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This concert explores works by composers who fled for their lives from the Nazis to the USA. All works programmed were written during the composers' years in diaspora, reflecting upon their attempt at assimilation, their yearning for a lost homeland and, sometimes, protest.

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 3 Shepardic Songs
Ernst Krenek Clarinet Trio op.108
Franz Waxman Memories of Childhood
Darius Milhaud String Quartet no.13
Ernst Toch Adagio for clarinet & piano
Arnold Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

Concert will be preceded by a talk given by talk by Dr Michael Haas, Senior Researcher at Exil Arte Zentrum in Vienna, Austria.

Giuseppe Verdi Overture from La Forza del Destino

Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor

Gustav Holst The Planets

Programme tba

J S Bach Sonata in E major
Beethoven Sonata in C minor Op 30 no 2
Lili Boulanger Nocturne, D’un matin du printemps
César Frank Sonata in A major for Violin & Piano

Programme to include:

J S Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988

J S Bach Sonata in E major
Beethoven Sonata in C minor Op 30 no 2
Josef Suk Four Pieces for Violin & Piano
Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata no 3 in D minor

J S Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988

J S Bach Sonata in E major
Beethoven Sonata in C minor Op 30 no 2
Josef Suk Four Pieces for Violin & Piano
Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata no 3 in D minor

J S Bach - Sonata in E minor BWV 1023

Johannes Brahms - Sonata no 3 in D minor

Chloe Hanslip (violin), Danny Driver (piano)

Karol Szymanowski Nocturne & Tarantella Op 28
César Franck Sonata for Violin & Piano in A major
Henryk Wieniawski Fantasie Brillante on themes from 'Faust' (Gounod)

Errollyn Wallen Mighty River
Peter Maxwell Davies Lullabye for Lucy, op. 99
Lyell Cresswell Piano Concerto No.3 (European Première)

Sir James MacMillan Tu es Petrus
Lyell Cresswell Pater Columba
Peter Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

Programme to include 

Beethoven Sonata for Violin & Piano in A Op 47 ("Kreutzer"/"Bridgetower")

Beethoven Piano Concerto no 5

Beethoven Symphony no 9

Programme to include:

Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture

Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 K467

Dvořák Symphony no 8 in G

Programme to include:

Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture

Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 K467

Dvořák Symphony no 8 in G

Programme to include:

J S Bach Concerto for Four Keyboards
Saint-Saëns Variations on a theme of Beethoven Op 33
Jonathan Dove Between Friends
and other works

Saint-Saëns Variations on a Theme by Beethoven

Schumann Six Canonic Studies for Two Pianos

Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Op 45

Programme to be announced