12th Young Musicians' Festival
24th-26th November 2005

at Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, Halifax, West Yorkshire

Programme

Thursday 24th November, 7.30pm

Song Recital

with Fiona Scott and Laurie Ashworth, sopranos
and Simon Lane, piano

Royal Northern College of Music

Two of the RNCM’s leading sopranos, with their prize-winning accompanist, present a fascinating porgramme which follows the development of the German Lied from Schubert, to Mahler and Berg, and which also includes a 1937 song-cycle by Britten, one of the few British composers of that time familiar with the works of Mahler and Berg.

• Schubert Lieder
• Berg 7 Early Songs
• Britten On This Island
• Mahler from Das Knaben Wunderhorn

About Fiona Scott, Laurie Ashworth and Simon Lane

Friday 25th November, 7.30pm

Chris Wright Piano Trio

Julia Rumley, violin
Chris Wright, cello
Jue Huang, piano

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

An exciting programme by one of the GSMD's top ensembles, in which a rarely-performed work – Schnittke's powerful Piano Trio of 1992 (an arrangement of his earlier string trio) – is framed by works by two of the great exponents of chamber music.

• Haydn Trio in E major, Hb HV:28
• Schnittke Piano Trio
• Mendelssohn Trio in D minor, op.49

About Julia Rumley, Chris Wright and Jue Huang

Saturday 26th November, 7.30pm

Charlotte Scott, violin
and James Baillieu, piano

Royal Academy of Music

An immensely talented duo, with a programme which combines the familiar with the less familiar and which concludes with one of the best-loved of all violin sonatas.

• Mozart Violin Sonata in A major K 526
• Prokofiev Five Melodies
• César Franck Violin Sonata in A major

About Charlotte Scott and James Baillieu