Featuring Michael Howell of Channel 4's The Piano.
Favourite classics for strings - Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending, Delius On hearing the first cuckoo on spring - and voices - Barber Agnus Dei Adagio for choir, Elgar Agnus Dei (Nimrod from Enigma Variations) for choir.
New House in Hanney, Oxfordshire plays host to a charming afternoon of intimate music, delicious food and wonderful company.
Bach's Musical Offering grew out of the famous meeting with Frederick The Great in 1747 and ’the royal theme’ - such an amazing variety of short canons work so well for violin, flute and cello with harpsichord.
The "Great" Mass in C Minor has long been a favourite of players and audiences. Written between 1782 and 1783, Mozart's most ambitious mass setting features some of the most vivacious melodies and vocal acrobatics from the master from Salzburg, but the piece was left incomplete. Emperor. The very word conjures up magnificence, pomp, ceremony, power, nobility, majesty. All these qualities are present in Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto. And the solo part is dazzling!
The "Great" Mass in C Minor has long been a favourite of players and audiences. Written between 1782 and 1783, Mozart's most ambitious mass setting features some of the most vivacious melodies and vocal acrobatics from the master from Salzburg, but the piece was left incomplete.
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