A special one-off concert featuring a string trio from the United States of America: Ensemble Epomeo.
Ensemble Epomeo is Caroline Chin on violin; David Yang on viola; and Kenneth Woods on cello.
Programme
- Bach (arr Sikovetsky): Goldberg Variations (selection)
- Hans Gál: Trio in F-sharp minor, opus 104
- Hans Gál: Serenade in D major, opus 41
- Beethoven: Serenade in E-flat major
Tickets
£10 full and £8 concessions (£7 members of the Hans Gal Society).
Further information on the programme:
Hans Gal's string trios come from opposite ends of his long career. His virtuosic, witty and tuneful Serenade, opus 41, was written at the peak of his early career in the 1930's while teaching at the Mainz Conservatory.
His Trio in F-sharp minor, opus 104, is one of his last chamber works written during Gal's last great autumnal burst on energy that also produced his Triptych, the Fourth Symphony and the final quartets and quintets. It was not until the last two years that the American string trio, Ensemble Epomeo, gave the first known North American performances of both works, which they have just recorded for Avie Records.
Further information on the performers:
Ensemble Epomeo is an internationally touring and recording string trio, whose performances across the US, UK and Europe combine intensity, virtuosity and accessibility.
Ensemble Epomeo have developed vibrant collaborations with two leading music festivals- the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts, where their annual performances have become regular sellouts, and the Two Rivers Festival in Birkenhead, England, where they have appeared more often than any ensemble, sharing the festival spotlight with artists including the Tallis Scholars, Emma Kirkby, Craig Ogden, Noriko Ogawa and Piers Lane.
In May 2013, Ensemble Epomeo will be appearing as resident ensemble at the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a post previously held by Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble Intercontemporain and the renowned baroque ensemble. Tafelmusik. Ensemble Epomeo record for Avie Records. It may be of interest that David Yang plays a viola once owned by Joseph Joachim, the great violinist to whom Brahms dedicated his violin concerto!