Britten: 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op.49 Allie Daniel: Reader Nicholas Daniel: Oboe Schumann: Abendlied 3’ Nicholas Daniel: oboe Katya Apekisheva: piano Schubert: Sonata in Bb Major, D960 45’ Katya Apekisheva: piano
Schubert: Notturno for piano trio, D897 Jack Liebeck: violin Ashok Klouda: cello Danny Driver: piano Britten: Suite for violin and piano, Op. 6 Jack Liebeck: violin Katya Apekisheva: piano Huw Watkins: Oboe Quartet (world première) Nicholas Daniel: oboe Jack Liebeck: violin Ting-Ru Lai: viola Ashok Klouda: cello Britten: Notturno 5’ Katya Apekisheva: piano Schubert: Fantasie […]
Schubert: Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major, D487 Jack Liebeck: violin Ting-Ru Lai: viola Ashok Klouda: cello Katya Apekisheva: piano Holloway: Cor Anglais Quintet (world première) Nicholas Daniel: cor anglais Jack Liebeck: violin Ben Roskams: violin Ting-Ru Lai: viola Ashok Klouda: cello Britten: Cabaret Songs Allie Daniel: voice Danny Driver: piano Interval Shakespeare (from […]
Nicholas Daniel – oboe Amy Harman – bassoon Antonio Oyarzabal – piano Celebrating 20th-century masters and overlooked gems, this programme pairs Francis Poulenc’s iconic trio with spirited works by British composers Madeleine Dring and Pamela Harrison.
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 […]
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with Nicholas Daniel, oboe, and Huw Watkins, piano. Helen Grime Three miniatures Francis Poulenc Sonate Benjamin Britten Cuckoo, Two Insect pieces, Cat and Mouse Huw Watkins Five Welsh Folksongs Camille Saint-Saëns Sonate
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’ […]
Britten’s enchanting Phantasy Quartet, known for its captivating interplay between musicians, starts this afternoon’s concert with Nicholas Daniel’s Britten Oboe Quartet. Alongside this work sits Mozart’s dazzling Oboe Quartet plus two more recent compositions – Huw Watkins’ Oboe Quartet, which will receive its premiere this summer, and Jacqueline Shave’s haunting and thought-provoking take on traditional […]
The catastrophe of the Second World War and the consequences of it shaped both works in this powerful lunchtime programme. Renée Fleming, one of the great voices of our time, joins an exceptional line-up of instrumentalists. She takes centre stage in a chamber-scale version of Richard Strauss’s 4 Last Songs, valedictory pieces created under the […]
The season ends with a flourish – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s joyful Quintet for piano and winds opens the evening, paired with Madeleine Dring’s sparkling Trio and Amy Beach’s expressive Invocation. Culminating with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Nonet, a thoughtfully crafted work that weaves a sense of celebration to the final concert, this is chamber music on a […]