London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble at Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton on Thursday 27th November 2025

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London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble

Part of the Turner Sims Autumn Season 2025 Cycle

Add to my Calendar 27-11-2025 19:30 27-11-2025 21:30 36 London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble Turner Sims favourites, the London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble are joined by special guests. They present two defining 20th century works. Vaughan Williams’s early masterpiece sets the words of A E Housman. Composed in 1909, ‘On Wenlock Edge’ provides an eerie foreshadowing to the many men lost in the Great War. Tenor Mark Le Brocq, who appeared with Welsh National Opera in its highly successful production of Britten’s ‘Death in Venice’, brings his unique perspective. Pianist Anna Tilbrook joins the LMP for a work which writer Gerard McBurney described as ‘a chamber-music classic of the 20th century’.  Shostakovich’s work proved immediately popular with the public when it was first performed in September 1940.  It also won Shostakovich his first Stalin Prize, the highest decoration given at the time to the country’s most elite artists. Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Turner Sims Concert Hall
University Southampton
Salisbury Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
England

Thursday 27th November 2025
7:30 PM

Programme

Franz Schubert – String Quartet no.12 in C minor 'Quartettsatz', D.703
Ralph Vaughan Williams – On Wenlock Edge
Dmitry Shostakovich – Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op.57

Performers

Mark Le Brocq – tenor
Anna Tilbrook – piano

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Programme Note

Turner Sims favourites, the London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble are joined by special guests. They present two defining 20th century works.

Vaughan Williams’s early masterpiece sets the words of A E Housman. Composed in 1909, ‘On Wenlock Edge’ provides an eerie foreshadowing to the many men lost in the Great War. Tenor Mark Le Brocq, who appeared with Welsh National Opera in its highly successful production of Britten’s ‘Death in Venice’, brings his unique perspective.

Pianist Anna Tilbrook joins the LMP for a work which writer Gerard McBurney described as ‘a chamber-music classic of the 20th century’. Shostakovich’s work proved immediately popular with the public when it was first performed in September 1940. It also won Shostakovich his first Stalin Prize, the highest decoration given at the time to the country’s most elite artists.

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