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A new Past Concerts page now lists all the works performed and performers’ names, from the earliest concert for which a printed programme survives (Summer 1988) to the end of our 2011 season. Alternatively, click here for a downloadable file of this information in PDF format; the file will either open as a new on-screen page or be downloaded to your computer, depending on your own browser settings or preferences.

2012 season: full details now available

Overview

The 2012 season of Concerts at Cratfield, our twenty-fifth, opens on Sunday 8 July: as always, our season starts shortly after the Aldeburgh Festival ends. We offer six concerts on alternate Sundays, each at St Mary’s Church Cratfield at 3pm, so the season ends on Sunday 16 September. As the list of concerts, performers and composers below shows, our 2012 season aims for the breadth and variety which history suggests will appeal to our regular audience, as well as encourage newcomers.

We build our season, as always, on the solid rock of the string quartet, welcoming back the Badke Quartet to launch the season and inviting the promising Wu Quartet to play for us midway, as well as relishing the extra viola when the Iuventus give us the last concert of the season with a string quintet led by the sparkling Ruth Rogers violin. Ruth also brings Tom Hull to play the rarely heard but brilliant Weber clarinet quintet. We leave behind 2011′s fondness for Haydn, which lets Schubert and Shostakovich (back) in, and more Mozart than we had space for in 2011; and we introduce Peteris Vasks, a well established living composer from the Baltic, whose string quartets few are likely to have heard in concert in the UK.

Piano four hands (on this occasion our good friend Charles Owen and the equally brilliant Katya Apekisheva) reappears after a long gap. We also welcome back Jamie Walton cello and Danny Grimwood piano, this time in piano trio guise; and are delighted that our long-standing links with Andrew West piano and Mark Padmore’s regular appearances at Snape have together led to a song recital by this most thoughtful and eloquent of tenors, which in Cratfield style mixes the well-known, the not-well-known-enough and the brand-new.