Details
St Mary's Church
Church Road
Barnes
London
SW13 9HL
England
Programme
Darius Milhaud – Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Op.157b
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Much Ado About Nothing, Op.11
Joseph Holbrooke – Mezzotints, Op.55
Igor Stravinsky – The Soldier's Tale: suite
Performers
Lucy Gould – violin
Robert Plane – clarinet
Benjamin Frith – piano
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Programme Note
The programme draws upon music for the stage, in all of its forms. The suites by Milhaud and Korngold are based on incidental music for plays. Holbrooke’s Butterfly of the Ballet harks back to the composer’s music hall roots, a medium in which both his parents worked, and in which he was immersed as a child. Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale was ‘to be read, played and danced’ by a small troupe of actors and musicians; in this programme it is Stravinsky’s own arrangement for trio that will be presented.
The Gould Piano Trio - of which both Lucy and Benjamin are members - has been compared to the great Beaux Arts Trio for their “musical fire” and “dedication to the genre” and has remained at the forefront of the international chamber music scene for over 25 years. The partnership between Robert and the Trio stretches back over the same period.