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
Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie
Pamela Harrison: Drifting Away for clarinet and piano
Carl Maria von Weber: Grand Duo Concertant, op. 48
Interval
Edwin York Bowen: Clarinet Sonata, op. 109
Paquito D’Rivera: The Cape Cod Files
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
Johannes Brahms: Serenade no. 1 in D major, op. 11, nonet version reconstructed by David Walter
Bohuslav Martinů: Nonet for Wind Quintet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass, H. 374
Interval
Ernő Dohnányi: Sextet in C major, op. 37
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Violin, Viola and Piano in E flat major, K. 498, Kegelstatt
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
Interval
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, The Trout
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio no. 4 in B flat, op. 11, Gassenhauer
Walter Rabl: Clarinet Quartet in E flat major, op. 1
Antonin Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, Dumky
Schubertiade en Bugey
Clara Schumann: Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann Op. 20
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet
Schubert: Rosamunde Quartet
Rebecca Clarke : Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale for clarinet and viola
Korngold and Mozart songs, Chausson: Chanson Perpétuelle
Schubert: Auf dem Strom
Schubert: Trio D471
Stanford: Three Intermezzi
Brahms: Clarinet Trio op. 114
Elgar: Piano quintet
Schubert: Lieder
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
Rebecca Clarke: Duo for Viola and Cello Schubert: Shepherd on the Rock
Schubert: String Quintet in C D956
Igor Stravinsky: Stravinsky 3 pieces for String Quartet
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, op. 10
Interval
Franz Schubert: Quartet in D minor, D. 810 – Death and the Maiden
Josef Suk: Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn ‘St Wenceslas’, op. 35a
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, op. 10
Interval
Herbert Howells: Rhapsodic Quintet, op, 31
Antonin Dvořák: Quartet no. 12 in F major, op. 96, B. 179, American
As part of this Stanford Celebration Day, Robert Plane and the Gould Piano Trio will perform:
Charles Villiers Stanford: Three Intermezzi, op. 13
Clarinet Sonata, op. 129
Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor, op. 73
Festival Launch
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet no. 2 in G minor, op. 45
Louise Farrenc: Nonet, op. 38
Paul Rissmann: Sir Scallywag and The Battle Of Stinky Bottom; Giles Andreae (words), Korky Paul (illustrations)
Sunrise
Samuel Barber: Summer Music, op. 31
Olivier Messiaen: Appel interstellai
Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet, op. 43
Darius Milhaud: La Cheminée du Roi René
Back by popular demand! The wind players of Ensemble 360 will perform a selection of music to accompany the rising sun, alongside the dawn chorus of singing birds. Featuring the blues-inflected Summer Music by Samuel Barber, the technical fireworks of Messiaen’s interstellar horn-calls (recorded above the Hope Valley by Naomi Atherton for our online festival in 2020), and music for wind inspired by nature, this promises to be an atmospheric morning of music in a unique setting.
Relaxed Concert: Carnival
Saint-Saëns: Morceau de concert for horn and piano
Saint-Saëns: Bassoon Sonata
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals
For this ‘Relaxed’ concert featuring ‘The Carnival of the Animals’, doors will be left open, lights raised, a break-out space provided, and there will be less emphasis on the audience being quiet during the performance. People with an Autism Spectrum, sensory or communication disorder or learning disability, those with age-related impairments and parents/carers with babies are all especially welcome.
Saint-Saëns. The Renaissance Man
Saint-Saëns:
Morceau de concert for horn and piano
Bassoon Sonata
Les odeurs de Paris
L’assassinat du duc de guise
The Carnival of the Animals
Camille Saint-Saëns’ most celebrated work, ‘The Carnival of the Animals’ is a work unlike any other, transporting the listener into a musical menagerie that includes a swan, a tortoise, lions and a plunge into a truly magical aquarium. It is presented here alongside rarely performed pieces including ‘Les odeurs de Paris’, a musical riot, with the addition of trumpets and children’s toys to convey the many smells of Paris. Early French film The Assassination of the Duke of Guise is one of the very first to feature an original film score. Written by Saint-Saëns, the music will be performed live alongside a screening of the film in a celebration of the beloved French composer.
French Gems
Maurice Ravel: Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
Camille Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata in D major, op. 166
Thomas Adès: Alchymia for clarinet quintet
Interval
André Messager: Solo de Concours for solo clarinet
César Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
French Gems
Maurice Ravel: Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
Camille Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata in D major, op. 166
Thomas Adès: Alchymia for clarinet quintet
Interval
André Messager: Solo de Concours for solo clarinet
César Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
Friday Night in Paris
Roderick Williams and Ensemble 360
Musical national treasure Roderick Williams, soloist at King Charles III’s Coronation and Singer-in-Residence with Music in the Round, returns to the Crucible Playhouse with Ensemble 360 for a magical tour through the City of Light.
Fauré’s first Piano Quintet was a labour of love that he nurtured over many years, and the song cycles and works for violin he wrote alongside it echo through this exquisitely constructed piece.
Poulenc’s kaleidoscopic sextet encompasses jazz, ragtime, pastiche of Mozart and a tribute to Ravel, whose ‘Madagascan’ songs they follow, in this programme luxuriating in the many sounds of fin de siècle Paris.
Culminating in Fauré’s intricate song-cycle, crafted from the poems of Paul Verlaine, this concert reunites Ensemble 360, with Music in the Round’s singer-in-residence Roderick Williams for the first time since 2017.
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet no. 1 in D minor, op. 89
Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Interval
Francis Poulenc: Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano in C major
Gabriel Fauré: La Bonne Chanson for Baritone, String Quintet and Piano
Close-Up: Music For Curious Young Minds
Five wind musicians and a very special guest breathe life into the wondrous world of chamber music. Created specially for young audiences, this concert combines well-known classical favourites with new works performed on flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, with singer Roderick Williams.
Ideal for 7–11 year-olds and their families.
Ensemble 360 and Steven Isserlis in Festival Finale
George Onslow: Nonet, op. 77
Gabriel Fauré: Elegie, op. 24
Interval
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: String Sextet in D minor, op.70, Souvenir de Florence
A grand work for a grand finale: captivating charm and wit from George Onslow’s Nonet. Nicknamed the ‘French Beethoven’, this is a chance to hear one of his finest and largest-scale chamber works whose five movements move through an expressive array of moods from turbulence to a jubilant conclusion.
Steven Isserlis then joins pianist Tim Horton for a heartfelt lament by Gabriel Fauré, before we sign off with Tchaikovsky’s celebratory musical postcard, Souvenir de Florence. This hugely popular string sextet by the great Russian composer features both Steven Isserlis and Ensemble 360’s cellist Gemma Rosefield, and promises to be a fitting farewell to the Festival in our anniversary year.