The Gould Piano Trio and Robert Plane, joint Artistic Directors of Corbridge Chamber Music Festival, talk about this year’s edition, live from The Bowes Museum on BBC Breakfast. They will also play:
Louise Farrenc: Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in E flat major, op. 44, Adagio
Bedřich Smetana: Piano Trio in G Minor, op. 15, Scherzo
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op.11
Herrmann Bernard: Souvenirs de voyage
Antonin Dvořák:String Quintet in G major, op.77
Nuevo Tango, with JP Jofre (bandoneon/composer) and the Corbridge Festival Musicians. Argentinian bandoneon sensaton entertains as composer and performer with his unique style of modern-day Tango.
Pierrot’s Moon
Debussy Pierrot
Kowalski Sonnen Ende
Marx Pierrot Dandy
Schumann Carnival Op.9 No.2 Pierrot
Korngold Tanzlied des Pierrot
Rebecca Clarke Midsummer Moon
Debussy Cello Sonata
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
Noche Americana
an evening of evocative music from, and inspired by, the Americas.
Our festival finale opens with one of Boccherini’s many string quintets (there are over a hundred!), a particularly vocal example which draws upon influences as diverse as Italian Opera and Spanish Fandango. We then draw together some of the threads of the 2024 Corbridge Festival, with Pierrot’s escapades graphically depicted by Thea Musgrave, and a final reminder of JP Joffre’s astonishing bandoneon playing in that classic of ‘Nuevo Tango’, Piazzolla’s ‘Libertango’. ‘I can’t tell you how moved I am by it, and powerfully gripped’ wrote Clara Schumann of Brahms’ Piano Quintet Op.34. Widely regarded as the jewel in the crown of Brahms’ chamber works, what better way to bring the 2024 Corbridge Chamber Music Festival to a rousing end?
Boccherini: String Quintet in D major G353 Thea Musgrave: Pierrot
Piazzolla: Libertango
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34
Heinrich Marschner: Piano Trio no. 2 in G minor, op. 111
Mikhail Glinka: Trio Pathétique
Interval
Felix Mendelssohn: Song without Words
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 70, no. 2
Domenico Scarlatti, arr. Dinu Lipatti: Sonatas
Samuel Barber: Summer Music, op. 31
Luciano Berio: Opus Number Zoo
Interval
Franz Danzi: Quintet in B flat major, op. 56, no. 1
Valerie Coleman: Umoja
Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet, op. 43
Witold Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes
Pamela Harrison: Drifting Away for clarinet and piano
Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F minor, op. 120, no. 1
Interval
Eleanor Alberga: Duo from Dancing with the Shadow
Josef Holbrooke: Eilean Shona op.74 and selection from Mezzo-Tints, op. 55
Paquito D’Rivera: The Cape Cod Files