Live-stream: STRAVINSKY

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Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Premiered at 7.00pm on Thursday 13 May
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STRAVINSKY
Suite italienne (17’)
Divertimento (after The Fairy’s Kiss) (24’)
Septet (12’)
Suite from A Soldier’s Tale (16’)

An evening celebrating the chamber music of Igor Stravinsky, marking 50 years since his death in 1971. These four diverse works, rich in allusion, pastiche and invention, show off the range and dynamism of the chamber writing of this giant of twentieth century music.


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Live-stream: DVOŘÁK, SCHUMANN & BRAHMS

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Premiered at 3.00pm on Thursday 13 May
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DVOŘÁK Silent Woods (6’)
SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op.73 (11’)
BRAHMS Piano Quintet (43’)

‘Silent Woods’ is cello writing at its most soulfully lyrical and underscored by elegantly restrained piano. Schumann’s three short pieces pair cello and piano in perfect balance as they range across wildly contrasting fantastical melodies, moving from a dreamy opening to plunge into the fiery finale. Brahms’s Piano Quintet is a wonderfully dark masterpiece, which has been rightfully described as ‘the crown of chamber music’.


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Live-stream: BEAMISH & BRAHMS

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Premiered at 1.00pm on Thursday 13 May
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BEAMISH St Andrew’s Bones (10’)
BRAHMS Horn Trio (29’)

Beamish’s innovative trio for horn, violin and piano evokes the sounds of bells, the chanting of pilgrims and a 13th century hymn to St Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. Brahms’s Horn Trio is one of the most celebrated pieces of chamber music featuring the horn, with a passionate slow movement surrounded by boisterous rustic scenes capturing the spirit of the forest and a breathless, bustling, up-beat finale.


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360° video premiere: BRITTEN Phantasy Quartet

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Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Premiered at 11.00am on Thursday 13 May
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BRITTEN Phantasy Quartet (13’)

Our second 360° video presentation of the Festival features Britten’s early and yet astoundingly assured work for strings and solo oboe. With its roots in English folk tunes, and solo oboe injecting eerie grittiness, this carefully constructed work grows gently out of silence before arching back to its still conclusion. From the Crucible Studio, Ensemble 360 presents a sensitive performance of this hypnotic work captured in remarkable 360 degree film and binaural sound, allowing you to see and hear this work ‘inside out’ as if you were sitting among the performers.

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Live-stream: DEBUSSY & STRAVINKSY

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Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Premiered at 9.00pm on Wednesday 12 May
This Was Available Until 31 May 2021

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DEBUSSY Images for Piano: Book 1 (15’)
STRAVINSKY Two pieces from ‘The Firebird’ (8’)
DEBUSSY Images for Piano: Book 2 (14’)
DEBUSSY Violin Sonata in G minor (14’)

This late-night performance conjures up the sounds of an early 20th century Parisian night. Surrounding two pieces from Stravinsky’s breakthrough ballet ‘The Firebird’ are both books of Debussy’s Images, evoking the Seine, celestial imagery and the suggestion of bells. Concluding with his capricious Violin Sonata, Debussy’s last work, bursting with intense musical ideas, this set of virtuosic fireworks concludes an impressionistic evening in the city of light.


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