2019-2020 Season
All concerts start at 1pm and take place at St Mary’s Church, St Mary Street, Weymouth DT4 8PU
Tickets (unreserved): £5.00 at the door (£3 students)
Refreshments by small donaion for concert goers in the cafe prior to each concert
Wednesday 18th December
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
The Barn Choir
Richard Hall conductor
Duncan Honeybourne piano
Programme to include
Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Our traditional annual Christmas celebration features the Barn Choir and their Director Richard Hall in the Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols and other festive favourites.
There is no concert in January 2020
Wednesday 26th February
‘Beethoven 250’
2020 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven and we are delighted to present a series of concerts in celebration of this
CHRISTOPHER HORNER violin
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE piano
Programme
Richard Strauss – Violin Sonata in E flat
Beethoven – Violin Sonata in G major, Op 30 No. 3
Cardiff-based violinist Christopher Horner plays Richard Strauss’ masterly and lyrical Violin Sonata, a work full of romantic emotional feeling, and Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in G major. Written in 1802, the year he confessed his deafness in his famous Heiligenstadt Testament and a time of great upheaval in Vienna, it is a work of great positivity, with a rollicking opening movement.
Wednesday 25th March
‘Beethoven 250’
HONEYBOURNE PIANO TRIO
ANTONIA KESEL violin
PAUL COX cello
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE piano
Programme
Beethoven – Piano Trio in B flat major ‘Archduke’, Op 97
Three renowned soloists, all well known to Weymouth Lunchtime audiences make the first of two piano trio appearances this season. The crowning masterpiece in Beethoven’s series of Piano Trios, the ‘Archduke’ trio is regarded as one of the greatest of all works for this combination of instruments and is striking for its spaciousness and substance, with a serenely beautiful slow movement.
Wednesday 15th April
NINA SAVICEVIC piano
Programme
Music by Glinka, Chopin and Liszt
Nina is a young pianist from Devon, currently studying on a scholarship at the Royal Northern College of Music. She has given recitals across the UK and Europe and we look forward to welcoming her to Weymouth.
Wednesday 6th May
In aid of the Melcombe Day Hospital, Weymouth
‘Beethoven 250’
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE piano
Programme
Beethoven – The Last Three Piano Sonatas
Op 109 in E major
Op 110 in A flat major
Op 111 in C minor
Our Founder/Artistic Director makes his own contribution to this year’s Beethoven 250 celebrations with a performance of the composer’s final three piano sonatas. Aged 50 and completely deaf, Beethoven was at the height of his creative powers when he wrote these three piano sonatas, considered to be the height of piano literature in the Classical period and some of the most personal, intimate music Beethoven ever wrote.
Wednesday 17th June
HONEYBOURNE PIANO TRIO
ANTONIA KESEL violin
PAUL COX cello
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE piano
Programme to include
Ravel – Piano Trio
The Honeybourne Piano Trio finish the season in style with a programme guaranteed to delight, culminating in Ravel’s ebullient and magical Piano Trio.
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