| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 19-Dec-2012 St Giles Cathedral | Red Note Ensemble: Hymn of Thanks (Transcendence) |
 St Giles’ Cathedral, at the top of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, boasts a wonderful acoustic. From the chancel of this magnificent building a string quartet, drawn from the Red Note Ensemble’s flexible and varied forces, presented a late-evening, candlelit programme of meditative music entitled, Hymn of Thanks (Transcendence).Read full review... | |
| 3-Aug-2012 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Mr. McFall's Chamber play Baltic Music |
 In Scotland, where the word 'Baltic' functions as a colloquial substitute for 'extremely cold', it's odd to come across a programme on this theme in August. Fans of the ensemble Mr. McFall's Chamber delight in such idiosyncrasies and would not be thrown to find an embrace of tangos at the programme's heart. That there were Finnish tangos might be a surprise. The eponymous Robert McFall had been introduced to Finnish tango by the late musicologist, writer and broadcaster Jan Fairley, to whose memory the concert was dedicated.
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| 2-Jun-2012 City Hall Concert Hall | Hong Kong Sinfonietta measures up to world standards in Mozart and Brahms |
 “Music from three centuries comes together in tonight’s concert,” declare the programme notes to the Hong Kong Sinfonietta performance at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall. Indeed it surveyed the best and most famous in the classical canon. What caught my attention, however, was the opening work: Frates by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Many versions of the work exist – for violin and piano; 12 solo cellos; string quartet; and string orchestra and percussion, the one dating to 1984 featured last night.
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| 20-May-2012 Wigmore Hall | Good Morning, Marylebone! Chloë Hanslip and Charles Owen at Wigmore Hall |
 Another lazy Sunday morning means another quality chamber concert for the Wigmore Hall cognoscenti. This week, their complimentary sherry was served with a cocktail of violin and piano duets, mixing the contrasting flavours of Pärt, Schubert and Richard Strauss, courtesy of child-prodigy-turned-twentysomething virtuoso Chloë Hanslip and established pianist Charles Owen.
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