SAARIAHO Six Japanese Gardens (selected movements) (10’)
Ancient Chinese ritual music (6’)
VON BINGEN O vis eternitatis (8’)
YANG YONG River Song (5’)
Improvisation (10’)
ISANG YUN Sori (10’)
Fumeux Fume 12th century Troubadour song (5’)
HOSOKAWA Small Chant (5’)
From the intimate to the divine: an intriguing musical exploration of Chinese music and philosophy alongside European classical traditions.
Moving between eastern and western instruments, these innovative musicians explore how ancient divination practices have inspired music, ritual and performance for over 1,000 years.
Praised for their “highly imaginative” (I Care If You Listen) and “powerfully theatrical performance” (Tempo) with an “intoxicating […] mood of poetry, restraint and elegance”, (The Stage) Tangram specialise in cross-cultural productions and are Associate Artists at LSO St Luke’s.
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IRELAND Summer Schemes; Down by the Salley Gardens; We’ll to the woods no more; Sea Fever; The Vagabond; Youth’s Spring Tribute
CLARKE Down by the Salley Gardens; The Cloths of Heaven; The Seal Man
BOYLE A Song of Enchantment; The Joy of Earth
TIMBLE Green Rain; My grief on the sea
WOOD I’d roam the world over with you
GURNEY Down by the Salley Gardens
HEAD Tewkesbury Road
F WALEY-COHEN The Moon, the Moss & the Mushrooms (Music in the Round co-commission)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Songs of Travel
Music in the Round’s Singer-in-Residence Roderick Williams returns with a programme of heartrendingly beautiful English song, including Vaughan Williams’ glorious cycle Songs of Travel.
This musical voyage around our island home, performed by Roderick and pianist Christopher Glynn, two of the most charming and gifted musicians the country has produced, also includes a cosmically titled new commission from Freya Waley-Cohen inspired by the Exmoor landscape and its fairy-tale folklore.
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“Williams proved the ideal guide to this repertoire, his phrasing, dramatic physicality and illuminating way with the text bringing fresh insights to old favourites… aided and abetted throughout by Christopher Glynn’s poised and poetic piano playing.”
The Guardian
“Roderick Williams is a national treasure. Acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is revelatory.”
BBC Music Magazine
HONEGGER Intrada (5’)
HINDEMITH Concerto for Trumpet & Bassoon [string reduction] (17)’
BERNSTEIN Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (10’)
HAYDN Trumpet Concerto [string reduction] (15’)
COPLAND Quiet City [string reduction] (10’)
BEACH Romance (6’)
GERSHWIN (arr. Morton) Promenade – Walking the Dog (3’)
GERSHWIN (arr. Morton) Three Preludes (8’)
Winner of the Young Artist Category in the 2026 Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Awards, star trumpeter Matilda Lloyd joins Ensemble 360 for a sparkling celebration of American music, alongside some dazzling trumpet classics. Described by BBC Music Magazine as a “trumpeter extraordinaire,” and celebrated for her impeccable sound, crystalline phrasing, and exquisite control, Matilda Lloyd holds audiences spellbound through virtuosity and expressive power.
This brassy concert celebrates the brilliant sounds of the trumpet and its central place in American chamber music drawing on diverse traditions stretching back to Haydn.
Copland’s Quiet City is a portrait of the American night: a solitary walker and a bridge in fog. Beach’s Romance captures the elegance of the Boston salon, while Gershwin’s Three Preludes and whimsical Promenade encapsulate the moment jazz and European music collided, and a continent found its unique musical voice.
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R SCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro (8’)
D HOWARD Unravelled (Music in the Round co-commission) (13’)
N BOULANGER 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano (7’)
SAINT-SAËNS Romance Op.36 (4’)
DEBUSSY (arr. Beamish) La mer (30’)
This lustrous evening brings together exquisite sound paintings for piano, strings and horn, showcasing the range and reach of our resident Ensemble 360.
From the mellifluous warmth of Schumann, through the delicate, dappled colours of Dani Howard’s new piano trio (co-commissioned by Music in the Round with Presteigne Festival) and culminating in Debussy’s impressionistic seascape masterpiece, skillfully arranged for piano and strings by Sally Beamish, this is a concert that shimmers with colour.
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Virtuoso composer, pianist, improviser, broadcaster, Julian Joseph is a jazz polymath.
Acclaimed by critics and audiences the world over, he returns to Sheffield to promote his first studio album in 29 years. Voyage of the Faithful, his long-awaited new release, combines original compositions with jazz standards.
A mesmerizing performer of fluency and invention, Julian’s previous recitals in the Crucible have received rapt admiration from jazz aficionados and curious newcomers alike. This promises to be a stunning evening from one of the most influential and highly respected musicians in British jazz today.
In partnership with Sheffield Jazz
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“A pianist who really does know how to shape a musical idea and make it more intense until you’re practically jumping out of your seat with excitement.
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Daily Telegraph
HANDEL Sonata in G HWV 399 (14’)
TELEMANN Sonata in F TWV 44:11 (9’)
MUFFAT Sonata II in G minor from Armonico Tributo (13’)
WEICHLEIN Sonata VI in F from Encaenia Musices (9’)
BIBER Sonata III in D minor from Fidicinium Acro (5’)
MUFFAT Sonata V in G from Armonico Tributo (20’)
The English Concert “celebrities of the Baroque performance movement” (New York Classical Review) launch a celebration of the majestic High Baroque with Handel’s Sonata in G, a masterclass in grace and counterpoint.
