Tim Horton's gripping Beethoven at Sheffield Chamber Music Festival

Ensemble 360

By Steve Draper, 25 May 2022

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Reviewed at Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield on 20 May 2022

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 30 in E major, Op.109

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 31 in A flat major, Op.110

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 32 in C minor, Op.111

Wallen, The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Frances-Hoad, Invocation

Beethoven, Cello Sonata no. 5 in D major, Op.102 no.2

Ensemble 360

Tim Horton, Piano

Gemma Rosefield, Cello

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Reviewed at Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield on 20 May 2022

Copland, Duo for Flute and Piano

Weir, Airs from Another Planet

Mozart, Quintet in E flat major for Piano and Winds, K452

Ensemble 360

Juliette Bausor, Flute

James Pillai, French horn

Ursula Leveaux, Bassoon

Peter Sparks, Clarinet

Tim Horton, Piano

Symmetries in Sound: Ensemble 360 explores music and maths

Phil Parker, 13th February

Forwards? Backwards? Upside down? All three at once? From Machaut to Pärt, Ensemble 360 considers the relationship between musical structures and varieties of mathematical pattern.

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A trio of Mozart quintets from Ensemble 360

Phil Parker, 15th January

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

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A concert of masterworks from Ensemble 360 and guests

Phil Parker, 22nd May

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

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Bach at Breakfast: Ensemble 360 serve up a Goldberg feast

Phil Parker, 18th May

A concert at 07:30 am? In a cemetery chapel? It must be the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival!

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Ensemble 360’s Lark takes wing

Phil Parker, 5th February

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.

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Wind masterpieces take centre stage in Ensemble 360 Sheffield concert

Phil Parker, 22nd January

In a programmed titled Birds and Bagatelles, Ensemble 360’s wind players offered vividly characterised music in this programme of 20th-century classics of the repertoire.

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Steve Draper

After studying music at Oxford, Steve worked in education for thirty years. He has followed and been involved with music in the north of England throughout and has written classical reviews for The Yorkshire Post. Steve has a particular interest in performances in Sheffield, his home city.