We got back late last night from a wonderful performance for Chipping Campden Concerts in the local school hall there. Really great audience, smiling faces all round, and some very good feedback. We were delighted to be there – our first time. The programme was a selection box of french music, including Ibert, Françaix, Milhaud and Ravel, and breaking the pattern with Mozart’s Serenade in C minor. We particularly loved the Françaix and Milhaud last night – must try to perform those more often, as they’re beautiful pieces!
The NLCE featured on BBC Radio 3′s In Tune programme with Sean Rafferty, joined by composer Sally Beamish and music historian Dr Fiona Elliott.
We were previewing our “Mozart, Mechanical Marvels and More…” programme which took place last night, 27th July, to a packed house at Wigmore Hall. With a fascination for the latest technology in Mozart’s Vienna in 1790, we commissioned new realisations of four of his miniatures written for mechanical instruments. Composers Sally Beamish, Julian Philips, Philip Cashian and Martin Butler all made new arrangements of these pieces, and Sally also wrote a set of variations upon her theme. Sitting alongside that in the Wigmore concert were Ligeti’s Bagatelles for quintet, and John Woolrich’s Book of Studies I, including miniatures such as “Clockwork Chorale”. The links are clear!
Lastly, we were joined by piano superstar Angela Hewitt for the sublime Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat.
Listen to us on BBC here, talking about the projects, the historical background, and performing realisations by Sally Beamish and Martin Butler.
On 27th July the NLCE teams up with Angela Hewitt to perform the famous Mozart Piano and Wind Quintet in E flat K452, plus four new realisations of Mozart miniatures for mechanical instruments, by some of the UK’s best composers: Julian Philips, Sally Beamish, Philip Cashian and Martin Butler. This takes a fresh look at the age-old question of linking old music with new – something that the NLCE has pioneered for the last ten years.
Programme
Mozart – Adagio & Allegro in F minor for mechanical organ K594 (realised for wind quintet by Martin Butler)
Mozart – Adagio in C for glass harmonica K356 (realised for wind quintet by Sally Beamish)
Mozart – Fantasia in F minor for mechanical organ K608 (realised for wind quintet by Julian Philips)
Ligeti – Six Bagatelles for wind quintet
Woolrich – A Book of Studies Set I for wind quintet
Mozart –Andante in F for mechanical organ K616 (realised for wind quintet by Philip Cashian)
Mozart – Quintet in Eb for piano and winds K452
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We got back late last night from a wonderful performance for Chipping Campden Concerts in the local school hall there. Really great audience, smiling faces all round, and some very good feedback. We were delighted to be there – our first time. The programme was a selection box of french music, including Ibert, Françaix, Milhaud and Ravel, and breaking the pattern with Mozart’s Serenade in C minor. We particularly loved the Françaix and Milhaud last night – must try to perform those more often, as they’re beautiful pieces!