- Doors: 6:00 PM
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Forge Venue presents:
Berkeley Ensemble Celebrates… John Ireland (1879 – 1962)
Wednesday 16 May @ The Forge, London
Berkeley Ensemble
with
Elizabeth Burgess, piano
Anna Huntley, mezzo-soprano
The occasional ‘Berkeley Ensemble Celebrates…’ series of concerts at the Forge continues in 2012 with a composer portrait of John Ireland marking the fiftieth anniversary of his death.
Spend a May evening with the Berkeley Ensemble as they perform chamber music by John Ireland. The early sextet for clarinet, horn and strings was written under the influence of Brahms, but later works fused French Impressionism with an English sensibility to create one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century British music. Mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley joins the ensemble to perform a selection of Ireland’s songs, including intriguing unpublished parlour songs written under the pseudonym of Turlay Royce.
Programme:
‘In a May Morning’ for piano solo
Trio in D for clarinet, cello and piano
Selection of songs for mezzo-soprano and piano
Sextet for clarinet, horn and string quartet
Performance Details:
Doors: 6pm
Pre-concert talk: 6.30pm
Concert: 7.30pm
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Future Concerts at the Forge:
19th September 2012, 7.30pm: ‘Borrowing, Stealing and Remembering’
programme for winds and piano to include Mozart Quintet for piano and winds and Michael Berkeley ‘Fierce Tears’
The Berkeley Ensemble was formed in 2008 by members of Southbank Sinfonia, with the aim of championing British music and unfairly neglected works alongside the standard chamber music repertoire. It takes its name from the British composers, father and son Lennox and Michael Berkeley.
Finalists in the 2009 Royal Over-Seas League competition and selected by Making Music for the Concert Promoters’ Network, the ensemble enjoys a busy concert schedule performing in the UK and abroad, including a recent tour of China. The ensemble has worked with musicians including Sir Thomas Allen and Richard Sisson and composers Michael Berkeley, John Casken, Gabriel Prokofiev and Robin Holloway. Its work has been supported by the Malcolm Arnold and the John Ireland trusts.
The ensemble is actively involved in education work throughout the UK, working with students from primary to undergraduate level as well as collaborating with organisations including Samling and Southbank Sinfonia.
Forthcoming projects include a debut recording of British chamber music, the première of a new work by Michael Berkeley and a series of concerts to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten in 2013.
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