Artists/Programmes '08


	The Bradfield Festival of Music

More information on artists appearing in 2008, together with details of their programmes, will be appearing here when available

The Abbeydale Singers and The Brass Players:

Programme TBA

Biographies to follow

The Meirion Ensemble:

Handel - Concerto Grosso op.6 no.1 in G

Albinoni - Concerto for Oboe and Strings in D Minor, op.9 no.2

Mozart - Divertimenti in F, K183

Corelli - Concerto Grosso op.6 no.7 in D

J S Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.3

plus a new commission

The Meirion Chamber Ensemble was formed in 1993 from a group of players belonging to the Halle Orchestra in Manchester. Originally made up of three strings with flute and oboe, the group made its reputation appearing at festivals and music societies around the country. With the ensembles instrumentation becoming more flexible, the group now plays anything from music for trio with harp, to baroque concertos. Recently the ensemble has expanded to chamber orchestra size, and has taken on its first commision, a work especially written by the composer Thomas Davey

Ensemble 360:

Schubert - Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D.802

Mendelssohn - Konzerstuck op.113

Schumann - Adagio and Allegro

Schumann - Fantasiestuke, op.73

Rimsky-Korzakov - Quintet in B flat

Ensemble 360 was formed in 2005 to take up residency in South Yorkshire with Music in the Round, succeeding The Lindsays who retired as a quartet in July 2005. The ensemble brings together musicians from across the globe to form one versatile ensemble of eleven musicians; five wind players, a pianist, double bassist and the Elias String Quartet

Tasmin Little with John Lenehan:

Mozart - Sonata in C Major, K296

Grieg - Sonata no. 2 in G Major

Ethel Smythe sonata

Tchaikovsky - Melodie

Lenehan / Little - Tchaikovskiana

Biographies to follow

John Lenehan:

J S Bach - Italian Concerto BWV971

Schumann - Etudes Symphoniques, op.13

Rachmaninoff - Three Preludes (from op.23)

Philip Glass - Dance, from Trilogy Sonata