Romantic Revolution

Fanny Mendelssohn – Piano Quartet
Huw Watkins – