JAZZ PIANO LEGEND

Julian Joseph

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 6 November 2021, 7.15pm

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Acclaimed as one of the finest jazz musicians to emerge this side of the Atlantic, Julian Joseph has devoted his long career to championing jazz across the British Isles and into the far corners of the globe. He was the first Black British jazz musician to host a series at London’s Wigmore Hall, and the first to headline a late-night concert at the BBC Proms with his All Star Big Band. When he performed for Music in the Round in 2016, he left audiences speechless at the breadth and brilliance of his improvising skills, and we are delighted to welcome him back to Sheffield. 

“The most significant jazz musician this country has produced for many years, perhaps ever.” The Stage

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Julian Joseph

Julian Joseph is one of the finest, most influential and highly respected musicians in British jazz today. Devoting his career to championing the music across the UK and into the far corners of the world, he has forged a reputation beyond his formidable skills as a performer and composer to become universally recognised as a highly knowledgeable and engaging broadcaster, musical ambassador and cultural advocate. Read more here.

STARS OF CLASSICAL GUITAR & ACCORDION

Craig Ogden & Miloš Milivojević

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 6 November 2021, 3.00pm

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Classical guitarist Craig Ogden has recorded an impressive six chart-topping CDs for Classic FM. He teams up with the award-winning classical accordionist Miloš Milivojević for this relaxed concert, performing in a unique duo showcasing stunning arrangements of classical music by composers including Vivaldi, Scarlatti and Piazzolla. Both virtuosos of their instrument with international careers, their partnership reveals compelling playing, and their chatty concert presentation has made them firm favourites with audiences of all ages. 

“Some of the finest guitar-playing on the planet” ***** @Reviewsgate 

Post-concert Q&A
Music in the Round’s Programme Manager Tom McKinney is joined by Craig and Miloš for a chat after the concert.

Free to all ticket-holders for this concert.

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About the Artists

Craig Ogden

Australian born guitarist Craig Ogden is one of the most exciting artists of his generation. He studied guitar from the age of seven and percussion from the age of thirteen. In 2004, he became the youngest instrumentalist to receive a Fellowship Award from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

One of the UK’s most recorded guitarists, his recordings for Virgin/EMI, Chandos, Nimbus, Hyperion, Sony and Classic FM have received wide acclaim. Craig’s six chart topping albums for Classic FM are regularly played on air.

Miloš Milivojević

Award-winning Serbian born Miloš Milivojević has been described as
“A hurricane of imaginative invention” by Hilary Finch, The Times. His versatility as a musician performing different genres including classical, tango and world music, has ensured he is in demand internationally.

A THOMAS HARDY SONGBOOK

Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Thursday 4 November 2021, 7.15pm

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A THOMAS HARDY SONGBOOK includes songs by Benjamin Britten, John Ireland and more
FINZI  Before and After Summer 

Featuring special guest Momentum artist, Gareth Brynmor John, as part of the Momentum: Our Future, Now initiative

Music in the Round’s Singer-in-Residence, Roderick Williams, is without a doubt one of the greatest performers of English song. In this concert, Roderick and Christopher will carry us through the wonderful Wessex world of Thomas Hardy’s poems set to music. From cider-drenched outbursts of joy in spring, to the falling yellow leaves of autumn, expect to be completely absorbed by an idyllic landscape with these outstanding musicians.  

Roderick and Christopher will also be joined by special guest Momentum artist, Gareth Brynmor John, who will be performing a few songs in this concert. The ‘Momentum: Our Future, Now’ initiative has been established in response to the pandemic, which sees leading soloists and conductors supporting younger colleagues by inviting them to share the stage at concerts and events taking place over the coming seasons.

Gareth first wowed Sheffield audiences back in December 2017, when he stood in for Roderick Williams who was unable to perform due to illness. Music in the Round is absolutely delighted to be welcoming them both back to Upper Chapel this autumn, as we do all that we can to support musicians in these challenging times.

“I can think of no better way to nurture the enormous musical talent that is facing such a threat in the face of this pandemic. I dearly hope that performers, promoters and audiences alike become used to the idea that, for the time being, opportunities to make music can be shared rather than competed for. We need to help each other now more than ever.” Roderick Williams

“Our greatest living baritone” The Daily Telegraph 

 

About the Artists

Roderick Williams

Roderick Williams is one of this country’s most sought after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres.   In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the year award.

He is also a composer and has had works premiered at the Wigmore and Barbican Halls, the Purcell Room and live on national radio. Recent commissions include a major  work, World without End, for the Rias Kammerchor and BBC Singers as well as a commission to celebrate the centenary of the RAF.   He was Artistic Director of Leeds Lieder + in April 2016 and he is currently ‘singer-in-residence’ for Music in the Round in Sheffield, presenting concerts and leading on dynamic and innovative learning and participation projects that introduce amateur singers, young and old, to performing classical song repertoire.  He was awarded an OBE for services to music in June 2017.

Christopher Glynn

Chris is an award-winning pianist and accompanist, praised for his ‘breathtaking sensitivity’ (Gramophone), ‘irrepressible energy, wit and finesse’ (The Guardian), ‘a perfect fusion of voice and piano’ (BBC Music Magazine) and as ‘an inspired programmer’ (The Times). He is also Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival, programming around sixty events each year in beautiful and historic venues across North Yorkshire.

Chris read music at New College, Oxford and studied piano with John Streets in France and Malcolm Martineau at the Royal Academy of Music, where he now teaches. He has made many CD recordings and is regularly heard on BBC Radio 3.

An interest in bringing classical song to a wider audience recently led Chris to commission Jeremy Sams to create new English translations of Schubert’s song cycles, now being recorded for Signum Records. Future plans include recitals with Roderick Williams and Ian Bostridge, further collaborations with Jeremy Sams (Schumann and Wolf songs), CD recordings with Nicky Spence, Kathryn Rudge, Claire Booth, Roderick Williams and The Sixteen, a project with Streetwise Opera, leading masterclasses for the Britten Pears School, a tour of Wolf’s Italian Songbook, and embarking on a project with Rachel Podger to perform and record Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas.

MARTINŮ, DVOŘÁK & A WORLD PREMIERE

Ensemble 360

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Friday 22 October 2021, 7.15pm

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Home› What's on› MARTINŮ, DVOŘÁK & A WORLD PREMIERE

MARTINŮ  Nonet (16’)
VITKAUSKAITÉ Nanga (world premiere) (c.10’)
DVOŘÁK  Piano Quintet No.2 (39’)

Three centuries of music feature in this much-anticipated return to the Crucible Studio, with a 19th century classic, a large-scale gem of the 20th century chamber repertoire and a world premiere composed in 2021. Nine members of Ensemble 360 open this concert with Martinů’s tuneful and optimistic, richly textured Nonet. We are delighted to present the latest in our series of RPS chamber music commissions: a new work for piano trio by Rūta Vitkauskaitė. We conclude with Dvořák’s lyrical and lively folk dance-inspired masterpiece.  

Post-concert talk
Rūta Vitkauskaitė talks with members of Ensemble 360 about her new composition following its world premiere performance in the Crucible Studio.
Free to all ticket-holders for this concert.

This concert is celebrating the life of David Megginson, past Chair & Lifetime Patron of Music in the Round, who played a crucial part, with Peter Cropper, in creating Ensemble 360 in 2005.

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Ensemble 360

Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK not only for the quality and integrity of its playing, but also for its ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences. Formed in 2005, 11 musicians of international standing came together to take up residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group of five string players, five wind players and a pianist. The musicians believe that concerts should be informal, friendly and relaxed occasions, and perform ‘in the round’ wherever possible. Critical acclaim has greeted all the group’s CDs to date: Mozart and Spohr (ASV Gold), Beethoven and Poulenc (Nimbus Alliance).

SAINT-SAËNS & MORE

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Friday 24 September 2021, 1.00pm / 7.00pm

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HAAS Suite for piano and oboe (15′)
BRITTEN, Metamorphoses (13′)
CHOPIN, Mazurkas (10′)
SAINT-SAËNS Oboe Sonata (11′)

Ensemble 360’s Adrian Wilson is joined by pianist Ben Frith for this concert that spotlights the virtuosic qualities of the oboe.

* PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE TO THE PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED PROGRAMME.

“Ensemble 360 [gave] a mesmerising performance” ***** Bach Track 

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Ensemble 360

Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK not only for the quality and integrity of its playing, but also for its ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences. Formed in 2005, 11 musicians of international standing came together to take up residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group of five string players, five wind players and a pianist. The musicians believe that concerts should be informal, friendly and relaxed occasions, and perform ‘in the round’ wherever possible. Critical acclaim has greeted all the group’s CDs to date: Mozart and Spohr (ASV Gold), Beethoven and Poulenc (Nimbus Alliance).

ROMANTIC PIANO TRIOS

Leonore Piano Trio

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Friday 17 September 2021, 1.00pm / 7.00pm

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HAYDN Piano Trio Hob XV:21 (14′)
DVOŘÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op.65 (40′)

After their best-selling series of concerts featuring Beethoven’s piano trios, Benjamin Nabarro, Gemma Rosefield and Tim Horton begin a new cycle in which some of the greatest piano trios of the 19th century are paired with the composer who almost single-handedly invented the form: Joseph Haydn. These concerts will dazzle and delight with their sheer range of emotions; definitely not to be missed! 

