Coffee Concerts

Coffee Concert 5th December 2021 – Brahms Horn Trio – Strings Attached Review by Michael Wilkinson

The Brahms Horn Trio gave the Attenborough Centre Audience much to intrigue them in this unusual but continually interesting recital. The performers, Huw Watkins (piano), Benjamin Baker(violin) and Ben Goldscheider (horn) are consummate performers in works that demand considerable versatility.

The opening piece, Mozart’s Quintet in E flat, for horn, violin, two violas and cello, K.407, from 1782, was rearranged by Goldscheider for this trio. In its original form, there is a certain depth Continue reading Coffee Concert 5th December 2021 – Brahms Horn Trio – Strings Attached Review by Michael Wilkinson

Coffee Concert 5th December 2021 – Brahms Horn Trio – Other Reviews

 

There comes a potent moment at every live concert. When the audience are giving their thanks, admiration, and whatever else, to the performers as their final applause. Is it heartfelt? Is it diplomatically generous? Is it polite and lukewarm? It’s not just an audience verdict, it’s a human connection deepened when the vibe is good. Continue reading Coffee Concert 5th December 2021 – Brahms Horn Trio – Other Reviews

Coffee Concert 14th November 2021 – Joanna MacGregor & Brighton Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble – Strings Attached Review by Michael Wilkinson

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 magnificent Continue reading Coffee Concert 14th November 2021 – Joanna MacGregor & Brighton Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble – Strings Attached Review by Michael Wilkinson

14th November 2021 – Joanna MacGregor Piano With Brighton Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble – Programme notes by Chris Darwin

Frank Martin (1890 – 1974) Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes (1925)Print/PDF
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. Continue reading 14th November 2021 – Joanna MacGregor Piano With Brighton Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble – Programme notes by Chris Darwin