Change of Artist

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Rick Stotijn (double bass) is no longer available for the above concert. We are grateful to Will Duerden (double bass) for stepping in as their replacement. The programme remains the same.

Three 20th-century works prominently featuring the oboe. Martinů’s Quartet was composed in New York in 1947. Poulenc’s delightful duo Sonata (1962) was his final work, described by a New York Times critic as ‘a paradoxical mix of the elegiac, the suave and the clever’; the composer dedicated it to the memory of Prokofiev, the material of whose 1924 Quintet largely derives from his ballet, Trapeze.