The Berkeley Ensemble celebrates Frank Bridge

The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, London, NW1 7NL

• Novelletten for string quartet
• Piano trio no. 2
• Three songs for medium voice, viola and piano
• String sextet in E flat

Tickets: £12 / £10 (£11 / £9 online)

The Berkeley Ensemble presents a portrait of the composer Frank Bridge to mark the seventieth anniversary of his death. Over a career spanning the first half of the twentieth century, Bridge charted a unique and fascinating journey from the sunny and elegant charm of his early Novelletten to the intensely personal and rarefied sound-world of his second piano trio.

Described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘in a class of his own’, pianist James Baillieu and mezzo soprano Lilly Papaioannou join the ensemble to perform songs by Bridge, completing a portrait of this most remarkable and surprising of composers.