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St Michael's Church
Hay Road
Michaelchurch Escley
Herefordshire
HR2 0JW
England
Programme
Oliver Knussen – Alleluya Nativitas
Darius Milhaud – La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Andante fur eine Walze in eine kleine Orgel, K. 616
Samuel Barber – Summer Music, Op.31
Isabella Leonarda – 12 Sonatas, Op.16: no.9
Lalo Shifrin – La Nouvelle Orleans
Paul Taffanel – Wind Quintet in G minor
Performers
Ensemble Renard
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Programme Note
Founded in 2018 by musicians and friends from the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School, a wind quintet at its core, Ensemble Renard carefully curate compelling and contrasting programmes tailored to each audience, aiming to take repertoire rarely given the light of day to audiences from London to the Hebrides and beyond.
Their programme immerses the audience in a journey that explores the wind quintet genre across several geographical regions and historical periods, beginning in medieval France with Oliver Knussen’s rendition of Perotin’s Alleluya Nativitas, before crossing the Atlantic for Argentinian-American composer Lalo Shifrin’s La Nouvelle Orleans. Works by composers including Mozart, Barber and Taffanel provide an insight into the evolution of the modern day wind quintet canon, which Ensemble Renard have taken great pride in adding to over the last three years. Indeed, closing the first half is a piece written by 17th-century Nun Isabella Leonarda and arranged by Geoffrey King especially for the group’s debut album, In the Room.
