13 March 2016 Today’s programme explores baroque repertoire for ‘recorder and basso continuo’. ‘Basso continuo’ was a distinctive feature of baroque music (music composed between roughly 1600 and 1760) and refers to the way in which the bass line in the music was organised as a chordal foundation, above which the melodic strands were composed. …
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Schubert and Tippett sonatas
Very fine concert today by pianist, Robert Bridge, playing two contrasting sonatas: Tippett no.1 and Schubert G major. How nice, too, to hear the church's fine Bluthner grand being played so expertly. Our audiences are growing and we regularly hit around the 85-90 mark these days - even on Valentine's Day! It was well worth …
Mozart Concerto premiere
Yesterday's Music in New Malden concert (the first of 2016) featured arrangements of two much-loved Mozart pieces: his Clarinet Quintet (in an anonymous version for basset clarinet and piano of 1809), and his last Piano Concerto, no 27 (in a new arrangement for piano and wind sextet by Robert Percival). An action shot of the …
Duo Realia
We were treated to an unusual programme of baroque duos for violins this afternoon - engagingly presented by Duo Realia - winners of the 2015 Trinity Laban Early Music Competition. Beatriz Carbonel and Kieran Burling presented "Duo Realia's Travels", exploring works for the two-violin combination by Telemann (his 'Lilliput Suite', which picturesquely portrays Gulliver's Travels …
Series Eight
We're planning hard - and we've transferred the website to WordPress! Our eighth series will focus, as before, on quality professional music-making. While we retain our focus on fresh musical approaches to baroque and classical repertoires that only period instruments can bring, we will be featuring (as in previous years) talented young artists at the …
