Entitled Music Close Up, the new Haddington Concert Society 2023/24 season once again offers chamber music of the highest calibre performed by musicians well-known on the world stage as well as outstanding young musicians, many of them Scottish or with Scottish links.   

Coming up: Moray Welsh (cello) and Martin Roscoe (piano) play Beethoven’s E flat Variations on Bei Männern and A Major Sonata, Op. 69 and Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata on the 80th anniversary year of the maestro’s death (1st Oct). This is followed by Trio Balthasar (pictured), featuring Michael Foyle (violin), Timothy Hugh (cello) and Iain Burnside (piano) playing Haydn’s Trio in E minor, Hob XV:12, Shostakovich’s Trio no. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 and Ravel’s Trio in A minor (22nd Oct).