Details
St Andrew's Church
Fore Street
Moretonhampstead
Devon
TQ13 8NN
England
Tickets
Prices: £20, £8, free
Book Tickets
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in B flat major 'Gassenhauer', Op.11
Louise Farrenc – Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op.44
Camille Pepin – Snow, moon and flowers
Per Nørgård – Trio no.2 'Spell' (1973)
Performers
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Programme Note
Winner at London's prestigious ROSL competition, the Delphine Trio is fast making a name for itself on the UK's chamber music scene.
Founded in 2020 at the Royal College of Music in London, the Delphine Trio displays a combination of individual instrumental talent, intelligent and curious music-making, and a passion for diverse repertoire. The trio brings together three passionate young musicians from opposite ends of the globe: Australian clarinetist Magdalenna Krstevska, Dutch cellist Jobine Siekman and pianist Roelof Temmingh, hailing from South Africa.
Their programme is a mesmerising showcase of the great variety of music available to this unique combination of clarinet, cello and piano.
Two great 19th-century composers bookend the concert, which opens with Beethoven's renowned "Gassenhauer Trio" and closes with the Clarinet Trio of French composer and virtuoso pianist Louise Farrenc – also marking the 150th anniversary of her death, which falls this year.
Before the interval, the trio performs the miraculous Spellby Per Nørgård, a work with a truly unique harmonic and rhetorical language, totally gripping from start to finish. The performance is dedicated to Nørgård, who died earlier this year at the age of 92, and who described Spellas "secretive, lyrical, exhilarated, violent, melancholy, festive – like cloud formations forming pictures and breaking up again".
After the interval comes Snow, Moon and Flowers by award-winning contemporary French composer Camille Pépin, who draws her musical inspiration from the close study of colours in nature and painting in particular. Snow, Moon and Flowers is comprised of ten short episodes inspired by the One Hundred Views of Edo, a series of woodblock prints by 19th-century Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige.
