Reshaping classical forms, inviting instruments into conversation, and capturing the spirit of a place, this is an evening that illuminates the many ways structure, dialogue, and setting can inspire musical imagination.
Caroline Shaw is a boundary-defying musician who moves fluidly between roles, genres, and mediums, shaping sound with curiosity and invention. Entr’acte is inspired by the minuet and trio of Haydn’s Op 77 No 2, which Shaw describes as a journey ‘through the looking glass’, where a familiar structure is transformed through subtle, technicolour shifts in harmony and texture.
Composed in 1803 for his pupil and patron, the Archduke Rudolph of Austria, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto brings violin, cello, and piano into vivid musical conversation. An unusual instrumentation for the time, the three soloists speak, interrupt, and support one another in a dynamic interplay that feels both intimate and exuberant.
Described by Mendelssohn as a ‘blue sky in A major’, his Symphony No 4 captures impressions from his Italian travels: Mediterranean sunshine, religious solemnity, monumental art and architecture, and open countryside. Connected to Mendelssohn through living and working in Leipzig, Benjamin Huth also brings to this performance the perspectives gained from travel, drawing on how music can express both observation and memory.
Programme
- Caroline Shaw Entr’acte: A Minuet & Trio
- Ludwig van Beethoven Triple Concerto for violin, cello and piano in C major Op 56
- Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A major Op 90 ‘Italian’
Performed by
- Benjamin Huth Conductor
- Kryštof Kohout Violin
- Findlay Spence Cello
- Susanna Braun Piano
- Manchester Camerata
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