Welcome to Milngavie Music Club’s 2018-2019 Season!

Our International Concert Series expands to eight concerts this season. It’s especially rich in youthful talent, with a line-up of three fantastic string quartets, two stunning instrumental duos, a superb young singer and a solo guitarist of breathtaking brilliance. To top it all a special event focusing on the music of Benjamin Britten, featuring some of our own, home-grown young musicians alongside experienced p ro fe s s i ona l s . Wor ld -c la s s performances and the informal ambience and fine acoustic of Cairns Church have attracted more and more music lovers to our concerts – why not make a regular monthly date with us this winter?

Ticket includes interval coffee, tea and biscuits

Friday 12 October 2018, 7.30 pm in Cairns Church

This young German quartet are taking the chamber music world by storm. Playing from memory (and standing, the cellist apart), their thrilling dynamism and total commitment is winning them plaudits around the world. The Bartók-like energy of Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s early quartet is an ideal vehicle for the Vision Quartet’s virtuosity and they close with Beethoven’s great A minor quartet, whose famous “song of thanksgiving to God” at its centre is one of the most profoundly moving movements in all chamber music.

VISION STRING QUARTET

Ligeti String Quartet No 1 Métamorphoses NocturnesSchubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op 132

Photo by Tim Klöcker

Thrilling and electrifying…[they received] a minutes-long standing ovation

Fränkische Nachrichten

Friday 16 November 2018, 7.30 pm in Cairns Church

At 26, Edinburgh-born Sean Shibe is already recognised as one of the leading guitarists of his generation. The first guitarist to be selected as a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, his recent solo CD was Gramophone magazine’s ‘Editor’s Choice’. This programme demonstrates the huge range of colours he can conjure from his instrument, from Jacobean lute music to the vibrant Spanish music of Mompou via Bach and Australian composer Brett Dean.

Photo by Kaupo Kikkas

SEAN SHIBE guitar

Scottish lute music (from Balcarres, Rowallan, Straloch and Wemyss MS) JS Bach Lute Suite in E minor, B WV 996Brett Dean Three Capriccios after GoyaFederico Mompou Suite Compostelana

Shibe is another Julian Bream, or something close. His playing unites finesse and poetry….

The Sunday Times

Genius, a term which should rarely be applied to performing musicians, but at 25 he has it.

The Arts Desk

Friday 14 December 2018, 7.30 pm in Cairns Church

The outstanding Azerbaijani cellist Jamal Aliyev won last year’s Young Concert Artists’ Trust competition at London’s Wigmore Hall and also made his debut at the BBC Proms. The intense passion and verve of his playing are reflected in his choice of richly Romantic music in this exciting programme.

Photo by Kaupo Kikkas

JAMAL ALIYEV cello JÂMS COLEMAN piano

Beethoven Cello Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1Bloch From Jewish Life: Prayer, Supplication, Jewish Song Ligeti Sonata for solo cello Frank Bridge Sonata for cello and piano

Thoughtful, expansive readings of the two great Soviet cello sonatas from a young artist possessed of enviable technique and a rich broad palette.

Classical Music Magazine

Friday 11 January 2019, 7.30 pm in Cairns Church

NAVARRA STRING QUARTET

Peteris Vasks String Quartet No 4Ravel String Quartet in F majorSchubert String Quartet in D minor Death and the Maiden

The Navarras are one of Britain’s most respected string quartets, admired for the combination of elegance and dramatic flair that characterises their performances. Both are qualities that will be very much to the fore in the Mediterranean warmth of Ravel’s quartet and the breathtaking emotional roller coaster of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden. Latvian composer Peteris Vasks’ highly individual music draws on the folk music and winter landscape of his country but also reflects the influence of Shostakovich.

…their sound was one of very mature instrumental mastery. The players showed with precision and firmness the joyful mixture of intimacy and openness.

ClassiqueNews (France)

Photo by Sussie Ahlburgi

Friday 8 February 2019, 7.30 pm in Cairns Church

Adam Walker’s last appearance here is still remembered as one of the most sensational displays of instrumental brilliance we have ever experienced, and we expect more of the same! A BBC Young Musician finalist at 16, he became Principal Flute in the London Symphony Orchestra aged only 21 and is now in demand as soloist with leading orchestras, described by Classic FM as ‘one of the top 5 international flautists’. This delightful programme reaches its climax in an arrangement of César Franck’s famous Violin Sonata.

