International Chamber Music Season 2009/10 | Southbank Centre.

International Chamber Music Season 2009/10

International Chamber Music Season 2009/10

The 2009/10 International Chamber Music Season offers audiences an enormous breadth of sonorities and styles, encompassing warmth and intimacy as well as high drama and excitement.

A remarkable line-up of performers, pieces and collaborations brings real variety, with internationally acclaimed artists rubbing shoulders with bright new talent, classical masterpieces next to contemporary innovation, and rarely-heard works that deserve more prominent exposure.

At the heart of the season lies a great event – a complete cycle of Beethoven’s monumental string quartets, performed in six concerts by Southbank Centre Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet. One of the world’s finest and most joyous ensembles, the quality of these players and the epic nature of Beethoven’s quartets combine to mark these concerts out as unmissable.

We are also privileged to hear major contributions from the exciting Emerson String Quartet, who return in spring to perform a programme with a Czech focus, and internationally acclaimed violinist Leonidas Kavakos as part of a week-long residency at Southbank Centre. Epitomising this extraordinary blend is the season’s opening concert in which mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter curates a highly personal programme, performing haunting music seldom heard in the concert hall, with pieces from her critically acclaimed recording Theresienstadt. Here is a series that we feel portrays the world in all its astonishing variety and quality, a tribute to the uniquely intimate creative spark of chamber music. We look forward to welcoming you to all these concerts.

Listen to our podcast. Presenter Sandy Burnett interviews Marshall Marcus, Head of Classical Music at Southbank Centre.

(Produced by Sandy Burnett for artsaudio and Tim Woodall & Simon Wall for Intermusica. Extract from Beethoven's Quartet in F major, Op.59 No.1 courtesy of Decca (470 847-2). Extract from Ilse Weber's Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon (DG 477 6546).)

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