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Berkeley Ensemble
Part of the Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, Spring 2025 Season
Add to my Calendar 30-03-2025 18:30 30-03-2025 20:30 36 Berkeley Ensemble Commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and written during the winter of 1975, Lennox Berkeley’s Wind Quintet provides the inspiration for a colourful programme of music presented to close our spring 2025 season, by the composer’s namesake, the Berkeley Ensemble. The ensemble was formed by friends in a spirit of adventure. ‘An instinctive collective’ (The Strad), its members have come together from diverse corners of musical life to make music in new ways, reach new audiences and, most importantly, explore new repertoire, be it newly written or inadvertently forgotten. Join us for our season closing ‘party’, featuring colourful, beautiful and exciting music for piano and winds! “… the high quality of the performances by the Berkeley Ensemble, a malleable group which, like the Nash Ensemble, can adapt itself to different formats and plays as if it were truly inside the music. … Well worth a listen.” —- The Sunday Telegraph Conway Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England
Programme
Francis Poulenc – Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, FP 43
Lennox Berkeley – Quintet for piano & winds
Ludwig van Beethoven – Variations on 'La ci darem la mano' from Don Giovanni, WoO 28
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat major, K.452
Performers
Simon Callaghan – piano
Berkeley Ensemble
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Programme Note
Commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and written during the winter of 1975, Lennox Berkeley’s Wind Quintet provides the inspiration for a colourful programme of music presented to close our spring 2025 season, by the composer’s namesake, the Berkeley Ensemble. The ensemble was formed by friends in a spirit of adventure. ‘An instinctive collective’ (The Strad), its members have come together from diverse corners of musical life to make music in new ways, reach new audiences and, most importantly, explore new repertoire, be it newly written or inadvertently forgotten. Join us for our season closing ‘party’, featuring colourful, beautiful and exciting music for piano and winds!
“… the high quality of the performances by the Berkeley Ensemble, a malleable group which, like the Nash Ensemble, can adapt itself to different formats and plays as if it were truly inside the music. … Well worth a listen.” —- The Sunday Telegraph
