The Iron Cockerel Sings
Polina Leschenko piano
Emer McDonough flute
Nicholas Daniel oboe
Joy Farrall clarinet
Andrew Webster bass clarinet
Sarah Burnett bassoon
Stephen Bell horn
John Woolrich The Iron Cockerel Sings
Gyorgy Kurtag Wind Quintet
Janacek Mladi
Britten Movement for Wind Sextet
Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano and wind
The brilliance of Mozart's music for winds is encapsulated in his piano quintet, making a virtue of the instruments' disparate sound qualities in writing that is both dashingly soloistic and richly homogenous. Add a true bass instrument - the bass clarinet - to the ensemble, as Woolrich, Janacek and Britten have done, and this undervalued instrumental combination shines still brighter. Janacek's sextet celebrates youth and childhood memories, and shares the programme with an appropriately youthful work from Benjamin Britten, completed in his 17th year.
Dates
Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh Church
Monday 23 June
7.30pm
