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Registered Charity
No.1075787 |
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| Click Concert Dates for details: |
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The London Chamber Music Society at Kings Place |
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| ‘… a unique and historic achievement… the vision and tradition of this great institution which is still being carried on ...’ |
Sir John Barbirolli, writing on the Concerts in 1969 |
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The superb new concert hall at Kings Place - the first in London for 25 years – has opened an exciting new chapter for the London Chamber Music Society, which can trace its origins to Victorian music making in London in the 1870s, and the regular Sunday Concerts that developed at South Place and then the Conway Hall from 1929. |
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The inheritance of the Sunday Concerts is special, and our Concert Series aims to continue that rich legacy - which has long been part of the musical life-blood of the capital - by bringing the very best classical chamber music to London audiences at affordable prices.
The list of famous artists and ensembles appearing through the years reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of music history, and includes Henry Wood, Frank Bridge, Albert Sammons, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Goosens, Ysaye, Percy Grainger, Primrose, Harriet Cohen, Myra Hess, John Ireland and many more. |
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The Sacconi Quartet, with composer Robin Holloway |
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Raphael Wallfisch, John York, Philippe Graffin |
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Britain’s most celebrated string quartets have regularly appeared in the Series, from the Brosa and Amadeus to the Allegri, Lindsay and Chilingirian Quartets. Our first season in our new home has been a great success, with 36 wonderful concerts, many of them to full houses. To mark this important new beginning for the LCMS, we continue our theme of celebrating some of the best British chamber music for strings and also in commissioning new chamber works. |
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To follow last season’s LCMS commission of a new piece by Thea Musgrave, this year’s commission is for a new string quartet by James Francis Brown, which will be premiered by the Badke Quartet on May 16th 2010.
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It should be another great season: I look forward to seeing you at the concerts.
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Peter Fribbins Artistic Director |
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... a recent review about Peter Fribbins and the LCMS |
'Since the appointment of Dr Peter Fribbins, composer, teacher and administrator, as the society's artistic director more than two years ago, there has been a wind of change and shift from the almost monolithic programming of the string quartet repertoire.
But whether all its members and patrons have embraced the changes, it has never been, since its inception in 1887 in Whitechapel, a stick-in-the-mud organisation. George Bernard Shaw, in his guise as the critic Corno di Bassetto, wrote enthusiastically about the society's Sunday night concerts, which featured in late Victorian times the London premiere of Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence and memorial concerts for Brahms and, in 1891, the centenary of Mozart's death.
The LCMS, originally known as the Victorian People's Concerts Society, moved to South Place Chapel in Finsbury Park, and in 1929, under the name of South Place Concerts, to Conway Hall in Holborn, where with the support of the South Place Ethical Society, it still has its home.
But whatever the members' and patrons' viewpoint about the LCMS today, it cannot be denied that the Fribbins factor has resulted in more dynamic and adventurous programming that, as he says, "aims to preserve the heritage of chamber music, encourage new work and develop an entirely new and youthful audience for the society's concerts."
David Sonin, Ham & High, 2005 |
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