Voices: Elsewhere and elsewhen

Hull Chamber Music

The Middleton Hall, University of Hull, HU6 7RX

• Maurice Ravel: Introduction  and Allegro
• Luciano Berio: Sequenza IXa for clarinet
• Bela Bartok: Violin duos (selection)
• Igor Stravinsky: Three Shakespeare Songs
• Claude Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane
• Luciano Berio: Violin duos (selection)
• Luciano Berio: Folksongs

With Anna Huntley, mezzo-soprano

In collaboration with the Musical Cultures Conference, the Berkeley Ensemble return to Hull University with a wide-ranging programme, which explores the ‘voices’ of the ensemble’s various instruments.

Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet was written to demonstrate the Érard company’s pre-eminent pedal harp design, enriching its repertoire and accepted voice along the way. Berio’s Sequenza for Clarinet looks back on its own instrument’s wide-ranging voice as conceived by artists from Mozart to Benny Goodman, whilst Stravinsky’s late settings of Shakespeare make something rich and strange of familiar texts.

Tickets: £14 (concessions £5) available online culturenet.co.uk, by email face-events@hull.ac.uk or by phone 01482 465998.

Pre-concert talk, 6.45pm: Members of the ensemble talk about the evening’s programme