Venue: Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield

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

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Phil Parker, 22 Jan

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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Russian spring breaks early in the Crucible Playhouse

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Phil Parker, 10 Jan

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

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Stephen Hough: old-school virtuosity without the showmanship

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Phil Parker, 29 Nov

Mary Poppins would surely have a word for Sir Stephen Hough’s Crucible Playhouse recital... and she’d be right.

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Leonore Piano Trio: effortlessly impeccable in Sheffield

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Phil Parker, 08 Oct

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

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Grief and joy vie for supremacy in Ensemble 360’s season opener

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Phil Parker, 18 Sep

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

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Rapturous devotion: Steven Isserlis and friends in Sheffield

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Phil Parker, 23 May

Late works, shadowed by death but transfigured by joy, leave the Sheffield audience enthralled at the playing of the Isserlis-Duval-Rushdie Momen trio.

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