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Ensemble 360 and soprano Claire Booth test to the limits the definition of ‘chamber music’ in this richly orchestral closing concert of the 2026 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

Fretwork bring the expected and the startlingly unexpected to Sheffield in a revealing evening of music for viol consort. 

Ensemble 360’s opening concert of their Sheffield spring season reveals the rich variety present in three very different Mozart quintets.

Is there a difference between music composed for films and music used in films? Can the former have a life beyond film? The Piatti Quartet looks for answers.

From Bach to the American Minimalists (and some of their friends and acquaintances) on Shani Diluka’s journey in search of transcendence.

Another day, another impeccable concert by Ensemble 360 and friends at this year’s Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

Ensemble 360’s Music in the Round concert is a homage to the 20th-century English industrialist Walter Willson Cobbett... and also to the enduring popularity of The Lark Ascending. 

Horton and Gavrić take in swooning late Romanticism and brittle Soviet-era irony before unleashing the power of the Russian spring

Slow movements steal the show in the Leonore Piano Trio’s superlative Music in the Round recital in Sheffield. 

Ensemble 360 offer a game of two halves at the Sheffield Crucible Playhouse, pairing works by Pavel Haas and Leoš Janáček. 

Saint-Saëns’ music offers artistry and beauty without the intrusion of personal feeling – which he abhorred – as this mesmerising concert by Ensemble 360 confirms.

Can you have too much Rachmaninov all in one go? On the basis of this tremendous Sheffield Chamber Music Festival recital, evidently not. 

Autumn colours of late Brahms illuminated this November evening in the company of Ensemble 360, before the concert concludes with Dohnányi at his most subversive.