Chamber Music
Intimate concerts showcase the brilliance and creativity of our featured artists
Our Resident Artists take centre stage in our chamber music concerts, joined by friends and collaborators for both cherished favourites and experimental projects.
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Steve Reich at 90: Triple Quartet + After Dark
Performers
Carducci Quartet
Ligeti Quartet
Solem Quartet
Repertoire
Steve Reich: Different trains arr. for string orchestra (UK premiere); WTC 9/11 for string quartet & pre-recorded tape; Triple Quartet vers. for 3 string quartets live
Jean Rondeau, Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford
Performers
Thomas Dunford lute
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
Jean Rondeau harpsichord
Repertoire
Programme includes: Works by Marais, Forqueray & Couperin
L Couperin: Prélude in E, G.14
F Couperin: Prélude from Suite No.1 in E minor from Pièces de violes
Marais: Feste champêtre from Suite d'un goût étranger, Pièces de viole, Bk.4; Marche persane dite la Savigny from Suite No.7 in E minor, Pièces de viole, Bk.5; Le tourbillon from Suite d'un goût étranger, Pièces de viole, Bk.4; Tombeau de Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe from Suite No.6 in E minor, Pièces de viole, Bk.2
de Visée: Allemande; Courante; Sarabande; Chaconne from Suite No.7 in D minor, Pièces de théorbe et de luth
Marais: Le grand ballet from Suite No.1 in A minor, Pièces de viole, Bk.3; Couplets des folies (Les folies d'Espagne) from Suite No.1 in D minor, Pièces de viole, Bk.2; Les voix humaines from Suite No.3 in D, Pièces de viole, Bk.2
F Couperin: La favorite (Chaconne à deux tems en rondeau) from Pièces de clavecin, Ordre No.3
Forqueray: La Sylva (Très tendrement); Jupiter (Modérément) from Suite No.5 in C minor, Pièces de viole arr. JB Forqueray for keyboard
Tine Thing Helseth & Friends: The Boulangerie
Performers
Hyeyoon Park violin
Andreas Brantelid cello
Julian Bliss clarinet
Tine Thing Helseth trumpet
Julien Quentin piano
Repertoire
N Boulanger: Soleils couchants
Stravinsky: Hommage à Nadia Boulanger; Suite from L'histoire du Soldat (A Soldier's Tale) arr. for violin, clarinet & piano
Fauré: Movement TBC from Requiem arr. Emile Naoumoff for piano
L Boulanger: 2 Morceaux (Nocturne & Cortège)
Copland: Quiet City
Interval
Tveitt: Velkomne med æra from 100 Folk Tunes from Hardanger; Hommage à Nadia Boulanger
Bacewicz: Oberek No.1
Gershwin: 3 Preludes
Michel Legrand: Sans toi from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Piazzolla: Le grand tango
L Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps
N Boulanger: Cantique arr. for voice, violin, cello, harp & organ (Lux aeterna)
Concerto Italiano: Monteverdi’s Madrigals
Performers
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini director
Repertoire
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Bk.3
While you're with us
Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms
A summer favourite returns to our site with water fountains to splash around and cool down in.
Thinking
Fountains
Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.
Modified Social Benches
Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.
William Pye's Zemran
Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.