London Chamber Ensemble 

Madeleine Mitchel - violin

Gordon MacKay - violin

Bridget Carey - viola

Joseph Spooner - cello

Siân Griffiths - mezzo-soprano*

Chloe Hanslip - violin*

The well-established London Chamber Ensemble presents an appealing Anglo-American programme, including the lyrical song cycle Intonations, with Opera North rising star Siân 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" (Earlier version 1923, recently discovered).

Programme:

Herbert Howells - String Quartet "In Gloucestershire" (earlier version 1923)

Herbert Howells - Luchinushka (arr. Madeleine Mitchell, for string quartet)

Vaughan Williams - Folk song for voice and violin

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