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Details

Christ Church
New Market Road
Nailsworth
Gloucestershire
GL6 0DQ
England

Programme

Franz Schubert – Octet in F major, D.803

Performers

Bristol Ensemble

Other concerts in this Series

Tea-Time Concert: Haydn & Schubert

Tea-Time Concert: Brahms & Mozart

Tea-Time Concert: Bach

Tea-Time Concert

Programme Note

Schubert’s celebrated masterpiece, the
Octet for wind and strings, enjoys enduring popularity for its sumptuous melodies and harmonic twists and turns. Commissioned
by a famous clarinettist of the day in 1824,
it is considered to be one of the greatest
chamber works ever composed. 

 

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