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Red Violin festival: Violins of Hope - London Chamber Ensemble
Howells + Heggie/Scheer Intonations - European Premiere
Add to my Calendar 17-10-2024 19:30 17-10-2024 21:30 36 Red Violin festival: Violins of Hope - London Chamber Ensemble The well established London Chamber Ensemble presents an appealing Anglo-American programme, a Red Violin festival highlight, including the European première of the haunting song cycle Intonations by the wellknown US partnership of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer (Inclduing It's a Wonderful Life for ENO), with Opera North rising star Sian Griffiths and strings, based on The Violins of Hope - the instruments rescued and restored from the Holocaust. The London Chamber Ensmeble Quartet also launch their new album of quartets by Howells and his teacher Charles Wood for SOMM with the beautiful 'In Gloucestershire' of 1923, recently discover. Their previous album was highly praised and no.2 in the Classical Charts. "An evening of superb chamber-music-making" Musical Opinion. CD SIGNING AFTER THE CONCERT The Venue - Leeds Conservatoire, Leeds DD/MM/YYYYDetails
The Venue - Leeds Conservatoire
3 Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
England
Tickets
Prices: £20.50-£22.50 full price
Season tickets: £10 Under 30's/Students/Unwaged
Booking line: 0113 222 3434
Book Tickets
Programme
Herbert Howells – Quartet 'In Gloucestershire' (1923)
Herbert Howells – 3 Pieces, Op.28: Luchinushka (arr. string quartet by Madeleine Mitchell)
Ralph Vaughan-Williams – Folk song for voice and violin
Jake Heggie – Intonations
Performers
Madeleine Mitchell – violin
Gordon MacKay – violin
Bridget Carey – viola
Joseph Spooner – Cello
Siân Griffiths – mezzo-soprano
Chloë Hanslip – violin
Shing Hong Chow – violin
Programme Note
The well established London Chamber Ensemble presents an appealing Anglo-American programme, a Red Violin festival highlight, including the European première of the haunting song cycle Intonations by the wellknown US partnership of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer (Inclduing It's a Wonderful Life for ENO), with Opera North rising star Sian Griffiths and strings, based on The Violins of Hope - the instruments rescued and restored from the Holocaust. The London Chamber Ensmeble Quartet also launch their new album of quartets by Howells and his teacher Charles Wood for SOMM with the beautiful 'In Gloucestershire' of 1923, recently discover. Their previous album was highly praised and no.2 in the Classical Charts.
"An evening of superb chamber-music-making" Musical Opinion.
CD SIGNING AFTER THE CONCERT
