Fauré Élégie,  Thème et variations Poulenc Cello sonata,  Novelettes Diana Hinds piano Coral Lancaster cello Composed in 1880, Gabriel Fauré’s Élégie for solo cello was first performed in 1883.  At first, Fauré was looking into writing a cello sonata and it...

Franz Schubert ‘Octet in F’ Op 166 This is Schubert’s largest-scale chamber music work.  It is roughly contemporaneous with his “Rosamunde” and “Death and the Maiden” string quartets.  Count Ferdinand Troyer commissioned a work similar to Beethoven’s popular Septet, op....

Pavlova Wind Quintet Christmas Concert Light music for a winter afternoon Traditional Christmas Favourites   Pavlova Winds Peter Robertson flute Alison Street oboe Barbara Stuart clarinet Jenny Morgan horn Simon Payne bassoon

Programme to include Handel, Purcell, de Falla, Chick Corea, Duke Ellington Cello Trio Jane Fenton Jacqueline Johnson Kath Sharman

The Virtuoso Flute Peter Robertson flute Yoshiko Endo piano Poulenc Flute Sonata Telemann Sonata in f minor Faure Fantaisie Op 79 Something about a Pan ...and something about my hat having 3 corners.

Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 The mystic aspect to Rachmaninov’s art can be felt strongly throughout his Cello Sonata, his most famous piece of chamber music. While there are no obvious quotations from any Orthodox hymns, the...

Shostakovich Piano Trio no 2 in E minor The horrors of the Second World War loomed large for Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75), perhaps more so than any other Soviet composer. Nazi persecutions of Jewish people and other dissidents reflected his own...

JS Bach Partita no 2 in C minor BWV826 J.S. Bach was a composer, violinist, harpsichordist, and organist of the Baroque period. Throughout his sixty-five years lifetime, Bach composed an incredible 1128 pieces of music. Among them, 223 pieces are...

The Amalfi Piano Quartet Andrew Blankfield piano, Claire Parkin violin, Adam Clarke viola, Emma Chamberlain cello DVORAK Quartet in E-Flat Major for Piano and Strings, Op. 87 I Allegro con fuoco II Lento III Allegro moderato, grazioso IV Allegro ma...