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Previous Seasons2010 - 2011From Bach to BoulezGems from Bach featured alongside 20th century composers including Bartok, Britten, Elgar, Tavener, Villa Lobos and Whettam, with a special 85th birthday tribute to Pierre Boulez.Thursday 14 October 2010 - Patricia Rozario (soprano) and Craig Ogden (guitar)Gerhard – Cantares, Bach – Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV 998, Villa Lobos – Bachianas Brasileiras no 5, Tavener – Melina; Epistle of Love, Torroba – Sonatina, Tarrega – Recuerdos de Alhambra, Rodrigo – Four SongsThursday 18 November 2010 - Quatuor ParisiiBach – Art of Fugue, Beethoven – Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op 133,
Boulez – Livre pour Quatuor
Thursday 20 January 2011 - Andrew Whettam – Percussion calls the Tune J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in Bb no 21; O Haubt voll Blut und Wundern, Graham Whettam – Marimba Sonata, Andrew Whettam – Just Now; Cuban Adventure, Clair Omar Musse – Etude in C, Op 10 no 6, Keiko Abe – Memories of the Seashore, Lennon/McCartney – Yesterday, George Gershwin – Summertime; I’ got rhythm, Minoru Miki – Time for Marimba, George Botsford – Black and White Rag, Errol Garner – Misty, Jerome Kern – All the things you are Thursday 17 February 2011 - Margaret Faultless – violin, Adrian Partington - piano J S Bach – Sonata in A major BWV 1015, Beethoven – Sonata in F major “Spring”, Op 24, Elgar – Sonata in E minor, Op 82, Bartok – Roumanian Folk Dances Thursday 17 March 2011 - Peter Adams - celloJ S Bach – Cello Suite no 3 in C major, BWV 1009, Gordon Jacob – Cello Serenade, Britten – Cello Suite no 3, Op 87 Thursday 14 April 2011 - Hayley Savage and Dimitris Dekavallas – Guitars J S Bach - Movements from Lute Suite BWV 997, Andante from Sonata BWV 1034 (arr Russell), Nicholas Maw - Music of Memory, Hayley Savage - Double Helix, Coloured Strings, Dodecaphoniuca, Piazzolla - Tango Suite 2009 - 2010
80th Anniversary Season
A celebratory season which paid tribute to English musicians past and present; also linking with biographical films of composers at Gloucester Guildhall, introduced by the director Tony Palmer
and exhibitions by English artists at
Gallery@the Guild - Chipping Campden, Fosse Gallery - Stow-on-the-Wold,
Winds of Change Gallery - Winchcombe and Taurus Crafts - Lydney
Films made and introduced by the distinguished director Tony Palmer at Gloucester Guildhall were as follows: "Toward the Unknown Region" - Malcolm Arnold, "A Time There Was" - Benjamin Britten, " At the Haunted End of the Day" - William Walton
Thursday 15 October, 2009 - Zephyr
Holst Wind Quintet Op 14 in Ab major
Cecilia McDowell Winter Music
Paul Patterson Westerly Winds Op 84
Gilbert Vinter Two Miniatures
John McCabe Postcards for Wind Quintet
Malcolm Arnold Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet
Norman Hallam Dance Suite
Thursday 19 November, 2009 - Angela Brownridge - Celebrity Piano Recital
Leighton Sonatina no 1
Ireland The Towing Path, The Island Spell, Amberley Wild Brooks
Whettam Night Music
John White Sonata no 1
Cyril Scott Lotus Land
Leighton Five Studies
Thursday 14 January 2010 - The Bridge Quartet
Purcell Fantasia
Bridge String Quartet no 4
Delius Late Swallows
Twigg Phantasy Variations on a Theme of Haydn-world premiere
Britten String Quartet no 1 in D major, Op 25
Thursday 25 February 2010 - Saint Cecilia Singers
John Sanders My beloved spake
Parry Songs of Farewell - numbers 1, 3 and 5
Britten Five Flower Songs Op 47
Finzi Seven Poems of Robert Bridges Op 17
Arr. Rutter Five Traditional Songs
Saturday 27 March 2010 - The Christa Quartet with James Bolam MBE and Susan Jameson
"In Gloucestershire"
A snapshot of Gloucestershire life as portrayed in the words of Gloucestershire poets and writers and in the music of Herbert Howells' string quartet "In Gloucestershire". Written and produced by Christine Talbot-Cooper.
