Simon Callaghan & Friends at Conway Hall, London on Sunday 27th November 2016

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Simon Callaghan & Friends

Part of the Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, Autumn 2016 Season

Add to my Calendar 27-11-2016 18:30 27-11-2016 20:30 36 Simon Callaghan & Friends Director of Music Simon Callaghan brings together distinguished colleagues in a programme of chamber music greats, in a concert that will also be live-streamed. Find out more about the performers and repertoire by downloading the evening’s programme simoncallaghan.com Pre-concert talk by Robert Hugill at 5.30pm in the Brockway Room: Music among friends The development of the role of the piano in chamber music in the 19th century, with a detailed look at Faure’s Piano Quartet. Mozart’s Piano Quartet was one of the first pieces to be written for that combination, and it was music which was regarded as too difficult for amateurs. So throughout the 19th century composers (many of them pianists) would experiment with various combinations of piano and strings in chamber music, in works aimed at the new breed of virtuoso performers. Conway Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England

Sunday 27th November 2016
6:30 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K.493
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 no.3
Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quartet no.1 in C minor, Op.15

Performers

Simon Callaghan – piano
Jamie Campbell – violin
Rosalind Ventris – viola
Karel Bredenhorst – Cello

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Programme Note

Director of Music Simon Callaghan brings together distinguished colleagues in a programme of chamber music greats, in a concert that will also be live-streamed.

Find out more about the performers and repertoire by downloading the evening’s programme

simoncallaghan.com

Pre-concert talk by Robert Hugill at 5.30pm in the Brockway Room:

Music among friends

The development of the role of the piano in chamber music in the 19th century, with a detailed look at Faure’s Piano Quartet.

Mozart’s Piano Quartet was one of the first pieces to be written for that combination, and it was music which was regarded as too difficult for amateurs. So throughout the 19th century composers (many of them pianists) would experiment with various combinations of piano and strings in chamber music, in works aimed at the new breed of virtuoso performers.

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