“High virtuosity all round – superb light, dazzling backgrounds from Tim Horton, searing intensity of tone from violinist Benjamin Nabarro and cellist Gemma Rosefield… terrific stuff.” BBC Music Magazine **** 

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Leonore Piano Trio

Formed in 2012, the Leonore Trio brings together three internationally acclaimed artists whose piano trio performances as part of Ensemble 360 were met with such enthusiastic responses that they decided to form a piano trio in its own right.

The Trio has since given concerts throughout the UK, Italy, Norway (Bergen International Festival and Oslo Concert Hall), Denmark and in New Zealand.

Recent highlights include a performance of the complete Beethoven Piano Trios at Kings Place, and an even broader long-term project, including all the works by Beethoven for piano trio, piano and violin, and piano and cello for Music in the Round in Sheffield. The Trio also returned to Istanbul’s Süreyya Opera House, Wigmore Hall, the Sage Gateshead, Bath Mozartfest, Durham MUSICON series, Eaton Square Concerts and a tour of Scotland. Their latest disc for Hyperion, of works by Henry Charles Litolff, was released in February 2020. It was warmly praised by critics, was in Presto Classical’s top 100 recordings of 2020, and was awarded Editor’s Choice by Gramophone for its “engaging music, played with striking advocacy from the outset, beautifully recorded”.

BACH, BEETHOVEN & MORE

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Friday 10 September 2021, 1.00pm / 7.00pm

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BARTÓK Violin Rhapsody No.1 (9′)
BACH Violin Sonata in G BWV 1021 (17′)
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata in G Op.30 No.3 (18′)
JANÁČEK Violin Sonata (17′)

Violinist Claudia Ajmone-Marsan and pianist Tim Horton explore the breadth of works for violin and piano in this rich and varied programme. Claudia has recited extracts of Beethoven’s letters at previous concerts and for our podcast, so this is an opportunity to hear her play his stately work that showcases the invention and range of violin-playing. Bartók’s peasant dance-inspired Rhapsody is a spectacular opening of fireworks, full of intrigue and surprise; while Janáček’s Sonata brings the concert to a close, treating the listener to an evocative series of musical images.  

 

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Ensemble 360

Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK not only for the quality and integrity of its playing, but also for its ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences. Formed in 2005, 11 musicians of international standing came together to take up residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group of five string players, five wind players and a pianist. The musicians believe that concerts should be informal, friendly and relaxed occasions, and perform ‘in the round’ wherever possible. Critical acclaim has greeted all the group’s CDs to date: Mozart and Spohr (ASV Gold), Beethoven and Poulenc (Nimbus Alliance).

BEETHOVEN String Quartets

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Friday 3 September 2021, 1.00pm / 7.00pm

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BEETHOVEN Op.18 No.6 (26’)
BEETHOVEN Op.131 (39’) 

Ensemble 360 continues its exploration of the full arch of Beethoven’s string quartets with a pairing drawn from early in his lifelong dedication to the form and what is said to be his own favourite of these works. Inventive, syncopated, eccentric; the first of this pairing is playful, bright and full of longing. An intricate quartet follows, which turns from brooding intensity to monumental power, and left Schubert asking, “After this, what is left for us to write?“ 

 

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Ensemble 360

Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK not only for the quality and integrity of its playing, but also for its ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences. Formed in 2005, 11 musicians of international standing came together to take up residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group of five string players, five wind players and a pianist. The musicians believe that concerts should be informal, friendly and relaxed occasions, and perform ‘in the round’ wherever possible. Critical acclaim has greeted all the group’s CDs to date: Mozart and Spohr (ASV Gold), Beethoven and Poulenc (Nimbus Alliance).

BACH Well-tempered Clavier

Libby Burgess

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Friday 13 August 2021, 11.00am / 2.00pm / 5.30pm / 8.00pm

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BACH Well-Tempered Clavier
Both books performed in their entirety over 4 hour-long concerts 

A rare chance to hear the Well-Tempered Clavier in its entirety. Pianist Libby Burgess tackles this monumental work for keyboard as part of her series performing ‘the 48’ in each of England’s 48 counties. Each movement lasts only a few minutes, but between them they explore a wealth of characters, styles and moods, representing not only a diversity of musical language but also exploring the whole gamut of human emotional experience.  

LIBBY BURGESS talk
Friday 13 August
7.00pm – 7.45pm 
Channing Hall 

FREE 

 Libby Burgess provides insight into her Project-48 series of concerts performing Bach’s monumental work for keyboard in all 48 counties. 
Free tickets available to all 5.30pm and 8.00pm ticket holders. Tickets must be ordered in person at box office or over the phone by calling 0114 249 6000. If you are attending this pre-concert event, you will not be required to arrive at the time specified on your ticket for the 8.00pm concert. There is strictly limited capacity due to social distancing requirements. Early booking is recommended.  

