Three York Late Music concerts coming-up this weekend

From Bach to Bartok, Brahms to Bryars; Webern, Pärt, Farrenc and Debussy. New works, old works, York-based composers and even a A York Suite ‘Eboracum’  by Richard Stoker.

Performers: David Hammond (piano), Lesley Schatzberger (clarinet), Nicola Tait Baxter (cello), Paul Nicholson (piano), Savva Zverev (violin) and Sid Ramachander (piano).

Three concerts that define what York Late Music is all about.

David Hammond (piano): Friday 5 April, 1.00pm

William Baines: Pictures of Light I Drift-light II Bursting Flames III Pool-lights

Steve Crowther: Michael Dances Ruth Karn: The Loneliness of Now Gavin Bryars: Ramble on Cortona

Richard Stoker: A York Suite ‘Eboracum’  

Vale of York – chorale prelude Micklegate – interlude 1 Minster and the Five Sisters – lullaby River Ouse – scherzo Bootham Bar – interlude 2 Station and Railway Museum Castle and Clifford’s Tower – nocturne

Matt Dibble: Prelude in B minor David Hammond: Variations on a Scottish jig   

William Baines: Tides I The Lone Wreck II Goodnight to Flamboro’

Amabile Clarinet Trio: Lesley Schatzberger (clarinet), Nicola Tait Baxter (cello) & Paul Nicholson (piano) - Saturday 6th April, 1:00pm

Louise Farrenc: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 44  Johannes Brahms: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op 114  Steve Crowther: Transcriptions from Morris Dances (1st perf.)

Savva Zverev (violin) & Sid Ramachander (piano): Saturday 6th April, 7:30pm

Bach: Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor Debussy: Préludes

1) Canope (Egyptian Canopic Jars)  2) Les Collines d’Anacapri (The Hills of Anacapri  3) La Fille Avec aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)  4) La Puerto del Vino (The Moorish gate near Granada’s Alhambra Palace)  5) Ondine (Mermaid) 

Webern:  Four Pieces for Violin and Piano (Op. 7) Lutoslawski: Subito for Violin and Piano

Bartok: Sonata for Solo Violin   Pärt: Spiegel um Spiegel Franz Waxman:  Carmen Fantasy

There will be a preconcert talk by composer Nick Williams at 6.45pm with a complimentary glass of wine or juice.

Please visit York Late Music for tickets and further information.