September 20, Wigmore Hall - 'Nash Inventions'
6.00pm:
Pre-concert talk: Composers in conversation with Tom Service ahead of the evening concert
7.30pm:
With: Martyn Brabbins (conductor), Simon Wallfisch (baritone **), Peter Tregear (baritone **)
Stravinsky: Concertino for String Quartet
John Casken: Misted Land for clarinet & string quartet (WP *)
Alexander Goehr: The Waking (for two baritones) **
Alexander Goehr: after "The Waking" for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin and double bass (WP)
Harrison Birtwistle: Piano Trio (and possibly new work for viola & cello)
Peter Maxwell Davies: String Quintet
* Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
September 24, Wigmore Hall Coffee Concert
Instrumentation: piano, flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, bassoon & horn
11.30am:
Ravel: Suite from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for clarinet
Stravinsky: Pastorale
Bizet: Jeux d'enfants arr. for piano & wind quintet
Debussy: Syrinx
Poulenc: Sextet for piano and wind quintet
October 28, Wigmore Hall - 'The French Connection'
6.00pm:
Pre-concert talk: Professor Jonathan Cross talks about Stravinsky and his connection with France and French composers
7.30pm:
With: Patricia Routledge (reciter), Ian Brown and Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano duo)
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola & harp
Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka (arr. for 2 pianos)
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Chabrier: Trois Valses Romantiques, Habanera and España (for 2 pianos)
Saint-Saëns: Tarantelle in A minor, Op.6 for flute, clarinet and piano
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
December 9, Wigmore Hall - 'The French Connection'
6.00pm:
Lily Boulanger: D'un soir triste, D'un matin de printemps (piano trio)
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Stravinsky: Suite Italienne for cello & piano
7.30pm:
With: Roderick Williams (baritone)
Debussy: Danse sacrée et Danse profane (harp, string quartet & double bass
Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka (are. for 2 pianos)
Stravinsky: Three movements from The Firebird (piano duo)
Poulenc: Le bal masqué (voice, piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin & cello)
Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (voice & piano)
Ravel: Piano Trio
January 13, Wigmore Hall - 'The French Connection'
7.30pm:
with Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano)
Debussy arr. Benno Sachs: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Music for viola by Vierné, Debussy and Honnoré
Debussy arr. Matthews: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Duparc arr. Matthews: L'invitation au voyage, Phidylé (voice & ensemble)
Ravel: Chansons Madécasses
Ravel: String Quartet
February 10, Wigmore Hall - 'The French Connection'
6.00pm:
Duruflé: Prelude, recitative & variations (flute, viola & piano)
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Ravel: Duo for violin & cello
7.30pm:
With: Sophie Bevan (soprano), Leslie Caron (reciter tbc), Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Ravel arr. Kanga: Sonatine (flute, viola & harp)
Stravinsky: Three Japanese Lyrics, Two Poems of Balmont
Debussy arr. Boulez: Chansons de Bilitis
Ravel: Trois poemes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Fauré: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.15
March 10, Wigmore Hall - 'The French Connection'
7.30pm:
with Eleanor Bron (reciter), Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite for piano duo
Milhaud: Caramel Mou
Poulenc: Babar the Elephant (reciter & piano)
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
March 20, Wigmore Hall - 'The French Connection'
5.30pm:
Side by side concert with students from the Royal Academy of Music & pre-concert talk given by Gillian Moore
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for string quartet
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsody
Poulenc: Sonata for horn, trumpet & trombone
Milhaud: La Cheminée du roi René
Poulenc: Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano
7.30pm:
With: Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)
Saint-Saëns: Caprice sur les airs Danois et Russes
Ravel: Cinq mélodies Greques, Chants populaires
Debussy: String Quartet
Delage: Quatre poèmes Hindus
Fauré: Piano Quartet in G minor, Op.45