Pianist Maria Raspopova joins the Omega Ensemble for their September performance, replacing Daniel de Borah who has had to withdraw from the concert due to unforeseen circumstances. The concert repertoire remains the same. At the start of the twentieth century, music throughout Europe was a melting pot of styles and influences, with composers holding on…
Special guest, viola player Ella Brinch, will join violinist Ursula Nelius, cellist Paul Stender and pianist Chris Cartner who make up the Reservoir Trio in December to perform two legendary piano quartets. Mozart’s Piano Quartet no 1 in G minor, K 478, is considered to be the genesis of music for this combination, and is a…
Be spooked with The Reservoir Trio’s mid-winter programme which explores music inspired by both the earth and the world of the supernatural. Beethoven’s D major trio has acquired the nickname Ghost based on its “strangely scored and undeniably eerie-sounding slow movement”. Its outer movements are, however, completely typical of Beethoven’s ‘middle period’, and consist of music which…