SSEMK Artists-in Residence
A Musical Offering
Trio in D minor - Buxtehude
Paris Quartet in E minor - Telemann
The Musical Offering - J.S. Bach

The Bach Players return in yet a different guise this year to perform, as the highlight of the evening, Bach’s extraordinary Musical Offering, contrasted by a Quartet by his contemporary Telemann, and a Trio by his mentor, Buxtehude. The Musical Offering, BWV 1079, a late work, is a dazzling collection of canons and fugues and other styles, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great, himself a flute player, to whom they are dedicated. “They play with flawless technique and beautiful tone. Highly recommended!”

Saturday 13th October 2018 - 7:30pm
Tickets £20 / £17.50 / £15
Early Bird 10% Discounted Season Ticket if ALL 5 concerts booked before 8th September 2018
 

Ceruleo
Niall Ashdown as Mr. Henry Purcell 

Burying the Dead, directed by Thomas Guthrie, is a new Purcell theatre show for the 21st century which takes the audience on a fictional journey inside the head of composer Henry Purcell. Purcell is in his final illness, suffering from feverish dream-like hallucinations in which the past, present and fantasy collide, and his songs take on a life of their own, moving from the ‘theatre of his mind’ to the actual theatre and beyond! The show deals with various issues from his life, including his experience with the Great Fire of London and the Plague, as well as his relationships with his wife and actresses in the theatre.

Saturday 17th November 2018 - 7pm
Tickets £20 / £17.50 / £15
Early Bird 10% Discounted Season Ticket if ALL 5 concerts booked before 8th September 2018

Reader: The Dean of Canterbury
The Very Reverend Robert Willis, BA, DD, DCL, DL
Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross
Franz Joseph Haydn
The Poems of Robert Herrick & John Donne

“Impeccable...A group to watch.”  Following their triumphant recital at SSEMK with clarinettist Jane Booth, we are delighted the Consone Quartet return in the closing days of Lent, to join The Dean of Canterbury to perform a specially devised programme by SSEMK’s Artistic Director, intermingling the emotional movements of Haydn’s Seven Last Words, with the spoken words of Herrick & Donne. This concert will be given without an interval and will be preceded by a reception with refreshments and canapes.

Saturday 13th April 2019
Reception from 6:30pm
Concert 7:30pm 

Tickets £22 / £20 / £16
Early Bird 10% Discounted Season Ticket if ALL 5 concerts booked before 8th September 2018

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet in G minor, K.478     
Duo Sonata in G major for Violin & Viola, K.423
Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations for Violoncello & fortepiano
on ‘Bei Männern’ from Die Zauberflöte
Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.16

Ensemble DeNOTE’s musical approach returns to the roots of eighteenth-century performance style, exploring the sound world of period instruments and integrating the latest scholarly research with a passion for live musical communication, represented in this concerts with works by the two greatest exponents at the turn of the century. ‘Gorgeously subtle colouring’ (The Guardian). ‘Superbly inflected performances – outstanding’ (The Observer)

Saturday 18th May 2019 - 7:30pm
Tickets £20 / £17.50 / £15
Early Bird 10% Discounted Season Ticket if ALL 5 concerts booked before 8th September 2018