Harmony Beyond Music is a series of chamber music concerts exploring themes of equality and diversity, performed by Reiko Fujisawa and friends, and introduced by Peter Quantrill.

Three’s Company

A group of women composers resolving the piano-versus-strings tension at the heart of the piano trio. Clara Schumann broke a path for female musicians in 19th-century Germany as much more than a wife to her composer husband. Rebecca Clarke and Charlotte Sohy composed music of new-found freedom in early 20th-century England and France. Coming up to date, Cecilia McDowall encloses a tribute to music’s perpetual revolutionary Beethoven at the heart of her magical nocturne.

Programme

Charlotte Sohy: Piano Trio

Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trio

Interval

Cecilia McDowall: Cavatina at Midnight

Clara Schumann: Piano Trio

Performers

Reiko Fujisawa, piano

Ofer Falk, violin

Ursula Smith, cello

with introductions and insights from Peter Quantrill