| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 20-Apr-2012 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Scottish Ensemble in Edinburgh: A journey backwards in time from Ligeti to Bach |
 There is something delightfully non-prescriptive about the word “ensemble”, admitting of many combinations of performers and types of music. It was this notion of flexibility that came to the fore in Friday night’s concert in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. In this, the last of the Scottish Ensemble’s series of creative, time-travelling programmes, we journeyed from Hungary in the 1960s to Cöthen in the early 1700s.Read full review... | |
| 10-Nov-2011 University of Nottingham, Lakeside Arts Centre: Djanogly Recital Hall | Fitzwilliam Quartet give revelatory performance of Bruckner's String Quintet at Nottingham University |
| Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge consists of 15 fugues (the last unfinished) and 4 canons, with no instrumentation specified - hence the subject of much discussion and controversy. The Fitzwilliam Quartet chose to play three of the fugues, beginning with the ‘simplest’, where the theme of the 14 completed fugues is presented. Read full review... | |
| 7-Mar-2011 Barbican Centre: Hall | Fantastic Bruckner Quintet |
 Heath Quartet – Oliver Heath, Cerys Jones, Gary Pomeroy, Christopher Murray, with Adam Newman
Before Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO embarked on Messiaen's 'Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorem' and Bruckner's 9th Symphony, there was a free concert in the Guildhall Artists at the Barbican series, in which the Heath Quartet and Adam Newman treated us to a truly enchanting performance of Bruckner’s Quintet. The quintet does not receive as many performances as it deserves, and often all you get is the glorious Adagio on its own as a piece for string orchestra. And sometimes you feel that chamber performers do not really understand Bruckner: this being his only mature chamber work, they may not be so familiar with his symphonic writing. But on this occasion it sounded as though the players had really thought through and discovered the structure, the sense and the emotional heart of the piece.
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