Huddersfield Music Society (HMS) is a Registered Charity which was formed in 1918. It promotes seven high quality chamber music concerts from September to April each season.
Huddersfield Music Society (HMS) is a Registered Charity which was formed in 1918. It promotes seven high quality chamber music concerts from October to April each season. Concerts are held monthly on Monday evenings in St Paul’s Hall at the University of Huddersfield. HMS promotes performances by established professionals and newly emerging musicians. Some of the biggest names in classical music have performed for HMS in the last century, including pianists Solomon, Louis Kentner, Clifford Curzon, Angela Hewitt and Benjamin Grosvenor, singers such as Peter Pears (with Benjamin Britten), Kathleen Ferrier, Emma Kirkby with the Rose Consort of Viols, and Roderick Williams; instrumentalists including the Amadeus String Quartet, the Pražák, Ysaÿe and Takács String Quartets, the Lindsays and the Carducci Quartet. HMS is pleased to work with the Making Music organisation and with the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the City Music Foundation, and the Young Classical Artists Trust.
Chabrier 3 Romantic Waltzes.
Bax The Poisoned Fountain
Satie ‘Morceaux en forme de poire’
Saint-Saëns Scherzo
Holst The Planets Suite
Roger Coull & Philip Gallaway (violins), Jonathan Barritt (viola), Nicholas Roberts (cello)
Mozart String Quartet No 22 in B flat K 589
Shostakovich String Quartet No 4 in D major Op 83
Beethoven String Quartet No 8 in E minor Op 59 No 2 (Razumovsky)
Beth Stone (flute), Chris Vettraino (oboe), Rennie Sutherland (clarinet) Flo Plane (bassoon), Johan Stone (horn)
György Ligeti Six Bagatelles (1953)
Valerie Colman Rubispheres for flute, clarinet and bassoon (2015)
Pavel Haas Wind Quintet Op 10 (1929)
George Gershwin Porgy and Bess Suite (Extracts)
Carl Nielsen Wind Quintet Op 43 (1923)
Colin Twigg & Catherine Schofield (violins), Michael Schofield (viola), Lucy Wilding (cello)
Mozart Quartet in D minor K421
Arnold Cooke Quartet No 2
Brahms Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1
Robert Plane (clarinet), Rachel Roberts (viola), Tim Horton (piano)
Max Bruch Selection from 8 Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano, Op 83
Huw Watkins Speak Seven Seas
Robert Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op 132
Rebecca Clarke Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale
Mozart Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat major K. 498, (Kegelstatt)
Martyn Jackson (violin), Will Newell (violin), Jane Atkins (viola), Nathaniel Boyd (cello)
Beethoven String Quartet No 7 in F major Op 59 No 1 (Razumovsky)
Joey Roukens Visions at Sea
Beethoven String Quartet No 9 in C major Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky)
Janáček String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)
Haydn String Quartet in E-flat major, Hob.III:38 (Joke)
J Montgomery Strum for string quartet (2006, rev. 2012)
Dvorak String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op. 96 (American)