The next concert will be held on 5 December at 11 am at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) at the University of Sussex. It will be given by the Brahms Horn Trio comprising:
Ben Goldscheider horn
Benjamin Baker violin
Huw Watkins piano/composer
It’s an unusualMore
Joanna MacGregor’s appointment as Music Director of Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra has been an enormous and welcome boost to classical music in the city. Personally charismatic, and a magnificentMore
The first concert of the 2021/22 season was given on 24 October by the stunning Adelphi Quartet. The audience was 115 strong, which is about half our pre-Covid attendance; not bad considering the various constraints people are functioning under. Michael Wilkinson, a longstanding Strings Attached member, has posted an excellent reviewMore
Frank Martin (1890 – 1974) Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes (1925)
Allegro moderato
Adagio
Gigue
Frank Martin was born in Geneva, the tenth child of a Calvinist, Huguenot pastor; this Christian background particularly influenced his large-scale theatrical and choral works. Much of his chamber music was written in the 1920s and 30s during which time he was heavily involved in the Geneva Chamber Music Society that he had founded. Today’s Trio comes from early in this period. His most individual music, however, started to emerge in the mid-1930s when he developed his own more tonal and rhythmically energetic variety of Schoenberg’s 12-tone system.More
Whether absence has made the heart grow fonder, or whether I am growing softer with increasing years, may be moot arguments, but there was something rather special about this superb concert by the young, immenselyMore
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