Thursday 15 April 2010 - Roderick Williams - baritone, Andrew West - piano
Songs by Vaughan Williams, Parry, Ireland, Gurney, Howells, Finzi and John Sanders. This was a special concert which concluded our 80th anniversary season, bringing an audience from all corners of the country and which included the world premiere of a song cycle based on the Gloucestershire poets, "The Pine Boughs Past Music", Opus 39, commissioned by Gloucester Music Society from by Ian Venables
2008-2009 The 79th season celebrated the inspiration of two great cities, Vienna and Paris, and the centenary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen, also paying tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams on the fiftieth anniversary of his death. Thursday 16 October 2008 - English Ayres Holst Four mediaeval songs Vaughan Williams Six folk song arrangements Anon In Wilderness Robert Johnson As I walked forth Henry Cary The lady’s lamentation for the loss of Senesino Vaughan Williams Two Shakespearean songs Bliss Sea Love Vaughan Williams Song Cycle - Along the Field
Thursday 20 November 2008 - The Emerald Ensemble Piazzolla Movements from "Four Seaons of Buenos Aires" Bartok Contrasts Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time
Thursday 22 January 2009 – Eurico Pereira (guitar) “Discovering the music of Sor” Sor Grand Solo op 9 Walton Bagatelles Sor Little Stories Ponce Thème Variée et Final Pereira O Idílio de Évora op 10 Sor Sonata op 25
Thursday 19 February 2009 - English Piano Trio “The Viennese Tradition” Haydn Trio in C, Hob XV21 Beethoven Trio in C minor, Op 1 no 3 Schubert Trio in B flat, D898
Thursday 19 March 2009 – The Heath Quartet Webern Langsamer Satz (1905) Berg Lyric Suite Schubert String Quartet no 14, D810 in D minor "Death and the Maiden"
2007 - 2008 A celebration of music and musicians from Eastern Europe. Also planned as an 80th birthday tribute to Graham Whettam but became a celebration of the composer's life after his death just one month before his 80th birthday.
Thursday 11 October 2007 - Goldstone and Clemmow Duo Brahms - Hungarian Dances, Whettam - Ballade Hebraique, Gorb - Yiddish Dances, Whettam - Fantasy, Dvorak - Symphony no 9 in E minor "New World"
Thursday 8 November 2007 - The Skampa Quartet with Laurene Durantel (double bass) Haydn - String Quartet Op 76 no 5, Janacek - String Quartet no 2 in D "Intimate Letters", Dvorak - Double Bass Quintet in G Op 77
Thursday 10 January 2009 - Kodaly String Quartet Haydn - String Quartet Op 54 no 1, Bartok - String Quartet no 5, Kodaly - String Quartet Op 2 no 1
Thursday 14 February 2009 - Angela Brownridge Beethoven - Sonata in F, Op 57 "Appassionata", Debussy - Estampes, Gershwin - Three Preludes, Chopin - Polonaises: Op 26 no 1, Op 71 no 2, Op 53, Scherzo in B flat minor, Op 31
Thursday 13 March 2008 – The Atrium String Quartet Mozart - String Quartet in B flat K589, Shostakovich - String Quartet in F sharp No 7, Op 108, Nurymov - String Quartet no 2 "In memory of Indira Ghandi", Borodin - String Quartet no 1 in A 2006 – 2007
The 78th season celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart and the centenary of the birth of Shostakovich Thursday 12 October 2006 - The Fujita Piano Trio Mozart - Piano Trio in C, K548, Shostakovich - Piano Trio no 2 in E minor, Op 67, Smetana - Piano Trio in G minor, Op 15 Thursday 30 November 2006 – Donald Maxwell (baritone) with Rebecca Rudge (soprano) and Eleanor Meynell (piano) A varied programme ranging from operatic solos and duets to songs by Flanders and Swann.
Thursday 8 February 2007 – The Oriel Singers Music by Bach, Elgar, Howells, Frank Martin, James Macmillan and Ward Swingle
Thursday 8 March 2007 – Academia Wind Quintet Prague
Mozart - Divertimenti K270, Ibert - Trois Pièces Brèves, Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite arr Pok, Wind Quintets by Reicha, Pavel Haas and Danzi
Thursday 19 April 2007 – The Carducci Quartet – with Wesley Duggan Haydn - String Quartet Op 50 no 6, Shostakovich String Quartet no 9 Op 117, Mozart -Clarinet Quintet
2005 – 2006
The 76th season celebrated the glorious heritage of English music, combining this with some treasures from Spain.
