BRINGING THE ORCHESTRA TO LIFE – ELY CATHEDRAL
Ely Sinfonia combines The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra with Ravel’s Bolero, Shostakovich’s best-loved symphony and a new work by Cambridge’s young composer of the year 2011
Ely Cathedral, Saturday 3 March 2012, 7.30pm

What can be a more joyful way of finding out about music than Britten’s “The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra”? On Saturday 3rd March, families from Ely, Cambridge and beyond are invited to come together for a concert combining what is probably the best-known introduction to music in the orchestral repertoire with an array of popular pieces, including Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, Ravel’s highly evocative Bolero (forever associated with Olympic skaters Torvill and Dean) and a new piece by Alex Cook, Cambridge Young Composer of the Year in 2011.
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is one of the most popular pieces used in musical education. It is a kind of orchestral sandwich, in which the whole orchestra begins by playing the theme, and then all the different families of instruments play separately before it finishes in a loud climax with everyone playing once more. It was originally written for a film featuring the legendary conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent, but has been played many times over the years.
Ely Sinfonia is complementing this with one of the most exciting and sensual pieces of music ever written, Ravel’s Boléro, which is still intrinsically linked to Torvill and Dean, whose highly evocative interpretation won the 1984 Olympic gold medal for ice dance. It was originally written as a ballet for the Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein, and is now Ravel's most famous musical composition.
The premier of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony was so successful that the piece received a standing ovation lasting over half an hour. Today it is no less popular, ranging from the hauntingly beautiful to satirical and, in places, grandiose.

Sunday 12 February, 7.30pm
Mozart: Winds of Heaven
Celebrating Cam Sight’s 100th Anniversary with an all-Mozart programme:

Sinfonia Concertante K.297b
Piano Concerto No.15 in B flat, K.450
Quintet for Piano and Winds, K.452

Piano – Mateusz Borowiak
Conductor – Michael Thorne

With outstanding young wind soloists from the LSO and LPO, and string players from the Badke quartet

All proceeds to Cam Sight

The Ashmolean Museum is delighted to welcome Conductor John Lubbock and the Orchestra of St John’s to perform a series of promenade concerts throughout 2012 in the Ashmolean Atrium. Taking inspiration from the Museum’s collections, each themed concert will be introduced by members of the Ashmolean’s curatorial team.

Handel, Israel in Egypt

Saturday, March 24th, 2012 at 7:30pm

King’s College Chapel, Cambridge

Experience the drama of Handel’s magnificent sacred oratorio, performed in one of the most iconic buildings in the world. With Alison Daniels, Michael Chance, Nicholas Morris, Richard Lloyd Morgan and the English Chamber Orchestra.

Tickets from Cambridge Corn Exchange Box Office (tel. 01223 357851) or by emailing tickets@fairhavensingers.org.uk: £25 (front nave), £18 (rear nave), £12/£8 (under-18s).

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET - 20th Season as ‘Quartet in Residence’, University of Cambridge.

‘The Endellion is arguably the finest quartet in Britain’ - The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Wednesday, 9th May 2012
Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op.18 No.6
Mendelssohn String Quartet No.6 in F minor Op.80
TBC Quintet with Cambridge University Student

Back to Beethoven with the most revolutionary of his early quartets, to be followed by Mendelssohn’s stormy and tragic last quartet, written in the state of anguish and devastation caused by his sister Fanny’s death. Finally, we shall have a mystery item for which we shall be joined by a Cambridge student

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ENDELLION STRING QUARTET - 20th Season as ‘Quartet in Residence’, University of Cambridge.

‘The Endellion is arguably the finest quartet in Britain’ - The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Wednesday, 25th April 2012
Mozart String Quartet No.14 in G K.387 (‘Spring’)
Britten String Quartet No.3 Op.94
Mendelssohn String Quartet No.5 in E flat Op.44 No.3

In this concert, the first and perhaps most elusive of Mozart’s mature quartets will precede Britten’s haunting Third Quartet, one of the last pieces he wrote. These will be followed by another electrifying dose of Mendelssohn.

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The Endellion's last concert in the 2011-12 season at West Road Concert Hall will be on 9th May 2012:
Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op.18 No.6
Mendelssohn String Quartet No.6 in F minor Op.80
TBC Quintet with Cambridge University Student

Back to Beethoven with the most revolutionary of his early quartets, to be followed by Mendelssohn’s stormy and tragic last quartet, written in the state of anguish and devastation caused by his sister Fanny’s death. Finally, we shall have a mystery item for which we shall be joined by a Cambridge student.

To be put on the Endellion's mailing list for information about future concerts and special offers, please email: sarah.biggs@orchidpromotions.com or phone 01223 312400.

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET - 20th Season as ‘Quartet in Residence’, University of Cambridge.

‘The Endellion is arguably the finest quartet in Britain’ - The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Wednesday, 7th March 2012 (7.30 pm)
Mendelssohn String Quartet No.3 in D Op.44 No.1
Fauré Quartet for Piano and Strings No.1 in C minor Op.15
Brahms Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor Op.34

Guest Pianist Kathryn Stott

We shall be joined in this concert by the wonderful pianist Kathryn Stott for Fauré’s magical First Piano Quartet and Brahms’s intensely powerful Piano Quintet. These will be preceded by the brilliance of Mendelssohn’s dazzling D major quartet – his Op.44 No.1 was actually written the year after Op.44 No.2.

This concert is sponsored by MILLS & REEVE.

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Further Endellion concerts in the series at West Road Concert Hall are on 25 APRIL & 9 MAY 2012. For full details, a leaflet and special offers, please email: sarah.biggs@orchidpromotions.com or phone Hazard Chase on 01223 312400.

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET - 20th Season as ‘Quartet in Residence’, University of Cambridge.

‘The Endellion is arguably the finest quartet in Britain’ - The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Wednesday, 18th January 2012 (7.30 pm)
Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op.71 No.3 (‘Apponyi’)
Walton String Quartet in A minor
Mendelssohn String Quartet No.4 in E minor Op.44 No.2

In this concert we shall be performing another of Haydn’s wonderful ‘Apponyi’ quartets of 1793 followed by Walton’s large scale and fascinating quartet. The scherzo in Walton’s quartet must have been inspired by Mendelssohn’s many brilliant scherzi: there will be a perfect example of one of these in this concert’s quartet.

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Further Endellion concerts in the series at West Road Concert Hall are on 7 MARCH, 25 APRIL & 9 MAY 2012. For full details, a leaflet and special offers, please email: sarah.biggs@orchidpromotions.com or phone Hazard Chase on 01223 312400.