Sheffield Chamber Music Festival: Sheffield
Enescu: Violin Sonata no.2
Fauré: Violin Concerto
Fauré:String Quartet
Enescu: Violin Sonata no.2
Fauré: Violin Concerto
Fauré:String Quartet
Friday Night in Paris
Roderick Williams and Ensemble 360
Musical national treasure Roderick Williams, soloist at King Charles III’s Coronation and Singer-in-Residence with Music in the Round, returns to the Crucible Playhouse with Ensemble 360 for a magical tour through the City of Light.
Fauré’s first Piano Quintet was a labour of love that he nurtured over many years, and the song cycles and works for violin he wrote alongside it echo through this exquisitely constructed piece.
Poulenc’s kaleidoscopic sextet encompasses jazz, ragtime, pastiche of Mozart and a tribute to Ravel, whose ‘Madagascan’ songs they follow, in this programme luxuriating in the many sounds of fin de siècle Paris.
Culminating in Fauré’s intricate song-cycle, crafted from the poems of Paul Verlaine, this concert reunites Ensemble 360, with Music in the Round’s singer-in-residence Roderick Williams for the first time since 2017.
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet no. 1 in D minor, op. 89
Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Interval
Francis Poulenc: Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano in C major
Gabriel Fauré: La Bonne Chanson for Baritone, String Quintet and Piano
Ensemble 360 and Steven Isserlis in Festival Finale
George Onslow: Nonet, op. 77
Gabriel Fauré: Elegie, op. 24
Interval
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: String Sextet in D minor, op.70, Souvenir de Florence
A grand work for a grand finale: captivating charm and wit from George Onslow’s Nonet. Nicknamed the ‘French Beethoven’, this is a chance to hear one of his finest and largest-scale chamber works whose five movements move through an expressive array of moods from turbulence to a jubilant conclusion.
Steven Isserlis then joins pianist Tim Horton for a heartfelt lament by Gabriel Fauré, before we sign off with Tchaikovsky’s celebratory musical postcard, Souvenir de Florence. This hugely popular string sextet by the great Russian composer features both Steven Isserlis and Ensemble 360’s cellist Gemma Rosefield, and promises to be a fitting farewell to the Festival in our anniversary year.
Recorded for BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Leonore Piano Trio and Lawrence Power
Luise Adolpha Le Beau : Piano Quartet in F minor Op.28
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet no. 2 in G minor, op. 45
Recorded for BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Robert Schumann: Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor, op. 63
Antonin Dvořák: Piano Trio no. 3 in F minor, Op. 65
Tim Horton joins the faculty of The Thinking Pianist
The concept of this immersive 7-day course is to offer a rich variety of activities focussing on different aspects of playing, studying, teaching and thinking about the piano, integrated with parallel well-being coaching in Yoga, Tai-Chi, Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method. Coupling this with high-quality pianos, marvellous food, beautiful Victorian Gothic surroundings and the Cotswolds on the doorstep made for a truly memorable experience for all who attended in previous years.
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke for Clarinet and Piano, op. 73
Edwin York Bowen: Phantasie, op. 54
Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132
Interval
Huw Watkins: Speak Seven Seas
Josef Holbrooke: Nocturne, op. 57, no. 1, Fairyland
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat major, K. 498, Kegelstatt
Clara Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor, op. 17
Helen Grime:: The Brook Sings Loud
Antonin Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65
The Leonore Piano Trio mentors last year’s rising stars of classical music.
Claude Debussy: Préludes (selection from Book Two)
Frédéric François Chopin: 24 Préludes, op. 28