| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 23-Nov-2012 Kings Place: Hall One | Mark van de Wiel and Endymion play Brahms |
 Whenever Brahms is mentioned, songs and symphonies often come straight to mind: after all, the man was the master of all things symphonic, even his piano sonatas being called “veiled symphonies” by his mentor, Schumann. But what would a Brahms marathon be without a nod to his chamber music? In honour of such great and less performed repertoire, Kings Place enjoyed a visit from the long-running ensemble Endymion, a mix-and-match chamber group with a solid reputation, for the latest installment in the venue’s Brahms Unwrapped series.
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| 5-Feb-2012 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | SCO Chamber Concert: Brahms and Kurtág |
 Edinburgh's Queen's Hall, combining centre stalls with a horseshoe of pews on two levels, boasts a wonderful chamber music acoustic. The attentive Sunday afternoon audience for the SCO Chamber Concert had no difficulty making out every nuance of the small forces present. Jane Atkins (viola), Maximiliano Martín (clarinet) and Llŷr Williams (piano) offered an ingeniously tailored programme of late Brahms and what, happily, appears to be mid-life Kurtág.
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