We explore the polar opposites of Innocence and Experience this evening in Schubert's effervescent Trout quintet, and the burning passion of Franck's famous sonata. Between those extremes, Bach and Biber suggest the first human steps in the garden of Eden, watched over by Sofia Gubaidulina's Angel; and our distinguished composer-in-residence Thomas Adès sketches musical portraits of Shakespeare's shipwrecked courtiers, lost in a kind of Eden – the island setting of Adès's opera based on The Tempest.
J. S. Bach Prelude in C Major from Well-Tempered Clavier Biber Passacaglia for solo violinGubaidulina An angelFranck Violin sonata Adès Court Studies from The TempestSchubert Trout quintet
Artists: Alena Baeva, Reto Bieri, Jordi Carrasco Hjelm, Julius Drake, Irina Zahharenkova, Luciana Mancini, Priya Mitchell, Dirk Mommertz, Annette Walther
Every year the Oxford Chamber Music Festival brings together some of the most exciting classical musicians in Europe to live and play together for a week. Creative sparks fly as the players exchange musical partners and tackle the widest variety of sound-worlds.