Widely considered to be among the most sensitive and rigorous interpreters of Baroque repertoire, this renowned ensemble continues the journey from Handel’s sonata and guides us through a vibrant, living tradition of music. From the cosmopolitan craft of Telemann to the fiery invention of Biber, and the staggering dexterity of Georg Muffat, discover the music of Handel’s world: intimate, stately and exquisitely beautiful.
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BOCCHERINI Oboe Quintet in D minor (10’)
MOZART Adagio for Glass Harmonica (5’)
BOLOGNE Sonata No.1 in B flat for 2 Violins (10’)
HAYDN Flute Quartet No.1 in D (15’)
SÜSSMAYR Quintet for flute, oboe, violin, viola and cello in D (18’)
MOZART Quintet for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello (15’)
Celebrate Mozart and his lively circle of friends with Ensemble 360 in a delightful evening of music for winds and strings, including two works showcasing the unworldly sound of the glass harmonica.
This remarkable instrument has an ethereal, angelic tone, which fascinated and inspired Mozart. Rarely-played today, the instrument was invented by Benjamin Franklin and was popular in the 18th century. Its sound is created by the player moistening their fingers with water and gently touching the glass bowls rotating on a horizontal spindle.
Music from Mozart’s friends include a sonata full of wit, virtuosity, and graceful charm by Joseph Bologne, a swordsman and pioneering composer who was, briefly, Mozart’s neighbour in Paris; and a bright, elegant quintet by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who famously completed Mozart’s unfinished Requiem following the composer’s death.
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“Ensemble 360… renowned for its virtuoso performances, bold programming and engaging interpretations.”
The Guardian
MOZART Oboe Quartet (15’)
HAYDN Flute Quartet No.1 in D (15’)
MOZART Quintet for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello (15’)
For this ‘Relaxed’ concert of music by Mozart and his friend, Joseph Haydn, doors will be left open, lights raised, a break-out space provided, and there will be less emphasis on the audience being quiet during the performance.
People with an Autism Spectrum, sensory or communication disorder or learning disability, those with age-related impairments and parents/carers with babies are all especially welcome.
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“Lots of places say they’re accessible but aren’t. You’ve just done it right.”
Audience feedback, Relaxed Concert 2025
MONK FELDMAN Clear Edge (5’)
FELDMAN Dance Suite (For Merle Marsicano) (20’)
HARRISON Five Transfigurations and Seven Litanies (world premiere commissioned by Music in the Round) (75’)
Known for bold, fearless programming, GBSR Duo is fast emerging as the leading interpreter of Morton Feldman’s music. Performances in London at the King’s Place, Barbican and Southbank Centre have received high praise from The Guardian: “the intense concentration of these performers and the delicately immersive sound world they created were utterly unforgettable”. Feldman’s rarely performed ‘Dance Suite’ features alongside a monumental new commission by Bryn Harrison, a leading British composer whose music has been described as “utterly compelling” (The Guardian).
With support from the Hinrichsen Foundation
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“A wonderful, adventuresome, sensitive pair of musicians”
Kate Molleson, BBC Radio 3
BEETHOVEN Bagatelles Op.126 (15’)
C SCHUMANN 4 Pièces fugitives Op.15 (14’)
TAILLEFERRE Sicilienne (3’)
POULENC 3 Novelettes (7’)
R SCHUMANN Waldszenen Op.82 (20’)
BRAHMS Piano Pieces Op.119 (15’)
“An artist of extraordinary magnetism” (Daily Telegraph), Yorkshire pianist Sarah Beth Briggs has enjoyed a distinguished career both on stage and in the recording studio. She returns to the Crucible Playhouse for an afternoon of glittering piano favourites.
Among the highlights are works by R Schumann and Beethoven: Schumann’s evocative Forest Scenes conjures a mysterious and haunting symbolic world, populated by hunters, lonely flowers and a watchful, prophetic bird; while Beethoven wrote of his lively Bagatelles that these were “quite the best pieces of their kind that I have written”.
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Silent film with live music
CHAPLIN (arr. Timothy Brock) The Gold Rush (85’)
Charlie Chaplin’s most ambitious and successful silent comedy is presented in a gorgeous restoration with Chaplin’s own Academy Award-nominated score performed live by Ensemble 360 and friends, conducted by George Morton.
The Gold Rush follows two hapless prospectors in search of fortune during the Klondike gold rush. It features everything that made Chaplin’s name across the globe: acrobatic slapstick, poignant romance, high-octane dance and dazzling stunts. The iconic film combines riotous comedy and piercing social insight as Chaplin’s most celebrated on-screen character “the little tramp” walks the tightrope between humour and tragedy.
Packed with some of the most memorable moments from Chaplin’s films, including a dancing dinner rolls routine and a meal of a boiled shoe, combined with unprecedented technical marvels such as a cabin teetering on a cliff edge, this timeless classic was, in Chaplin’s own words, “the picture that I want to be remembered by”.
Following two previous sold-out concerts featuring live music with silent film, Saint Saëns’ L’assasinat de duc de Guise (1908) and Edmund Meisel’s Battleship Potemkin (1925), Ensemble 360 and George Morton return for their most ambitious and large-scale collaboration yet.
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“A delightful blend of slapstick humour, poignant emotion and social commentary”
Rotten Tomatoes, 98%
