Benjamin Britten and Sergei Prokofiev were both exiled in America when they wrote the works performed at this concert in the TS Eliot Theatre. Far from home, the British composer produced a time-stilling string quartet of graceful, mellow and humorous pieces. If the two composers sounded guarded in those works, Reynaldo Hahn will appear to burst loose in his piano quintet – a bold, brilliant and big-boned masterpiece of chamber music that comes with an irresistible, impassioned French sweep.

Chamber Music at Merton

Mark Viner

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Jan 17, 2027

Chamber Music at Merton · Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

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Piano in String Quartet No. 1 by Britten

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

Piano in 5 Mélodies by Prokofiev

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

Piano in Piano Quintet by Hahn

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

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