the End of Time follows an original sequence of Schumann arrangements. This is joined by the work of another great visionary, Charles Ives.
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Plush 4 Sunday 3 June
7pm, £15
Beethoven/ Brett Dean/ Dvorak
Australian Brett Dean is highly regarded in the musical world, both as violist and composer. His ‘Huntington Eulogy’ joins Dvorak’s great F minor trio, receiving it’s Plush premiere, and Beethoven’s early violin sonata. This concert will be recorded by the BBC for broadcast on Radio 3.
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JUNE WEEKEND/2
Plush 5 Friday 22 June
7.30pm,
£15
Stian Carstensen accordian, guitar Filip Simeonov clarinet Adrian Brendel cello
Stian Carstensen & Friends
Classical, folk and improvised music from Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and beyond, performed by a uniquely talented multi-instrumentalist, Norway’s Stian Carstensen, with friends including clarinettist Filip Simeonov and cellist Adrian Brendel.
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GALA CONCERT
Plush 6 Saturday 23 June
7.30pm,
£25
SOLD OUT
Aleksandar Madzar piano
Adrian Brendel cello
Debussy/ Chopin/ Carter/ Beethoven
Adrian Brendel and pianist Aleksandar Madzar enjoy a long standing friendship and musical partnership. Tonight they perform four great works including a sonata by Elliot Carter, 103 this year and into his 9th decade of writing music!
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SEPTEMBER WEEKEND
Corey Cerovsek violin
Katharine Gowers violin
Henning Kraggerud violin
Lars Anders Tomter viola
Adrian Brendel cello
Imogen Cooper piano
Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
Rex Lawson pianola
Henning Kraggerud and Lars-Anders Tomter are co-directors of the famous Risor festival in Norway. They are joined by several of our closest musical friends including Corey Cerovsek, Simon Crawford-Phillips and Imogen Cooper, to form an exciting ensemble complemented by Rex Lawson’s pianola.
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Plush 7 Friday 14 September
7.30pm, £15
SOLD OUT
Pre-concert talk 6pm
Bach/ Nancarrow/ Beethoven
Mozart’s magical arrangements of Bach fugues and Beethoven’s great score frame one of Conlon Nancarrow’s studies for pianola, so virtuoso that few living pianists can attempt them.
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Plush 8 Saturday 15 September
7.30pm,
£20
Open rehearsal 3-5pm
Janacek Intimate Letters, Brahms Trio
Janacek/ Schubert/ Nancarrow/ Brahms
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Plush 9
Sunday 16 September
7pm, £20 SOLD OUT
Schubert/ Janacek/ Schubert
Janacek’s deeply personal quartet complements two very different works by Schubert, the sleepwalking ‘Notturno’ and his magnificent trio in Eb.
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SOLO RECITAL
Plush 10 Wednesday 19 September
7.30pm, £20 SOLD OUT
Radu Lupu piano
Schubert/ Franck/ Debussy
The legendary Romanian pianist brings us a programme centering on Franck’s monumental late masterpiece; a profoundly moving musical journey from darkness to light. The evening opens with Schubert’s lyrical Impromptus, and ends with Debussy’s kaleidoscopic Preludes.