CONCERTS

The Rose Street Quartet and Rose Street Ensemble frequently perform to audiences in and around Edinburgh to high acclaim. Our wide repertoire covers chamber music, string orchestra repertoire, and full orchestral works.

FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCES

Saturday 29th October 2011, 7.30pm

Rose Street Ensemble and very special guests
St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral, York Place, Edinburgh

Conductor: James Lowe
Organ: Simon Nieminski
Flute: Matthew Studdert-Kennedy
Tenor: Joseph Doody

Leighton: Veris Gratia, Op.6 - for strings, tenor, flute, choir and timpani
Poulenc: Organ Concerto - for rogan, strings and timpani
Part: Fratre - for single percussion and strings
Mozart: Church Sonata no. 15, K 328 - for organ and strings
Beethoven: Elegischer Gesang - for choir and strings

The Rose Street Ensemble present a programme of works for string orchestra and guests, to include Poulenc's Concerto for Organ and Strings with Cathedral organist Simon Nieminski and Kenneth Leighton's early work for tenor, flute, choir and strings Veris Gratia. Of the latter, a new performance edition has been created especially for this performance from hand-written manuscript provided by the composer's widow, and it is fairly certain that this is a Scottish premiere of the work. The music draws on lines from Helen Waddell's Medieval Latin lyrics, each of the the selected texts reflecting some aspect of spring.

RECENT PERFORMANCES

Saturday 11th December 2010, 7.30pm

Rose Street Ensemble with the Calton Consort
Conductor: Jason Orringe

Canongate Kirk

Macmillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross
Byrd: Motets

Saturday 11th December 2010, 7.30pm

Classics by Candlelight

Rose Street Quartet

Strathmiglo Village Hall, Fife

Programme:
a variety from our repertoire including some seasonal works from Handel, Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky and songs by Porter, Gershwin and Berlin
plus a number of our own festive arrangements

Tuesday 23rd February

Peter Liversidge - The Thrill of it All

Rose Street Quartet

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Schumann: String Quartet No. 3, Assai agitato

Saturday 12th December 2009, 7.30pm

Classics by Candlelight

Rose Street Quartet

Strathmiglo Village Hall, Fife

Grieg: Holberg Suite
Holst: St. Paul's Suite
songs by Gershwin, Porter et al., plus a number of our own festive arrangements

Sunday 13th December 2009, 7.0pm

Anstruther Choral Society Christmas Concert

Rose Street Quartet

Kilconquhar Parish Church, Fife

programme to include excerpts from:

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, The Messiah and others
Faure: Requiem
plus carols, and numerous other festive works!

Sunday 15th November 2009, 7.30pm

Forbesfest: Watson Forbes International Viola Competition

Rose Street Ensemble
Conductor: Robert Dick

Younger Hall, St. Andrews

Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher
Bartok: Viola Concerto
Walton: Viola Concerto

First prize was won by Daniel Palmizio.

Saturday 3rd October 2009, 7.30pm

Schubert Octet

Rose Street Ensemble
with Judy Dennis (alto), Joe Doody (tenor), and Simon Nieminski (piano)

St Andrew Blackadder Church, North Berwick
proceeds to the North Berwick Malawi Project

Schubert: Octet in F, D. 803
and selected Lieder including Der Wanderer, D. 489/493
Britten: Canticle II - Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51

Saturday 12th September 2009, 7.30pm

Songs, Letters and String Works of Émigré Composers

Rose Street Ensemble
Conductor: James Lowe - Leader: Liz Beeston - Readings by: Crawford Logan
Voices: Emma Morwood, Judy Dennis - Piano: Robin Hutt, Simon Smith

Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
Proceeds to War Child

Programme:

Gal: Serenade for String Orchestra, Op.46
Gal: 5 Songs for Middle Voice and Piano, Op. 33
Rachmaninov: selection from 14 songs, Op. 34 including Vocalise No. 14 (for Soprano & Piano)
Rachmaninov: Romance and Scherzo
Bartók: Hungarian Folk songs
Bartók: Divertimento for strings

