2019 Season Tickets on sale now!

Season tickets for our 2019 lunchtime series are available to purchase now for £120

For cheque payments, please click to download a booking form – AHC 2019 Booking Form A4

For online bookings please visit http://assemblyhouseclassical.eventbrite.com/

 

Thursday Jan 10 – Moriarty Wind Quintet

Thursday Feb 21 – Eusebius Quartet

Thursday Mar 28 – Burton (sax) / Zerafa (piano) – BBC Young Musician

Thursday Apr 25 – Piatti Quartet (string quartet)

Thursday Jun 13 – Ben Baker (violin)

Thursday Jul 25 – Pelleas Ensemble (harp/viola/flute)

Thursday Sep 12th – Lisa Cassidy (Soprano) & Somi Kim (piano)

Thursday Oct 3 – Fitzwilliam Quartet

Thursday Oct 31 – Anna Federova (piano)

Thursday Nov 14 – Calver (cello) & (piano) – BBC Young Musician

Thursday Dec 12 – Lauren Zhang (piano) – BBC Young Musician

All concerts start at 1:00 pm and are held in the music room of The Assembly House in Norwich

Please visit http://assemblyhouseclassical.eventbrite.com/ for more information on the individual listings

Tom Poster – Piano – Thursday October 25th

Don’t miss Pianist – Tom Poster this month at The Assembly House in Norwich!

Tom Poster is a musician whose skills and passions extend well beyond the conventional role of the concert pianist. In demand internationally as soloist and chamber musician across an unusually extensive repertoire, he has been described as:

a marvel, [who] can play anything in any style” (The Herald),
mercurially brilliant” (The Strad),
His sound is warm and beguiling… velvet-tipped sonority” Gramophoneand as having “a beautiful tone that you can sink into like a pile of cushions” (BBC Music).

Tickets available from: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tom-poster-piano-tickets-39167982490

or, for other ways to book please see: http://www.assemblyhouseclassical.co.uk/other-ways-to-book/

SPECIAL OFFER

Book all 4 remaining 2018 concerts for the total price of £40

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July 19th – A change to the advertised programme

Due to visa difficulties the New York based Zora String Quartet have been forced to cancel their UK tour which would have opened with the planned concert at The Assembly House on July 19th.

We are however very fortunate that the brilliant young Swiss pianist JEAN-SELIM ABDELMOULA has agreed to step in at short notice. Jean-Salim has already received many international piano prizes and is one of only two pianists selected by the András Schiff Performance Programme for Young Pianists at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. His programme will include Schubert’s Moments Musicaux as well as Beethoven: Sonata Op 110

All tickets purchased for the Zora String Quartet will of course still be valid and we are confident that you will be pleased with the replacement act, but if you do require a refund for any reason please don’t hesitate to get in touch – either by replying to this email or calling promoter – Iain Lowery on 07786940878.

How to book

If you have not yet booked tickets then you can do so online now at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jean-selim-abdelmoula-piano-tickets-39163241309

Alternatively, you can pay by cheque – made out to ‘Assembly House Classical’ and posted to ‘Assembly House Classical, 28 Leonards Street, Norwich, NR3 3BW‘ – Please include a note to say which of our forthcoming concerts you are booking for, together with a stamped addressed envelope OR your email address so we can get your tickets to you.

Tickets are £12 each.

Hope to see you on the 19th

February 15th – Alauda Quartet – Photos

Thanks to the amazing Alauda Quartet for a fantastic concert last week.

Programme information

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Quartet No17 in B-flat major k458 “The Hunt”

(i) Allegro vivace assai

(ii) Menuetto and Trio; Moderato

(iii) Adagio

(iv) Allegro assai

This is the fourth in a group of six quartets, composed in 1784 when

Mozart was 28, which he dedicated to Joseph Haydn, the master of

the string quartet and the composer, more than any other who brought

the form to prominence. Mozart was obviously out to impress the old man.

The title The Hunt was not Mozart’s idea but acquired the nickname

shortly after it’s appearance – presumably because of it’s first movement

6/8 rhythm featuring strong upbeats between tonic and dominant chords

reminiscent of the physical limitations of the hunting horns of the period.

 

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975)

Quartet No 8 in C minor Op 110

(i) Largo (ii) Allegro molto (iii) Allegretto

(iv) Largo (v) Largo

Shostakovich wrote this quartet in the space of three days in July 1960

after two traumatic events in his life – the first was the early symptoms

of a debilitating muscular disease which would eventually lead to his

death – and the second his immense struggle with the communist party.

It is dedicated to The Victims of Fascism and War a title which his

daughter thinks was imposed upon him by the Russian authorities and

others think was a self dedication. Certainly the whole work prominently

features the DSCH motif – Shostakovich’s musical signature – which also

features in his Cello Concerto, 10th Symphony and many other works and

it also contains quotations from his other compositions from 1st & 5th

symphonies to his opera Lady Macbeth.