In the natural darkness of the concert barn in Halloy, there’s an ode to the night in a matinee concert! A concert programme full of musical discoveries!

Ernest Bloch’s three Nocturnes for piano trio are enchanting character pieces that are by turns haunting, lyrical and restless.

A real discovery is the music of composer Rebecca Clarke. Her music stands out for its passion and power, encompassing a range of 20th-century styles, including impressionism, post-romanticism and neoclassical. Here we hear four short pieces with starring roles for violin, viola and tenor! 

In André Jolivet’s moving Nocturne, the cello, in a long cantabile, voices a turbulent dream full of sorrow. Bruno Philippe will make his cello cry, make it whisper, make it sing!

Finally, Arnold Schoenberg’s famous ‘Transfigured Night’, here in a version for piano trio. The work was inspired by a poem by Richard Dehmel, in which a woman confesses to her lover during a nocturnal walk that she is expecting a child by another man. The emotional impact of this announcement, the emotional coping process and the eventual acceptance of the situation is beautifully rendered by Schoenberg; an iconic work!