About Libby Burgess’s Project 48
Project 48 is raising funds for musical charities, inspired by Bach’s comment that this music was written “for the benefit and use of the musical youth eager to learn, as well as for the special pastime of those already skilful in this study.”

This project will be fundraising for four musical charities who provide much-needed help to those same categories of people today – musicians young and old. Find out more here.

 

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Libby Burgess

Pianist Libby Burgess is known for her ‘warm, sensitive pianism’ (The Observer), her musical intelligence, and her generosity of collaborative spirit. The creative highlight of Libby’s year is the annual New Paths festival in Yorkshire: as Artistic Director she is recognised for the striking, enticing tone of her programming, reflecting her own twin interests of song and chamber music. Music ranges from the complete Schubert song cycles in 2019 (partnering Jonathan Lemalu, Nicholas Mulroy and Marcus Farnsworth), and annual commissions from living composers, to concerts for pre-schoolers. Libby is Co-Artistic Director with Martin Roscoe of the Beverley Chamber Music Festival, where her collaborators include the Brodsky Quartet, cellist Laura van der Heijden and mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately. In between these festivals, Libby is on recital stages across the country, from the prestigious to the obscure. She is highly regarded as a chorusmaster, vocal coach and chamber music tutor, and was previously Head of Keyboard at Eton College. 

 

CLARKE & SCHUBERT

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Friday 6 August 2021, 1.00pm / 7.00pm

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CLARKE Viola Sonata (24’)
SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata (25’) 

 A virtuoso viola player herself, Clarke’s sonata for viola and piano is one of her best-known and most loved pieces. First performed in 1919, with echoes of Debussy and Vaughan Williams, this lush sonata is richly chromatic, inventive and pyrotechnic. Schubert’s elegant Arpeggione Sonata risked fading with extinction of the ‘bowed guitar’ instrument for which it was written, and hence its name. This viola transcription draws out the melancholy and hope of Schubert’s intricate and soulful work. 

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Ensemble 360

Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK not only for the quality and integrity of its playing, but also for its ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences. Formed in 2005, 11 musicians of international standing came together to take up residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group of five string players, five wind players and a pianist. The musicians believe that concerts should be informal, friendly and relaxed occasions, and perform ‘in the round’ wherever possible. Critical acclaim has greeted all the group’s CDs to date: Mozart and Spohr (ASV Gold), Beethoven and Poulenc (Nimbus Alliance).

360° video preview: BEETHOVEN Grosse Fuge

Ensemble 360

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
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BEETHOVEN Grosse Fuge

Beethoven’s shortest string quartet is also his most intense. Powerfully strange and hauntingly beautiful, this staggeringly modern quartet confounded its first audiences and has gone on to inspire and enrapture generations of performers, composers and audiences ever since. Ensemble 360 presents a fierce, committed and spectacular performance recorded in 360 degree film and binaural sound. Performed in the Crucible Studio Theatre, the film allows you to see and hear this work ‘inside out’ as if you were sitting among the performers.


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Ensemble 360

Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK not only for the quality and integrity of its playing, but also for its ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences. Formed in 2005, 11 musicians of international standing came together to take up residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group of five string players, five wind players and a pianist. The musicians believe that concerts should be informal, friendly and relaxed occasions, and perform ‘in the round’ wherever possible. Critical acclaim has greeted all the group’s CDs to date: Mozart and Spohr (ASV Gold), Beethoven and Poulenc (Nimbus Alliance).

HOWELLS & MOZART

Ensemble 360

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
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HOWELLS Rhapsodic Quintet (12’)
MOZART Clarinet Quintet K581(‘33)

Two starkly different clarinet quintets.

Howells’s mystical single movement Rhapsodic Quintet flows with a series of song-like melodies and is filled with poignancy and longing. In contrast, Mozart’s much-loved Clarinet Quintet makes use of the languid tones made possible by this (then new) instrument: by turns elegant, elegiac, enigmatic and exuberant.


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Ensemble 360

Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK not only for the quality and integrity of its playing, but also for its ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences. Formed in 2005, 11 musicians of international standing came together to take up residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group of five string players, five wind players and a pianist. The musicians believe that concerts should be informal, friendly and relaxed occasions, and perform ‘in the round’ wherever possible. Critical acclaim has greeted all the group’s CDs to date: Mozart and Spohr (ASV Gold), Beethoven and Poulenc (Nimbus Alliance).