The Sirius Chamber Ensemble comprising Claire Howard Race (piano), Melissa Coleman (flute), Clare Kahn (cello) and Martyn Hentschel (violin) will present a free lunch time concert featuring the Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, opus 67, by Dmitri Shostakovich and the Flute Sonata in D, opus 97 by Sergei Prokofiev.
The Sirius Chamber Ensemble focuses on the music of composers who worked under the communist regimes in the former Soviet Union. Their creativity flourished despite the repressive environment in which they lived and despite heavy censorship, fear of deportation or death, composers in this period produced some of the most profound music of the…
There are few works with titles as apocalyptic as Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour la fin du temps) which is one of the works chosen by the Sirius Chamber Ensemble for their May performance. They will also perform Ross Edwards’ Incantations for Wind Quintet and Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in B flat major opus…