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25th February 2018 – Castalian Quartet – Programme notes by Chris Darwin

Castalian Quartet
Simon Rowland-Jones viola

Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in D, Op.76 No.5

Allegretto
Largo ma non troppo. Cantabile e mesto
Menuetto. Allegro
Finale. Presto

In 1795 Haydn returned from his spectacularly successful visits to England to the relatively light duties prescribed by the new Esterházy Prince Nikolaus II. Nikolaus had abandoned Continue reading 25th February 2018 – Castalian Quartet – Programme notes by Chris Darwin

Coffee Concert 28th January 2018 – Review by Richard Amey, Worthing Herald

Coffee Concert: Amy Harman (bassoon), Adam Walker (flute), James Baillieu (piano) at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Sussex University, Sunday 28 January 2018 (11am).

Beethoven, Trio in G major WoO37 (c1786); Debussy, Syrinx for solo Flute(1913); Poulenc, Flute Sonata (1957); Dutilleux, Sarabande et Cortege or bassoon and piano (1942); Weber, Trio in G minor Op63 for Flute, Cello and Piano (1819) arr for flute, bassoon and piano.

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Coffee Concert 28th January 2018 – Review by Andrew Polmear

Amy Harman, bassoon, Adam Walker, flute, James Baillieu, piano

I was looking forward to this concert with mixed feelings. Half the concert was to be not chamber music but recital: flute, or flute and piano, or bassoon and piano, rather than trios. And the combination of flute, bassoon and piano is not one made in heaven Continue reading Coffee Concert 28th January 2018 – Review by Andrew Polmear