The ever-popular “A Magnificent Night at St. Dominic’s Church” series returns for its final concert of the season! British oboe master Nicholas Daniel will join the Macao Orchestra on the evening of 22 May, performing a selection of oboe works. Seize this rare opportunity and enjoy an unforgettable oboe night in early summer! Widely regarded […]
Music lovers might be forgiven for mistaking composer Arnold Schoenberg for the ‘Big Bad Wolf” of classical music but in his 1899 Romantic tone poem, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), his music purrs as sweetly as a kitten. This lush and lyrical masterpiece crowns a night with the English String Orchestra also featuring beautiful and evocative works by […]
We’re delighted to welcome Nicholas Daniel to the 2026 festival, one of Britain’s best-known musicians as well as being one of the world’s great oboists. Nick joins forces with celebrated composer and pianist Huw Watkins for a very special lunchtime event packed with incredible British chamber music and an event not to be missed! Thea […]
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875—1912): Nonet in F minor, Op. 2 (1894)
Ethel Smyth (1858—1944): Variations on Bonny Sweet Robin for flute, oboe and piano 'Ophelia's Song' (1927)
Schumann, Studien in kanonischer Form, op. 56, arr. for oboe, cello and piano Beethoven, String Trio in E? major, Op. 3 ---------------------- Saint-Saëns, Oboe Sonatain D major, Op. 166 Schumann, Piano Quartet in E? major, Op. 47
Musgrave, Cantilena for oboe and string trio Bach, Goldberg Variations arr. for String Trio by Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Musgrave, Take Two Oboes Crusell, Clarinet Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 2, nr. 1 Poulenc, Sonata for Two Clarinets FP 7 Mozart, Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478
Musgrave, Impromptu no. 1 for flute and oboe Barrière, Sonata in G major for cello and double bass Mozart, Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370/368b Beethoven, Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20
Nicholas Daniel OBE, long recognised as one of the world’s great oboists and one of Britian’s best-known musicians, has significantly enlarged the repertoire for his instrument with the commissioning of hundreds of new works. He joins forces with celebrated composer and pianist Huw Watkins for a celebration of British chamber music. Huw Watkins, Five Welsh […]
Flexible in format and strikingly diverse in repertoire, the Orsino Ensemble comprises some of Britain’s finest wind players. ‘This is all-star playing of the highest level’, noted the Guardian in a review of its 2021 debut album. Its latest Wigmore Hall recital includes Nielsen’s delightful Wind Quintet and the UK première of Mark Simpson’s The Dictionary of Obscure […]
Founded by Nicholas Daniel and colleagues from the magnificent Britten Sinfonia, the Britten Oboe Quartet is known for its imaginative programming and music making informed by mutual empathy and understanding. Its debut recording included what the Guardian greeted as ‘a wonderfully relaxed and refined account’ of Mozart’s Oboe Quartet K370 and ‘a strikingly mysterious one’ […]