Conway Hall's Autumn season of Sunday concerts returns on 2 October 2022 with eleven concerts and two pre-concert talks

Greenwich Piano Trio (Photo Peter Searle)

Conway Hall's Autumn season of Sunday concerts returns on 2 October 2022 with eleven concerts and two pre-concert talks (one by yours truly), with repertoire that stretches from the 18th century to the present day. The season opens with the Primrose Piano Quartet in two masterpieces of the genre, Mozart's Piano Quartet in E♭ K.493 and Faure's Piano Quartet in C minor Op.15 plus music by Jean Francaix and Saint-Saens. This is followed on 9 October by the Minerva Piano Trio celebrating the release of their new album on SOMM, in a programme which pairs Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite, in an arrangement by the group's cellist Richard Birchall, with one of Birchall's own piece. They programme also features two classics of the repertoire, Haydn's Gypsy Rondo Trio and Beethoven's Ghost Trio, plus music by Caroline Shaw.

This year is RVW's 150th birthday, so in Seeking Utopia violist Shiry Rashkovsky, pianist Viv McLean and author/narrator Jessica Duchen will be exploring the friendship between RVW and violist Lionel Tertis, including RVW's Suite for viola plus music by Holst, Rebecca Clarke, Delius, Bloch and Korngold.

On 23 October, the Greenwich Trio will be performing music by Clara Schumann, Fenny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn and Brahms, preceded by a pre-concert talk by Katy Hamilton discussing he personal and professional relationships that brought about the composition of the music in the programme. My own pre-concert talk takes place on 27 November when the Barbican Quartet play quartets by Haydn, Schumann and Bartok, and beforehand I talk about Bartok's development of the string quartet

Other highlights include include Trio Havisham, recent winners of the CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition, making their Conway Hall debut. 

Full details from the Conway Hall website.