"...a fantastic performance, something underscored by the fact that on listening this afternoon, the Mackerras disc [of the Bartok with the SCO] didn't quite seem to have the same energy."
Where's Runnicles (full review)

Saturday 1st August 2009, 7.30pm

Piano Quintets

Rose Street Quartet with Andy Johnston

Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84
Rachmaninov: Romance and Scherzo
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57

Canongate Kirk, Royal Mile, Edinburgh

Saturday 9th May 2009, 9.30pm

Nocturne (a Moon Landing)

Rose Street Quartet

Jupiter Artland, Bonnington House, Kirkliston

Debussy (arr. RSQ): Trois Nocturnes
Performances of our own specially commissioned arrangements of Debussy's Nocturnes (inspired by Whistler's 'Nocturne in Black and Gold The Falling Rocket') which form the basis and inspiration for Parker's subsequent spectacular work.

Sunday 8th March 2009, 4.30pm

Schubert and Haydn

Rose Street Quartet

St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh

Schubert: Overture in C minor, D8a
Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77 No. 1

Sunday 17th August 2008

Brahms: Piano Concerti Nos. 1 and 2

Rose Street Ensemble
Conductor: Robert Dick - Leader: Jackie Norrie
Soloist: Murray McLachlan

Greyfriars Kirk, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

"The Rose Street Ensemble... brought firm articulation to the music, holding enough in reserve to make the second concerto - with a thundering scherzo and lovely cello tone in the slow movement - sound even more rewarding than the first."

Conrad Wilson - the Herald (full review)

Friday 8th August 2008

Heinrich Schütz
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi
(Auferstehungshistoria oder Öster-Oratorium)

Sang Scule and Rose Street Quartet

With John Kitchen, continuo

Violin: Kate Miguda
Viola 1: Liz Ford
Viola 2: Rob Furze
Cello: Pete Harvey

St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral

Friday 1st August 2008

Music for voices and strings
Original works and tunes performed alongside their subsequent string orchestra developments

Rose Street Ensemble
Conductor: James Lowe - Leader: Liz Beeston

Viola: Jessica Beeston
Lute: Peter Cooke
Tenor: Henry Howard
Piano: Andrew Johnston
Soprano: Jessica Leary

Dowland: Pavane Lachrimae, If My Complaints Could Passions Move (Lute & Soprano)
Britten: Lachrymae (Reflections on a Song by Dowland) (solo viola and string orchestra)
Tchaikovsky: Songs for Children Op. 54 No. 5 (tenor & piano)
Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky (string orchestra)
Bach: Für deinen Thron tret ich hiermit (solo voices)
Hindemith: Trauermusik (solo viola and string orchestra)
Traditional: Romanian folk tunes (Bartok's original field recordings)
Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances (string orchestra)
Tallis: Third Psalter Tune (solo voices)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (string quartet and string orchestras)
Kilar: Orawa (string orchestra)

Canongate Kirk, Royal Mile, Edinburgh

In aid of the National Society for Epilepsy.

"The quality of playing and singing - ensemble, emotion and elan - was exemplary. The programme was a triumph of variety and, obviously, interconnectedness."

Stephen Johnston - Edinburgh

Saturday 2nd June, 2007

Elgar 15th Birthday Party Concert

Rose Street Ensemble
Conductor: James Lowe - Leader: Liz Beeston

Solo quartet:
Liz Bailey
Fiona Stephen
Liz Ford
Pete Harvey

Elgar: Serenade
Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies
Sibelius: Rakastava
Elgar: Elegy
Sibelius: Andante Festivo
Grieg: Holberg Suite
Elgar: Introduction & Allegro

Canongate Kirk, Royal Mile, Edinburgh

In aid of the National Society for Epilepsy.

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