REPERTOIRE
It's often said that a good concert programme should be like a gourmet meal - the courses balanced with starters, palette cleansers and something sweet to finish. When it comes to chamber music there is an abundance of main courses. Of course this is the repertoire that we in the Rossetti Ensemble love to play and audiences love to hear but there are very few shorter pieces for the piano quartet. The group address this by including arrangements by their pianist John Lenehan of selected pieces such as the Debussy prelude which you can hear on the home page. This work happens also to be the group's "signature" piece as it was originally a work in which Debussy set a text by Gabriel Dante Rossetti. This is one in a growing list which, so far, includes shorter works by Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, Ravel and Piazzolla. We aim to leave our audiences with just the right balance of food for the soul. Below are programme suggestions - some for those with hearty appetites and others which we hope you find enticing in other ways!
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor
Mahler Piano Quartet Movement Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor English programme: Bax Piano Quartet in One Movement Bridge Phantasy Quartet in F sharp Minor Howells Piano Quartet in A minor op 21 French Programme: Faure G minor Piano Quartet Ravel La Mere L'oye (arr. Lenehan) Chausson Piano Quartet Quintets with Leon Bosch, double bass Richard Walthew Piano Quintet Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet in C minor Schubert Trout Quintet |
Other repertoire
Beethoven Piano Quartet in Eb op. 16 Brahms Liebeslieder Waltz in E major (arr. Lenehan) Brahms Piano Quartet no. 2 in A op. 26 Brahms Piano Quartet no. 3 in C minor op.60 Brown (James Francis) Piano Quartet (2015) Debussy Prelude from La Damoiselle Elue (arr. Lenehan) D'Indy Piano Quartet in D minor Dvorak Piano Quartet no. 1 in D Dvorak Piano Quartet no. 2 in Eb Faure Piano Quartet no. 1 in C minor Faure Pavane (arr. Lenehan) Matthews A song and Dance Sketchbook Mozart Piano Quartet no. 2 in Eb K. 493 Piazzolla Tangos (arr. Lenehan) Prokofiev Troika (arr. Lenehan) Schumann Piano Quartet op. 47 Schumann 2 Fantasiestucke op. 12 (arr. Lenehan) |