BRAHMS, SCHUMANN and more

Ensemble 360

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Thursday 10 March 2022, 7.15pm

Tickets: £20  
£14 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s 

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VIGNERY Sonata for Horn and Piano
BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in F minor 
ROBERT SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op.73 
REINECKE Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Piano 

Brahms’s harmonious Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, one of the great masterpieces in the clarinet repertoire, is performed alongside Schumann’s exuberant, playful and romantic ‘fantasy pieces’. This is also a rare chance to hear Vignery’s tuneful and spirited sonata for horn and piano, and Reinecke’s trio, which continues the exploration of the fantastical, passing hunting call-like melodies between the clarinet and horn, to a thrilling, galloping climax. 

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Jill Lumb, a long-standing supporter of The Lindsays and Music in the Round.

About the Artists

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 – Postponed

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Saturday 5 February 2022, 7.00pm

Tickets: £20  
£14 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s 

Past Event
Ensemble 360 String Quartet
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Due to circumstances beyond our control, we regret that this concert has been postponed. We’re very sorry for the disappointment this may cause. All ticket holders will be contacted directly by Sheffield Theatres regarding their ticket options. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

BEETHOVEN 
String Quartet Op.18 No.3 
String Quartet Op.95 Serioso 
String Quartet Op.59 No.1 

A chance to hear one each of Beethoven’s early and mid quartets, both marked by wit and invention, formal control and deft construction. The monumental first ‘Rasumovsky’ quartet follows, an intense work that marked a sea-change in Beethoven’s writing and is passionate, defiant and deeply moving. 

“[Ensemble 360’s playing] brought real pathos to this moving music” ***** Bach Track 

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About the Artists

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 Cello Suites

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Friday 21 January 2022, 1.00pm / 7.00pm

Tickets: £15  
£10 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s

Past Event
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BACH Cello Suites No.1 & No.3 

Ensemble 360 cellist, Gemma Rosefield, plays two of Bach’s most intimate works, his first and third cello suites. These Suites are some of the most frequently performed and recognisable solo compositions ever written for cello, and regularly feature in film and television soundtracks. 

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About the Artists

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 Goldberg Variations (arr. for string trio)

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Friday 18 February 2022, 1.00pm / 7.00pm

Tickets: £15 
£10 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s 

Past Event
Classical violinist Benjamin Nabarro from Ensemble 360
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BACH Goldberg Variations BWV988  
arr. for string trio 

The Goldberg Variations are rightly hugely popular. First written for harpsichord and best known to modern audiences as a work for piano, here they are arranged for string trio. In this form, the intricacy of counterpoint and the spirituality of this monumental musical structure are brought to the fore through the conversational interplay between the instruments. These hour-long concerts are not to be missed. 

 

About the Artists

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).

MOZART, ADÈS, STRAVINSKY & BRAHMS

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Thursday 10 February 2022, 7.00pm

Tickets: £20  
£14 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s 

Past Event
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MOZART Piano Trio in B flat K502  
ADÈS Catch  
STRAVINSKY A Soldier’s Tale Suite  
BRAHMS Clarinet Trio 

Marking clarinettist Matthew Hunt’s final appearance in Sheffield as a member of Ensemble 360, he appears in three pieces for this concert.  Adès’s Catch is a series of intricate musical games and explosive new sounds for strings, clarinet and piano. Stravinsky’s narrative work, A Soldier’s Tale, features an enjoyable mix of styles including ragtime and klezmer to create a dramatic and melodic miniature epic. To end, one of Brahms’s later works, his Clarinet Trio providing a fitting conclusion to this fantastic concert.  

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

  

About the Artists

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).

Rising-star pianist

Mishka Rushdie Momen

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 15 January 2022, 7.15pm

Tickets: £20  
£14 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s 

Past Event
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BACH Prelude & Fugue in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I 
MOZART Fantasie in C minor K475  
ROBERT SCHUMANN Ten Impromptus on a Theme by Clara Wieck Op.5 
PROKOFIEV Visions fugitives  
BYRD Fantasia in A minor  
LIGETI Etude No.10 Der Zauberlehrling 
SCHUBERT Fantasie in C Wanderer Fantasy 

Named ‘Critics’ Classical Music Breakthrough Artist’ in The Times Arts Awards 2021, Mishka Rushdie Momen is one of the most exciting young pianists performing today. This promises to be a tour de force through five centuries of music played with passion and profound musicality, including Schumann’s early impromptus on a theme by his future wife and Schubert’s epic theme and variations, the Wanderer Fantasy, perhaps his most expansive and exciting work. 

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About the Artists

Mishka Rushdie Momen

Mishka Rushdie Momen was The Times Arts critics’ chosen nominee in the field of classical music for their 2021 Breakthrough Award. This award is given by Sky Arts and The South Bank Show who profiled her for an episode of the programme to be broadcast in July. She appears in recitals and concerto performances worldwide, and Sir András Schiff has presented her in recitals in Zurich Tonhalle, 92Y in New York City, deSingel, Antwerp, and other venues across Europe.

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CHOPIN Works for solo piano

Tim Horton

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 5 March 2022, 7.15pm

Tickets: £20  
£14 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s 

Past Event
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MOZART Fantasy in C minor K396 
SZYMANOWSKI Masques Op.34 
CHOPIN Four Ballades 

Tim Horton continues his exploration of Chopin’s central place within the history of the piano. Looking back, Mozart’s improvisational Fantasy in C minor is dramatic in quality and dark in tone. Looking forward, Szymanowski’s dream-like Masques is colourful, hypnotic and capricious. Taking centre stage, Chopin’s innovative four Ballades share noble melodies and dance-like quality to explore the varied colours of the piano. 

