Messiaen Roundtable: Leading Messiaen scholar Professor Christopher Dingle (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) joins musicians from Ensemble 360 for this roundtable discussion exploring one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century: Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
Gideon Klein: Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello
Leo Smit: Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano
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Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Antonin Dvořák, arr. Matthews: Love Songs
Claude Debussy: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Malllarmé
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Modeste Mussorgsky: The Nursery (selection)
Claude Debussy: Quartet in G minor, op. 10
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI:52
Johannes Brahms: Four Ballades, op. 10
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Arnold Schönberg: Suite, op. 25
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 15 in D major, op. 28, Pastoral
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata no. 3 in A major, op. 69
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio no. 4 in B flat, op. 11, Gassenhauer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Quintet in E flat major, K. 407
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet no. 4 in G minor, K. 516
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
Claude Debussy: En blanc et noir
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Claude Debussy: En blanc et noir
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
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Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
With Claire Booth (soprano)
Judith Weir: King Harold's Saga
Harrison Birtwistle: Cortege for 14 musicians
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Johannes Brahms: Serenade no. 1 in D major, op. 11
Morton Feldman: Why Patterns? (1978)
Samuel Beckett: Rockabye
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Samuel Beckett: Not I
Morton Feldman: Samuel Beckett, Words and Music
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 5 in F major, op. 24, Spring
Ludwig van Beethoven: String quartet op. 18 no. 4 in C minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet in E flat major, op. 20
Maurice Ravel, arr. Strivens: Shéhérazade
Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, op. 67
Claude Debussy: Danses Sacrée et Profane
Maurice Ravel, arr. Strivens: Shéhérazade
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Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp, L. 137
Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, op. 67
Ensemble 360's horn player, Naomi Atherton, joins three of the finest folk musicians working today to perform a new suite of tunes, crafted from fragments of birdsong recorded on woodland walks by the brilliant fiddle player and composer Miranda Rutter.
Benjamin Britten: Phantasy Quartet op. 2
Henry Purcell, realized by Benjamin Britten: She Loves and She Confesses Too
Henry Purcell, realized by Benjamin Britten: Oh Solitude
Henry Purcell, realized by Benjamin Britten: Bess of Bedlam
Colin Matthews: Seascapes
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Oliver Knussen: Whitman Settings
William Walton: Piano Quartet in D minor
Felix Mendelssohn: Song without Words, op. 109
Felix Mendelssohn: Mendelssohn Songs without words, op. 62, no. 6, Spring Song
Felix Mendelssohn: Songs without words, op. 19b, no. 6 Venetian Gondola Song
Sergey Rachmaninov: Vocalise, op.34, no. 14
Johannes Brahms: Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano in E flat major, op. 40
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Oliver Knussen: Songs without Voices
Ernő Dohnányi: Sextet in C major, op. 37
Julian Philips: Henny Penny
Song Cycle devised by Sheffield Schools project
Richard Strauss: String Sextet from Capriccio, op. 85
Ellen Sargen: New Work
Jean Sibelius: En Saga, op. 9, reconstructed for chamber ensemble
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Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll for chamber orchestra
Richard Strauss, arr. Ledger: Four Last Songs