19/20 Season

Michaelmas Term

20th October: 1901st Concert
THE MEMBERS CONCERT

Featuring a variety of works performed by Balliol members and friends.

3rd November: 1902nd Concert
THE BALLIOL SOCIETY CONCERT
Kosmos Ensemble (Accordion, Violin and Viola)

Featuring a program inspired by Greek, Gypsy, Jewish, Japanese and tango music

17th November: 1903rd Concert
THE ERNEST WALKER CONCERT
Lucy Crowe (soprano) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

  • Schubert: Lieder
  • Strauss: Four Last Songs
  • Berg: Sieben Fruhe Lieder
  • Selection of English songs and folksongs

1st December: 1904th Concert
THE ERNEST WALKER CONCERT
Navarra Quartet (string quartet) – ‘Love and Death’

  • Turina: La Oracion del Torero (Bullfighter’s prayer) Op. 34
  • Kurtag: Ligatura Y
  • Puccini: Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) for string quartet
  • Kurtag: Ligatura – Messages to Frances-Marie
  • Janacek: String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
  • Kurtag: Arioso Interrotto (from Officium breve Op. 28)
  • Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Hilary Term

26th January: 1905th Concert
Endellion Quartet (string quartet)

  • Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18 No. 2
  • Bartok: String Quartet No. 6
  • Mendelssohn: String Quartet Op. 44 No. 2

9th February: 1906th Concert
THE MEMBERS’ CONCERT

Featuring a variety of works performed by Balliol members and friends.

23rd February: 1907th Concert
THE JOHN FARMER CONCERT
Reiko Fujisawa (piano) and Paul Ansdell (narrator)

  • Beethoven: 32 Variations in C minor WoO 80
  • Clementi: Sonata in B flat op. 24 no. 2
  • Czerny: Etude no. 12 in D minor op. 740
  • Schubert: Impromptu no. 3 in G flat D. 899
  • Liszt: Etude d’Execution Transcendante no. 10
  • Beethoven: Bagatelle in A minor no. 25 (Fur Elise)
  • Beethoven: Sonata in A flat op. 110
  • Wagner arr. Liszt: Isoldens Liebestod

8th March: 1908th Concert
Mozart Piano Quartet

  • Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat op. 47
  • Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor op. 25

Trinity Term

Concerts in Trinity Term 2020 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.