About the Artists

Tim Horton

Tim Horton is one of the UK’s leading pianists, equally at home in solo and chamber repertoire. He is a founder member of both the Leonore Piano Trio and Ensemble 360 and has been a regular guest pianist with the Nash Ensemble.

Between 2011 and 2015 Tim presented a complete Beethoven Sonata cycle at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield for Music in the Round, and was invited to return to perform a cycle of Schubert Sonatas from 2017-2019.

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Tony Kofi ‘Kind of Blue’ sextet

Tony Kofi & Guests

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 8 January 2022, 7.30pm

Tickets: £18
£16 Over 60s, Disabled & Unemployed
£9 Students
£4 Under 16s

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TONY KOFI alto sax
FREDDIE GAVITA trumpet
ALEX GARNETT tenor sax
RICK SIMPSON piano
ANDREW CLEYNDERT bass
ALFONSO VITALE drums

Tony Kofi leads an all-star band celebrating Miles Davis’ highly innovative ‘Kind of Blue’ album, featuring the original numbers and some of the band’s own compositions inspired by it.

More than a milestone in jazz ‘Kind of Blue’ is a defining document of twentieth century music, one of those rare, influential works of art that achieve popularity among musicians, critics and the public alike. Even if you’ve never owned this classic album you’ll instantly recognise ‘So What’, ‘Freddie Freeloader’, ‘Blue in Green’, ‘All Blues’ and ‘Flamenco Sketches’ as old friends.

Presented by Sheffield Jazz

About Sheffield Jazz

Sheffield Jazz

Sheffield Jazz aims to bring the best of national and international jazz to the city, providing opportunities for people from all backgrounds in the Sheffield City Region and throughout Yorkshire, to hear and learn from some of the greatest of current artists.

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RAVEL, SHOSTAKOVICH & DVOŘÁK

Piatti Quartet

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 1 November 2021, 7.30pm

Tickets £18

Past Event
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RAVEL Quartet in F
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet in No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
DVOŘÁK Quartet in F, Op. 96, American

The Piatti Quartet makes a welcome return to Portsmouth, with perhaps the most famous of all quartets not yet heard in our series, Dvořák’s vigorous and very tuneful ‘American’.

Dvořák was still alive when Ravel composed his only addition to the repertoire, and indeed only ten years separates the two pieces, and yet their sound‐worlds could not be more different. Another huge contrast comes with Shostakovich’s darkly autobiographical C minor work, composed in just three days in 1960. At the time he thought it might be his last, though in the event he went on to produce seven further quartets.

HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN & SCHUBERT

Martin Roscoe

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 11 October 2021, 7.30pm

Tickets £18

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HAYDN Andante with Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII/6
SCHUBERT Sonata in G major D.894
MOZART Rondo in A minor, K. 511
BEETHOVEN Sonata in A‐flat, Op. 110

This is our third attempt to have Martin Roscoe play this programme!

It includes four composers who really cemented Vienna’s reputation as the musical capital of the world. The works presented were all composed there within about forty truly golden years, during which what we now call the ‘classical’ period made the transition to early romanticism. Haydn and Mozart represent the former, while Beethoven’s creative output exemplifies the transition. By the time of Schubert’s final sonatas, Beethoven had only been dead for a year, and yet we are clearly in a different age.

Please note the change to the previously advertised programme

About the Artists

Martin Roscoe

During his illustrious career, Martin Roscoe has become one of the UK’s most loved and respected pianists. With his extensive repertoire, consummate musicianship and immediate connection with audiences, he is in great demand as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist.

Martin appears regularly at Wigmore Hall and has long-standing associations with many of the UK’s leading orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Scottish Symphony. A prolific recording artist, Martin has a distinguished discography and is one of the most broadcast pianists on BBC radio.

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MOZART, WEIR & BRAHMS

Gould Piano Trio & Gary Pomeroy

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 21 March 2022, 7.30pm

Tickets £18

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MOZART Piano Trio in E, K. 542
WEIR Piano Quartet
BRAHMS Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25

The Gould Trio last visited Portsmouth Chamber Music four years ago with clarinettist Robert Plane when they gave a spellbinding performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.

This time they are joined by violist Gary Pomeroy from the Heath Quartet who played here in May 2013. Brahms’ G minor piano quartet is his most popular chamber work with its whirlwind Hungarian Dance finale. Judith Weir has become almost a household name over the last 20 years or so, being awarded a CBE in 2005, and succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as Master of the Queen’s Music in 2014.

Gould Piano Trio

The Gould Piano Trio has been compared in the Washington Post to the great Beaux Arts Trio for their “musical fire” and “dedication to the genre” and has remained at the forefront of the international chamber music scene for well over a quarter of a century. They have performed at iconic venues worldwide, such as New York’s Weill Recital Hall, with tours of N. America, the Far East, Europe and New Zealand, and numerous appearances at London’s Wigmore Hall. Their extensive discography includes releases on Naxos, Chandos, Somm, Resonus, NMC and Champs Hill.

BEETHOVEN, SCHULHOFF & DVOŘÁK

Pražák Quartet

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 21 February 2022, 7.30pm

Tickets £18

Past Event
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BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E‐flat, Op. 74, Harp
SCHULHOFF String Quartet No. 1
DVOŘÁK Quartet in G, Op. 106

Like Martin Roscoe, the Pražák Quartet was due to perform for us two seasons ago. Their only previous visit to Portsmouth was in the second season of these concerts, way back in January 2006 when concerts were in the Cathedral.

Erwin Schulhoff was born in Prague in 1894, and was strongly influenced by jazz idioms and rhythms, this quartet dating from 1924. Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ quartet needs little introduction, its nickname deriving from the harp‐like pizzicatos of the first movement. Dvořák’s penultimate quartet is his finest, with great energy in the outer movements, and a most sublime slow movement.