The Berkeley Ensemble made its radio debut on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune on the 4th March, performing Michael Berkeley’s Clarion Call and Gallop as well as movements from Ferguson’s Octet and Beethoven’s Septet live on air.
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Debut album ‘Clarion Call’ now available
The Berkeley Ensemble’s debut recording Clarion Call: Music for Septet and Octet is now available for download from Resonus Classics. The recording echoes Beethoven and Schubert with 20th- and 21st-century chamber works by Charles Wood, John Casken, Howard Ferguson and Michael Berkeley.
Our annual residential course for piano, strings and winds will be on 2nd – 5th May 2014. Spend the May bank holiday weekend playing beautiful chamber music with like-minded musicians in the idyllic surroundings of rural Somerset. More information and how to book
The Berkeley Ensemble’s 2012-13 season came to a close with the completion of our first major recording project, featuring a brand new piece by Michael Berkeley – his Clarion Call and Gallop, which was composed specially for us. It’s with this aptly named piece which we open our new season, and it features in several […]
We are delighted to be giving several performances of the first Berkeley Ensemble commission, from established British composer Michael Berkeley CBE.
Süssmayr and Mozart
St. Peter’s Church, Streatham Süssmayr: Quintet in C for guitar, oboe and string trio Paul Cott: Oboe Quartet Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F, K. 370 Free admission
Golden Fables 2012
Latitude Festival, Suffolk An exciting new poetic drama inspired by Lincolnshire’s legends and landscapes. It fuses words from Archbishop Desmond Tutu with specially-written Fables by poets Ian McMillan, Gillian Clarke, Liz Lochhead and Joel Stickley set to music by Gabriel Prokofiev, Tim Dalling and Luke Carver Goss.
Ravel and his contemporaries
St. Peter’s Church, Streatham Programme to include: Ravel: Introduction and Allegro Holst: Terzetto for flute, clarinet and viola Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello Free admission
Viennese wind serenades
St Peter’s Church, Streatham Beethoven: Wind sextet op. 71 Mozart: Serenade in E flat K375 Free admission
Schubert’s ‘Trout’ quintet
St George’s, Hanover Square Rachel Stott: Serendipity and Household Objects Schubert: Quintet for piano and strings (‘Trout’) D 667 Free admission