London Conchord Ensemble

Poulenc, Mozart and Beethoven

Date:
09 January 2012 - 1:00pm

Ticket Prices:
£12 concs £10

Note

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Performers

London Conchord Ensemble

Programme

Poulenc

Sextet for piano and wind

Mozart

Adagio and Rondo in C minor K617

Beethoven

Quintet in Eb for piano and wind Op. 16

About this concert

Vienna echoed to the sounds of wind band music in the late 1700s. The city’s wind ensemble, the celebrated Harmonie, supported an outstanding group of players and attracted excellent musicians from the lands of the Habsburg Empire.

The London Conchord Ensemble includes one of the finest of all chamber works for wind instruments, Beethoven’s Mozart-inspired Quintet in E flat for Piano and Winds Op. 16. Mozart’s Adagio and Rondo in C minor K617, his final chamber music composition, was originally scored for winds and strings with glass harmonica, the hauntingly beautiful instrument invented by American polymath and political theorist Benjamin Franklin.