The London Bridge Ensemble are delighted to present their third festival of chamber music and song, as ever featuring masterpieces of the repertoire alongside less familiar but equally rewarding compositions. Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann rub shoulders with Bartók and Martinů and there’s a Romantic string quartet by Bridge, from whom the Ensemble takes its name.
As well as concerts at the Discovery Centre, there’s a late evening concert at the lovely St Lawrence Church, an event for families and a masterclass featuring some of the region’s budding young performers.
Full details Winchester Chamber Music Festival 2010: 23rd April - 25th April
Following their recent Schumann recording for Sonimage Classics at Wyastone Concert Hall, plans are now well underway for this release during 2010, to coincide with the bicentenary of the composer's birth.
More information about Sonimage Classics can be found here
In response to the critical acclaim which followed the release of the ensemble's first CD of works by Frank Bridge (which included recommendations by both Gramophone and International Record Review), part two of their survey of the composer's early works will be recorded later this year on the Dutton label.
Reviews of "Frank Bridge Songs and Chamber Music" can be found here.
Extracts can be heard here.
Read the full review, published in the Halifax Courier, of the ensembles concert for Halifax Philharmonic Club at Square Chapel Centre for the Arts on 6th February 2009
Winchester Chamber Music Festival, presented by the London Bridge Ensemble, is back for its second year and once again features a rich and diverse programme of chamber music and song. Full details here.