Thursday 20 October 2005 – The Deakin Piano Trio
Frank Bridge - Phantasy Trio, Turina - Circulo for Piano Trio, Mendelssohn - Piano Trio in D minor, Op 49, plus violin and cello solos from England and Spain
Thursday 24 November 2005 – Noise of Minstrels Music from the 16th century performed on a variety of period instruments
Thursday 12 January 2006 – María Garzón A piano recital featuring music by the Spanish composers Soler, Albeniz, Rodrigo, Yague and Granados plus piano music by Elgar
Thursday 2 February 2006 – Ruth Waterman (violin) and Florian Uhlig (piano) Mozart - Sonata in E minor K304, Bach - Unaccompanied Sonata no 3 in C BWV 1005, Prokofiev - Sonata no 2 in D Op 94a
Thursday 16 February 2006 – 51 Strings: Katherine Thomas (harp), David Powell (cello) A programme of music from England and Spain
Thursday 23 March 2006 – The Cappella Singers A programme of sacred and secular music from renaissance Spain to modern day Gloucester
2004 – 2005
75th anniversary season: The Gloucester legacy – a celebration of English music and musicians including a tribute to Herbert Sumsion, founder of Gloucester Music Society. The series was in memory of the late Dr John Sanders OBE, who worked tirelessly for the Society for over thirty years.
Thursday 28 October 2004 – Voice, Violin and Virtuosity – Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Nigel Foster (piano) Music by Purcell, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Julian Anderson, Elgar, Rawsthorne and Ivor Gurney, including the world première of songs by William Alwyn
Thursday 18 November 2004 – The Montpellier String Trio Music by Mozart, Beethoven, Finzi, Robert Simpson and Colin Twigg
Thursday 27 November 2004 – The Lichnowsky Piano Trio Music by Malcolm Arnold, Herbert Sumsion, John Ireland and Malcolm Lipkin
Saturday 4 December 2004 – Celebrity Recital by Ian Brown
Music by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel and Liszt
Thursday 24 February 2005 – The Elgar Chorale Music by Parry, Elgar, Sumsion, Finzi, and Vaughan Williams
Thursday 24 March 2005 – Oboeworks Music by Vanhal, Britten, McGarr, Schubert and Francaix plus the world première of the Oboe Quartet by John Marsh
2003 – 2004
The 74th season was a celebration of French music by leading French performers and interpreters.
Thursday 16 October 2003 – The Feinstein Ensemble Music by Rameau, Leclair, Telemann, Handel and Marin Marais
Thursday 13 November 2003 – Quatuor Parisii with Ashley Wass Quartets by Haydn and Debussy plus the Piano Quintet by Vierne
Thursday 12 February 2004 – Peter Bradley-Fulgoni Piano recital including works by Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg,, Debussy and Ravel
Thursday 4 March 2004 – Andrew Nethsingha A recital on Gloucester Cathedral organ of music by Franck, Vierne, Langlais, Alain, Lefébre-Wély, Messiaen, Demessieux and Dupré
Thursday 25 March 2004 – Ensemble à Vent Paris-Bastille Wind music by Mozart, Baccri, Bozza and Schultz performed by a superb French wind ensemble
2002 – 2003
The 73rd season featured a celebration of Russian music by leading Russian performers and interpreters, and the commissioning and world première of a Piano Trio by Graham Whettam Thursday 10 October 2002 – Olga Tverskaya A fortepiano recital including music by Tchaikovsky, Laskovsky, Field and Glinka
Thursday 7 November 2002 – Yuri Kalnits (violin) with Jeremy Limb (piano) Music by Schnittke, Schedrin, Glazounov, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Mussorgsky
Thursday 9 January 2003 – The Rubio Quartet Quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich and Borodin
Thursday 20 February 2003 – The Israel Piano Trio Trios by Schubert and Tchaikovsky plus a specially commissioned trio by Graham Whettam celebrating his 75th year.
Thursday 20 March 2003 – The Premiere Brass Quintet with Stephen Cutting (trumpet) Music by Bach, Albinoni, Tchaikovsky, Bohme, Britten, Rimsky-Korsakov, Evald, Horowitz and Berlin.
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