SALISBURY Cathedral will host an intimate concert of chamber music later this month.
On Saturday, September 16 pianist David Halls, Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral, his brother and cellist Steven Halls, and violinist Daphne Moody will be performing at 7pm in the South Transept of Salisbury Cathedral.
With a programme ranging from the 17th century to the 21st century, the trio will also be premiering Passacaglia, a piece written by David Halls and inspired by Frank Bridge’s Romance, heard earlier in the concert.
Bridge is perhaps most famous for being Benjamin Britten's composition teacher.
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David Halls, Director of Music said: “A passacaglia is a series of variations created using a short melody – in this case the first four bars of the lovely Romance miniature written by Bridge in 1910.
"It is a gentle melody that, on a quiet evening in the Cathedral’s South Transept, will be very evocative, recalling a period in history just beyond living memory.”
There is plenty of variety in the music chosen for tonight’s concert from Arcangelo Corelli’s fluent Sonata in D minor for violin, cello & continuo to Frank Bridge’s melodious Three Miniatures Set 2 written for Betty and Rachel Hanbury, two cousins who were Bridge's violin students.
The concert also includes Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.1 in C minor op.8, a so-called ‘student’ work written when he was just 16.
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Shostakovich’s Trio is dedicated to Tatyana Glivenko, a young woman he fell in love with when recovering from tuberculosis at a sanatorium in the Crimea.
The second half will comprise a single masterpiece, Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No.2 in C minor op.66, written not long before the composer's death in 1847.
Cellist Steven Halls, who designed the evening’s Chamber Music programme said: “I am a passionate advocate of chamber music. You could almost describe it as music to be played by friends, amongst friends – and it is in that spirit this concert has been put together. Furthermore, being able to play a composition written by my brother makes the evening even more special.”
The Chamber Concert takes place at 7pm on Saturday, September 16 in Salisbury Cathedral – doors open at 6.30pm.
Tickets are available online via the Cathedral website and on the door: Adults £15 and Children (under 18) £7.
Visitors with access requirements should contact the Cathedral Box Office by phone (01722 656 555), email (boxoffice@salcath.co.uk) or in person to book their tickets. The Box Office is open Monday - Friday between 9.30am and 4pm.
All profits from this event will go towards the Salisbury Cathedral Choral Foundation.
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