Concerts & Tickets

the Olivier Hall

Upcoming events

  • Sunday 6th October - 6pm

    Antoine Préat - Piano

    Fauré - Three Songs without Words

    Rameau - Suite en sol (excerpts)

    Debussy - Images Livre 2

    Haydn - Sonata in B minor

    Prokofiev - Sarcasms

    French pianist Antoine Préat peforms a dazzling programme of French music from his forthcoming CD. Fauré’s exquisite Songs without Words are paired with Rameau’s lively Suite en Sol and Debussy’s uniquely colurful Images. Haydn’s Sonata in B minor, poised but full of drama, brings an Austrian flavour to the programme, and Préat concludes the evening with Prokofiev’s electrifying Sarcasms.

  • Thursday 28th November - 8pm

    Alice Neary - cello and Viv McLean - piano

    Beethoven - Sonata in A major op 69

    Nadia Boulanger - Three Pieces

    Franck - Sonata for cello and piano

    In a programme of favourites, Alice Neary and Viv McLean perform Beethoven’s A major cello sonata, composed in 1808 - the same year as his 5th and 6th Symphonies and 4th piano concerto. Nadia Boulanger’s atmospheric Three Pieces transport us to 1914 Paris, and the evening concludes with Franck’s glorious Sonata, composed as a wedding gift for the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.