Leicester International Music Festival

Saturday 18 June 2005  7.30 pm

Priya Mitchell (violin)
Tamás András (violin)
James Boyd (viola)
Natalie Clein (cello)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe & castanets)
Sarah Burnett (bassoon)
Julius Drake (piano)
Maggie Cole (harpsichord)
Jacob Cordover (guitar)

Event 2: Festival Ensemble

Francis Poulenc:
Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano
James MacMillan:
Kiss on Wood, for violin & piano
Luigi Boccherini:
Quintet for string quartet, guitar & castanets
Antonio Soler:
Harpsichord Sonatas in F# minor and F# major, nos. 85 & 90
Isaac Albéniz:
Cordoba and Sevilla for guitar
Johann Sebartian Bach:
Trio Sonata in C minor for oboe, viola & continuo, BWV 526

Leicester International Music Festival website

Our first introduction to James MacMillan is here with a short, static and serene meditation on the wood of the Cross. This will be a wonderfully colourful programme with a great deal of plucking from both guitar and harpsichord in the second half, and Boccherini’s fantastic Quintet. Probably a unique opportunity to hear Nicholas Daniel play the castanets!

Pre-concert talk 6.45-7.15pm
John Florance chats with Festival Ensemble musicians and James MacMillan. Free to ticket holders.