Coffee Concerts

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

Coffee Concert 24th October 2021 – Adelphi Quartet – Strings Attached Review by Michael Wilkinson

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, immensely Continue reading Coffee Concert 24th October 2021 – Adelphi Quartet – Strings Attached Review by Michael Wilkinson