Saturday 1 April 2023

John Turner Birthday Concert

To include:
John Turner, recorder
Stephen Bettaney, piano

McCABE: Domestic Life, for recorder and piano
Also includes music by J S Bach, Ellis, Fitzgerald, Gregson, Handel, Mozart, Pehkonen, Pitfield, Rawsthorne, Steele and Walker

Monday 3 April 2023

Manchester Mid-Day Concerts

I Musicanti
Leon Bosch, conductor
Martin Roscoe, piano

McCABE: Sam Variations
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, 'Trout'

Wednesday 12 April 2023

I Musicanti

I Musicanti:
Tamás András, violin
Benedict Holland, violin
Robert Smissen, viola
Richard Harwood, cello
Leon Bosch, double bass
Martin Roscoe, piano

Louise Farrenc: String Quintet Op 38
McCABE: Sam Variations
McCABE: Pueblo
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D 667, 'Trout'

Here the flexible ensemble champions a quintet by the talented French composer Louise Farrenc, and two works by John McCabe: his Variations on his own theme tune for the TV series Sam was premiered by the Schubert Ensemble in 1989 while Bosch himself commissioned the short 1986 solo double bass piece Pueblo, inspired by the American desert.

Friday 25 August 2023

Julian van Mellaerts and the Solem Quartet

Julian van Mellaerts, baritone
Solem Quartet

McCABE: Silver Nocturnes
Music by Bartók, Janáček and Roxanna Panufnik