Following on from last year's rapturous reception of Wallen's Concerto Grosso, Chineke! Chamber Ensemble will give the world premiere of a brand new septet commissioned by Cambridge Music Festival.

PROGRAMME

Coleridge Taylor
Clarinet Quintet
Errollyn Wallen
New work (CMF commission)
Beethoven
Septet

As part of the plainsightSOUND project, Decus ensemble performs music by Black British and African classical composers at Sutton House.

Joseph Boulogne String Quartet No 3 in G minor
Haydn Divertimento in C, Adagio and Variations
Errollyn Wallen New work
R Strauss (arr. Franz Hasenoehrl) Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!
Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20

Welcome back to Chineke!, St George’s resident orchestra, and Europe’s first professional orchestra comprising a majority of black and minority ethnic musicians, founded by the pioneering double bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE.

This will be their fourth visit and this varied programme performed by the Chineke! Ensemble is set to be just as thrilling. It features two beautiful movements from a recently discovered Haydn Divertimento, a virtuoso arrangement of Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel and a new work by Errollyn Wallen whose Concerto Grosso made such an impact here last November. Beethoven’s ever popular Septet, with its famous Minuet movement also used in his Piano Sonata in G completes the programme.

‘Chineke! could deepen and enrich classical music in the UK for generations’ SIR SIMON RATTLE

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Director: Robert Fokkens
The Contemporary Music Group explores vocal and instrumental music by three major figures in British music, Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir, Belize-born composer and song-writer Errollyn Wallen, and Wales-based flautist and composer Lynne Plowman

WORLD PREMIERE of a setting of Terese Svoboda's poem ORLANDO IS US

In Wigmore "Lates" series
More details TBC

World premiere of a setting of ROUNDEL by Vera Brittain

performed by J'nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
Roderick Williams, baritone
Shannonn McGinnis, piano