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Sheffield Chamber Music Festival: Sheffield

Crucible Playhouse Norfolk Street, 55 Norfolk Street, United Kingdom

Relaxed Concert: Carnival

Saint-Saëns: Morceau de concert for horn and piano
Saint-Saëns: Bassoon Sonata
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals

For this ‘Relaxed’ concert featuring ‘The Carnival of the Animals’, doors will be left open, lights raised, a break-out space provided, and there will be less emphasis on the audience being quiet during the performance. People with an Autism Spectrum, sensory or communication disorder or learning disability, those with age-related impairments and parents/carers with babies are all especially welcome.

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival: Sheffield

Crucible Playhouse Norfolk Street, 55 Norfolk Street, United Kingdom

Saint-Saëns. The Renaissance Man

Saint-Saëns:
Morceau de concert for horn and piano
Bassoon Sonata
Les odeurs de Paris
L’assassinat du duc de guise
The Carnival of the Animals

Camille Saint-Saëns’ most celebrated work, ‘The Carnival of the Animals’ is a work unlike any other, transporting the listener into a musical menagerie that includes a swan, a tortoise, lions and a plunge into a truly magical aquarium. It is presented here alongside rarely performed pieces including ‘Les odeurs de Paris’, a musical riot, with the addition of trumpets and children’s toys to convey the many smells of Paris. Early French film The Assassination of the Duke of Guise is one of the very first to feature an original film score. Written by Saint-Saëns, the music will be performed live alongside a screening of the film in a celebration of the beloved French composer.

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival: Sheffield

Crucible Playhouse Norfolk Street, 55 Norfolk Street, United Kingdom

French Gems

Maurice Ravel: Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
Camille Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata in D major, op. 166
Thomas Adès: Alchymia for clarinet quintet
Interval
André Messager: Solo de Concours for solo clarinet
César Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival: Sheffield

Crucible Playhouse Norfolk Street, 55 Norfolk Street, United Kingdom

French Gems

Maurice Ravel: Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
Camille Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata in D major, op. 166
Thomas Adès: Alchymia for clarinet quintet
Interval
André Messager: Solo de Concours for solo clarinet
César Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival: Sheffield

Crucible Playhouse Norfolk Street, 55 Norfolk Street, United Kingdom

Friday Night in Paris
Roderick Williams and Ensemble 360

Musical national treasure Roderick Williams, soloist at King Charles III’s Coronation and Singer-in-Residence with Music in the Round, returns to the Crucible Playhouse with Ensemble 360 for a magical tour through the City of Light.

Fauré’s first Piano Quintet was a labour of love that he nurtured over many years, and the song cycles and works for violin he wrote alongside it echo through this exquisitely constructed piece.

Poulenc’s kaleidoscopic sextet encompasses jazz, ragtime, pastiche of Mozart and a tribute to Ravel, whose ‘Madagascan’ songs they follow, in this programme luxuriating in the many sounds of fin de siècle Paris.

Culminating in Fauré’s intricate song-cycle, crafted from the poems of Paul Verlaine, this concert reunites Ensemble 360, with Music in the Round’s singer-in-residence Roderick Williams for the first time since 2017.

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet no. 1 in D minor, op. 89
Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Interval
Francis Poulenc: Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano in C major
Gabriel Fauré: La Bonne Chanson for Baritone, String Quintet and Piano

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival: Sheffield

Crucible Playhouse Norfolk Street, 55 Norfolk Street, United Kingdom

Close-Up: Music For Curious Young Minds

Five wind musicians and a very special guest breathe life into the wondrous world of chamber music. Created specially for young audiences, this concert combines well-known classical favourites with new works performed on flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, with singer Roderick Williams.

Ideal for 7–11 year-olds and their families.

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival: Sheffield

Crucible Playhouse Norfolk Street, 55 Norfolk Street, United Kingdom

Ensemble 360 and Steven Isserlis in Festival Finale

George Onslow: Nonet, op. 77
Gabriel Fauré: Elegie, op. 24
Interval
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: String Sextet in D minor, op.70, Souvenir de Florence

A grand work for a grand finale: captivating charm and wit from George Onslow’s Nonet. Nicknamed the ‘French Beethoven’, this is a chance to hear one of his finest and largest-scale chamber works whose five movements move through an expressive array of moods from turbulence to a jubilant conclusion.

Steven Isserlis then joins pianist Tim Horton for a heartfelt lament by Gabriel Fauré, before we sign off with Tchaikovsky’s celebratory musical postcard, Souvenir de Florence. This hugely popular string sextet by the great Russian composer features both Steven Isserlis and Ensemble 360’s cellist Gemma Rosefield, and promises to be a fitting farewell to the Festival in our anniversary year.

Music in the Round

Dagenham Park Church of England School School Road

Paul Rissmann: The Chimpanzees of Happytown; Giles Andreae (words), Guy Parker-Rees (illustrations)

Music in the Round

Dagenham Park Church of England School School Road

Paul Rissmann: The Chimpanzees of Happytown; Giles Andreae (words), Guy Parker-Rees (illustrations)

Jordans Music Club: Buckinghamshire

Jubilee Hall, Seer Green School Lane, Seer Green, Buckinghamshire, England

Charles Villiers Stanford: Fantasy no. 1 for Clarinet and String Quartet
John Ireland: Sextet for Clarinet, Horn and String Quartet
Interval
Rebecca Clarke: Two pieces for Viola and Cello
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115

Music in the Round: Doncaster

Cast, Main Space Waterdale, Doncaster, England

Benjamin Britten: Phantasy Quartet op. 2
Edward Elgar: Andante and Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet D Major, K. 499, Hoffmeister
Gerald Finzi: interlude for Oboe and String Quartet
Interval
Rebecca Clarke: Poem for String Quartet
Arnold Bax: Oboe Quintet

Music in the Round: Barnsley

All Saints’ Church, Darton 3 Barnsley Road, Darton, Barnsley, England

Benjamin Britten: Phantasy Quartet op. 2
Edward Elgar: Andante and Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet D Major, K. 499, Hoffmeister
Gerald Finzi: Interlude for Oboe and String Quartet
Rebecca Clarke: Poem for String Quartet
Arnold Bax: Oboe Quintet

Music in the Round: Sheffield

Crucible Playhouse Norfolk Street, 55 Norfolk Street, United Kingdom

Pavel Haas: Suite for Oboe and Piano, op.17
Leos Janáček: In the Mists
Interval
Pavel Haas: Wind Quintet, op. 10
Leos Janáček: Mládí (Youth) for Wind Sextet

Music in the Round: Nottinghamshire

Mansfield Palace Leeming Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England

Paul Rissmann: The Chimpanzees of Happytown; Giles Andreae (words), Guy Parker-Rees (illustrations), Paul Rissmann (music)

Music in the Round: Nottinghamshire

Mansfield Palace Leeming Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Maurice Ravel: Quartet in F Major
Interval
Charles Villiers Stanford: Fantasy for Horn and Strings in A minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Quintet for piano and strings in C minor

Chichester Chamber Concerts: Chichester

Assembly Room, Chichester North Street, Chichester, England

Sergei Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes, op. 34
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
Interval
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, op. 44

Music in the Round: East Riding of Yorkshire

Junction Goole Paradise Place, Goole, United Kingdom

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No. 1 for solo violin in G minor, BWV 1001
Bela Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117
Interval
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 1 for solo violin in B minor, BWV 1002

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