| samedi 23 mai 2026 | 14:00 |
| London Chamber Ensemble | |
| Madeleine Mitchell | Violon |
| Gordon MacKay | Violon |
| Bridget Carey | Alto |
| Joseph Spooner | Violoncelle |
The London Chamber Ensemble received outstanding reviews for their recent Howells & Wood Quartets album, one of Gramophone's recommended recordings 2024.
Their new album Charles Wood Quartets (SOMM), all première recordings, is launched at this concert with music by Wood's pupil Howells - the earlier version (1920) of 'In Gloucestershire'). Charles Wood (1866-1926) also taught Bliss, Tippett and Vaughan Williams at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music and although his choral music is well known, his finely crafted string quartets, influenced by Irish folk music, deserve to be better known and it is fitting that the LCEQ releases the complete quartets in this centenary year of his death.
Madeleine Mitchell directed the successful Naxos album ‘William Alwyn Chamber Music and Song’; they perform Alwyn's evocative ‘Winter Poems’ with a beautiful Delius work. Madeleine received an award from the Delius Society in recognition of her performances worldwide and advocacy of the music of Delius.
“superb, high quality chamber music-making” - Musical Opinion
'I love the way Madeleine Mitchell and her colleagues let the music unfold in a natural manner...The high tessitura for first violin holds no bars for the leader, who alongside her players, so fervently projects the ecstatic elasticity. The playing of the slow movement is perfection...the finale thrillingly realised.'
Adrian Edwards, Gramophone re Howells & Wood Quartets
Tickets are available from February
