Ensemble 360 and Claire Booth, who have forged a dynamic partnership through their performances of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire together, now turn their attention to Berio’s quirky and intriguing Folk Songs in the composer’s centenary year. Indeed, folk influences pervade the whole programme, from Rebecca Clarke’s pastoral-tinged duo for clarinet and viola and Katherine Hoover’s evocation of the Hopi people to Ravel’s sultry, sun-drenched pictures of Madagascar.
A preconcert thread of Berio Sequenzas sets the scene…..
Join members of Ensemble 360 in the Carne Foyer at 6pm for a pre-concert performance of Luciano Berio’s Sequenzas:
Luciano Berio: Sequenza Ixa for Clarinet Luciano Berio: Sequenza III for Female Voice Luciano Berio: Sequenza IV for Piano
Concert:
Luciano Berio: Quattro Canzoni Populari Rebecca Clarke: Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses Interval Katherine Hoover: Kokopeli for Solo Flute Manuel De Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole Luciano Berio: Folk Songs (with RWCMD student harp and percussion students)
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
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro Huw Watkins: Richard Strauss, arr. D. Matthews: Capriccio Sextet and Closing scene with dramatisation by Sir David Pountney
Francis Poulenc: Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano in C major Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge Interval Franz Schubert:Three Songs for Bassoon and String Quintet arr. Iain Farrington Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen (realisation for string septet by Rudolf Leopold)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat major, K. 493 Judith Bingham: Hodge, Dr. Johnson’s Cat (world première) Interval talk by Laura Tunbridge – Professor of Music, Oxford University and author of Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet no. 13 in B flat major, op. 130
Robert Plane (clarinet) Mathilde Milwidsky (violin) George Vass (conductor) Presteigne Festival Orchestra
David Matthews: Three Birds and a Farewell, Op. 118 Electra Perivolaris: Mastiha Roxanna Panufnik: Four World Seasons Sarah Frances Jenkins: The First Swallow, for clarinet and string orchestra Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C, op. 48
Robert Plane (clarinet) Rachel Roberts (viola) Chris Hopkins (piano)
Huw Watkins: Speak Seven Seas John Hawkins: Urizen (for viola and piano) Michael Berkeley: Trio for clarinet, viola and piano (world premiere) Witold Lutoslawski:: Dance Preludes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat, K. 498, Kegelstatt
