Oxford May Music Festival: Opening Night
3 May 2024, 8.00pm at St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, OX4 1EH
The music side of the Festival opens with a bang – a big-boned samba by well known British composer and violist Sally Beamish. The remainder of the programme appears to consist of two early works. Brahms is represented by his sparkling first piano trio. However, he substantially revised it in 1889, smoothing off some of his youthful excesses. Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht” is gorgeously romantic, a style he soon dropped in favour of the intricacies of twelve-tone technique.
Sally Beamish – Carnival Samba (2003)
Johannes Brahms – Piano Trio no.1 in B major, Op.8
Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht, Op.4
Salieca Piano Trio
Jack Liebeck – Violin
Thomas Carroll – Cello
Amandine Savary – piano
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux – Violin
Simon Oswell – viola
Benjamin Roskams – viola
Charlotte Miles – Cello