London Chamber Ensemble

Madeleine Mitchell, Gordon MacKay, violins

Bridget Carey, viola

Joseph Spooner, cello

*Sian Griffiths, mezzo soprano

*Chloe Hanslip, violin

Programme:

Herbert Howells - String Quartet “In Gloucestershire” 
Herbert Howells - Luchinushka arr. Madeleine Mitchell for string quartet
Vaughan Williams - Folk song for voice and violin

*Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer - Intonations (European Première)

The well established London Chamber Ensemble presents an appealing Anglo-American programme, a Red Violin festival highlight, including the European première of the lyrical song cycle Intonations, with Opera North rising star Sian Griffiths and strings, based on The Violins of Hope - the instruments rescued and restored from the Holocaust. They also launch their new album of quartets by Howells and his teacher Charles Wood for SOMM with the beautiful 'In Gloucestershire' of 1923. Their previous album was highly praised and no.2 in the Classical Charts. "An evening of superb chamber-music-making" Musical Opinion. The well known American partnership of Heggie/Scheer has produced many successful operas for Houston, Dallas, San Francisco etc and 'It's a Wonderful Life' for ENO.