This year's Corbridge Chamber Music Festival will be taking place online, with a series of concerts being streamed on the festival's YouTube channel from 24th-26th July.

The Gould Piano Trio and Robert Plane, Artistic Directors of the festival, will be joined by a select group of talented performers to present this virtual incarnation of the annual summer festival.

The content will include several concerts recorded specially for the festival at the homes of the performers, as well as some archive footage from recent pre-lockdown live events. The music presented will range from Bach to Beethoven to Boulez, and includes several solo performances as well as chamber ensembles.

There will be no charge to watch the videos online, but donations are encouraged where possible, to help secure the future of the festival during this challenging time.

Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, op. 10
Ligeti Six Bagatelles for wind quintet
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat major, op. 44

This concert will also be streamed on the Corbridge Chamber Music Festival YouTube Channel on Saturday 31st July at 7:00pm.

Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, op. 10
Ligeti Six Bagatelles for wind quintet
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat major, op. 44

This concert will also be streamed on the Corbridge Chamber Music Festival YouTube Channel on Saturday 31st July at 7:00pm.

Night Cap 1: Contemplation

An opportunity to end the day with music in a meditative mood, including John Mayer's Raga Music for Solo Clarinet.
Candlelit table seating, Cabaret style. BYO refreshments and glasses!

Night Cap 2: Upbeat!

Come and be entertained with an upbeat musical mosaic of character pieces. Candlelit table seating, Cabaret style. BYO refreshments and glasses!

Fairy Tales and Fables

Mendelssohn Scherzo from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Jana?cek Poha?dka
Schumann Märchenerzählungen (fairy tales), op. 132
Stravinsky Pas de Deux, from Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’
Watkins Four Fables (with Mayuri Boonham, dancer)

This concert with also be streamed on the Corbridge Chamber Music Festival YouTube Channel on Monday 2nd August at 3:00pm.

Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op. 76, no. 4, Sunrise
Jenkins Shivelight (world premiere)
Schubert Piano Trio in E flat major, D.929

Come and Play!
Festival String Orchestra
Robert Plane, clarinet

Calling all local amateur string players! Come and join the Festival pros for a rehearsal and performance of Pamela Harrison’s Suite for Timothy and Finzi’s ever popular Five Bagatelles, with clarinet soloist Robert Plane. Led and directed by Lucy Gould, violinist of the Gould Piano Trio.

Rehearsal: 11am-1pm
Concert: 2.30pm

Harrison Suite for Timothy
Finzi Five Bagatelles

Musicians in Residence: Quartet for the End of Time

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, op. 15
The Beatles, arr. Christian Elliott: Blackbird
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

Musicians in Residence: Taproom Session

Beethoven, Verdi and Wagner all loved their reds, Schubert enjoyed Rosé, Stravinsky was partial to Scotch, Rossini favoured Madeira, and Verdi relished Champagne. Whatever your drink of choice, join us for a relaxed evening at Lilypad, featuring live music and a chance to get to know our musicians in residence.

Musicians in Residence: Bohemia

Antonin Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, Dumky
Bela Bartók: Contrasts, BB 116

Musicians in Residence: Queen Classics

The iconic music of Queen is back, and this time it’s a whole new experience. Festival Musician Vlad Maistorovici is taking classic Queen songs and giving them a fresh twist. An homage to the late great Freddie Mercury and the amazing Queen. With Vlad’s incredible arrangements for the violin, clarinet, piano, and strings, you’ll hear songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “We Will Rock You” like never before. The energy of rock music mixed with the elegance of classical music is sure to bring the house down!

Musicians in Residence: Finale!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
Antonin Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A major, op. 81

Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, op. 70
Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie
Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132
Claude Debussy:: Le Cathédral Egloutie
Thomas Adès:: Three Berceuses from ‘The Exterminating Angel’
Mark Simpson:: Nachtstück
Olivier Messiaen:: Appel Interstellaire for solo horn

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