Watch — Marsyas Trio

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‘BEETHOVEN’S VIENNA’

featuring works by Beethoven’s friends, acquaintances & contemporaries.

Programme includes a premiere trio arrangement of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s only symphonic work - Overture in C - arranged for the Marsyas Trio by Dr Mark Gotham, following in Beethoven’s tradition of publishing his symphonies simultaneously in chamber orchestrations. Referred to by Beethoven as ‘translations’, these chamber versions were the main way in which symphonic works were disseminated and performed throughout Europe.

Carl Czerny - Fantasia Concertante for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op. 256

Clothworkers Hall, Leeds

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‘WHY NO WOMEN MOZARTS?’

featuring works by eminent women figures, who fought social and cultural conventions in order to compose and have a public musical life.

Imagine the richness of repertoire we would hold today if the prodigiously talented sisters and wives of the likes of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann had been encouraged or even permitted careers equal to those of their male contemporaries; who – had they been living today, may well have enjoyed glittering compositional careers. This programme showcases the remarkable works of historical and contemporary women composers, with some works commissioned by the Marsyas Trio.

Excerpts from concerts in Ilkley King’s Hall and Skipton Town Hall

(Louise Farrenc, Hilary Tann, Chen Yi, Undine Smith Moore)

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‘INVENTION AND REVOLUTION’

featuring composers who were musical revolutionaries.

From Haydn to Mel Bonis to Martinu, this programme spans three centuries and showcases composers who were innovators at a time of social and political unrest in continental Europe.