Artists
- Nash Ensemble
- Simon Crawford-Phillipspiano duo
- Alasdair Beatsonpiano duo
- Benjamin Nabarroviolin
- Jonathan Stoneviolin
- Lars Anders Tomterviola
- Adrian Brendelcello
- Graham Mitchelldouble bass
- Philip Cobbtrumpet
Woman at the Piano (1875–1876) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
Saint-Saëns’s quirky Septet for trumpet, piano and strings was composed for a Parisian chamber music society called La Trompette in the 1880s. It appears here alongside the ravishing fairytale magic of Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye and string chamber works by Fauré and Debussy.