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Art and Music at the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival
Helen Grime & members of Ensemble 360 - Music in the Round's Sheffield Chamber Music Festival at the Crucible Studio Theatre Art and Music: Huw Watkins, Helen Grime, John Cage, Debussy, Bach, Chopin; Ensemble 360; Music in the Round's Sheffield Chamber Music Festival at the Crucible Studio TheatreReviewed 14 May 2022 (★★★★) A fascinating evening that combined music and image, mixing some fine music making with an exercise in thinking about creativity and inspiration. For the second evening (Saturday 14 May 2022) of Music in the Round's Sheffield Chamber Music Festival at the Crucible Studio Theatre, Ensemble 360 (Tim Horton, piano, Lucy Gould, violin, Claudia Ajmone-Marsan, violin, Sara Wolstenholme, violin, Rachel Roberts viola, Gemma Rosefield, cello) explored Art and Music, performing pieces directly inspired by works of art. We heard music by Huw Watkins, Helen Grime (the guest curator of this year's festival), John Cage, Debussy, Chopin and JS […]
2022-05-14 10:21:57
Vividly present playing & discreet virtuosity from Ensemble 360 at the launch of Music in the Round's 2022 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival
Dvorak: Piano Quintet - Ensemble 360 - Music in the Round's Sheffield Chamber Music Festival at Crucible Studio Theatre Festival Launch - Janacek, Martinu, Anna Meredith, Dvorak; Ensemble 360; Music in the Round's Sheffield Chamber Music Festival at Crucible Studio TheatreReviewed 13 May 2022 (★★★★½) Sheffield Chamber Music Festival launches with a largely Czech programme, showcasing the brilliant playing of Ensemble 360 in a series of unusual combinations with some vivid and very present playing Music in the Round's Sheffield Chamber Music Festival (curated this year by composer Helen Grime) which takes place in the Crucible Studio Theatre, launched last night, Friday 13 May 2022, with a programme of largely Czech chamber music performed by members of Ensemble 360, the festival resident ensemble. So, we heard Janacek's Concertino, Martinu's Three Madrigals and Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A, Op.81, alongside Anna Meredith's Tripotage Miniatures, performed by Claire Wickes (flute), Rachael Clegg (oboe), Peter Sparks […]
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2018-08-02 05:01:20
Rudolf Firkusny With Guido Ajmone Marsan And The San Francisco Symphony In Concert – 1978 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Rudolf Firkusny with Guido Ajmone Marsan and The San Francisco Symphony – 1978-1979 Season – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A rather short concert this week – short, in the sense that only two pieces survived and the third piece (the Mendelssohn “Scottish” Symphony) was sadly incomplete and badly damaged.... The post appeared first on Past Daily.
2018-02-05 19:23:00
Wigmore Hall Janáček: Concertino Mozart: Quintet in E-flat major for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon, KV 452Beethoven: Septet in E-flat major, op.20 Juliette Bausor (flute) Adrian Wilson (oboe)Matthew Hunt (clarinet)Amy Harman (bassoon)Naomi Atherton (horn)Benjamin Navarro, Claudia Ajmone-Marsan (violins)Ruth Gibson (viola)Gemma Rosefield (cello)Laurène Durantel (double-bass)Tim Horton (piano) Ensemble 360 appeared here in its full complement of five string players, five wind players, and pianist, although never (quite) all at the same time. I have no idea why we do not hear Janáček’s Concertino all the time, but then I might say the same about all the music performed here, none of which suffers from over-exposure. Maybe it is just a matter of the slightly unusual ensemble, although it would hardly be difficult to put one such group together from time to time. At any rate, this proved to be a delightful, varied concert of delightful, varied, and […]
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