Walker, playing with staggering virtuosity and charm, kept the audience on the edge of their seats throughout, and brought the house down at the end.

The Guardian

Photo by Kaupo Kikkas

ADAM WALKER flute JAMES BAILLIEU piano

Reinecke Undine Sonata Op 167Widor Suite Op 34Schumann Three Romances Op 94Franck Sonata in A major (arr. for flute and piano)

Friday 1 March 2019, 7.30 pm in Cairns Church

Described by The Guardian as a ‘fast-rising British talent’ and featured as a ‘rising star’ in BBC Music Magazine, award-winning mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley sings on concert, opera and recital stages in the UK and internationally, from English National Opera and the Wigmore Hall to Vienna’s Musikverein. She and Emma Abbate perform Schumann’s great Frauenliebe und –leben as the centre-piece of this delectable selection of songs.

….delivered with a superbly placed sense of drama…she was right under the skin of the character in Schumann’s evergreen Frauenliebe und -Leben, using her endlessly pliable voice to maximum effect.

The Scotsman

Photo by Kaupo Kikkas

ANNA HUNTLEY mezzo soprano EMMA ABBATE piano

Schumann Frauenliebe und –leben Britten Cabaret SongsBrahms Four Songs and English songs by Sullivan, Vaughan

Williams, Eric Coates and others

Friday 5 April 2019, 7.30 pm in Cairns Church

CONSONE QUARTET

Boccherini String Quartet in F minor Op 26 No 6Mendelssohn String Quartet in E flat Op 12 Boccherini String Quartet in G minor Op 26 No 2 Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op 74 Harp

This young London-based, prize-winning ensemble are already developing a high profile for their dedication to exploring the Classical and early Romantic string quartet repertoire on period instruments. Haydn’s contemporary Boccherini was incredibly prolific, composing nearly 100 string quartets, but his music is unfailingly inventive and the two short quartets here are no exception. Mendelssohn’s Beethoven-influenced early quartet and Beethoven’s magnificent ‘Harp’ quartet complete a mouth-watering programme.

Impeccable...a group to watch.The York Press

Photo by G C Steedman

Friday 26 April 2019, 8.00 pm in Cairns Church (please note start time)

FRIDAY AFTERNOONSEast Dunbartonshire Children’s ChorusChildren from ED Primary SchoolsEast Dunbartonshire Young Musicians McOpera Ensemble

Benjamin Britten: Friday Afternoons (1935)plus instrumental music by Britten, Holst and others

In 1935, Britten wrote his delightful Friday Afternoons, children’s songs for the school where his brother was headmaster. Since the Britten Centenary in 2013, these songs have been the catalyst for a wonderful international initiative encouraging young people to sing. Thousands of children, not just in Britain but across the globe, have learned the songs and been inspired to create new ones of their own. Our own East Dunbartonshire Young Musicians 2019 project culminates in this concert, bringing together local children, talented young instrumentalists and the professionals of McOpera performing some of Britten’s songs, a new song composed for the occasion, and music for strings by Britten, Holst and others. A joyous closing event for our 2018-19 season.

Annual General Meeting of the Club at 6.45pmChildren’s Choir Photo by John Hendry

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International Concert Series

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Single tickets for opening concert (12 October) on sale from 3 September

Summer Music Weekend at Bearsden Cross Church June 1-2 2019

Programme and ticket details to be announced in Spring 2019

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Our VenueCairns Church (G62 8AW) is 5 minutes walk from Milngavie Rail Station. Trains leave Glasgow Central Low Level every half hour (journey time 24 minutes), via Partick, Hyndland and Anniesland. After the concert there is a half hourly service until late.

Cairns Church has a small car park and there is also on-street parking, with larger car parks at Milngavie Town Hall and at Milngavie Station. Entry to the church is through the main entrance in the modern extension and is fully accessible by wheelchair users.

Refreshments (tea, coffee, wine and soft drinks) are available at the interval of all concerts.

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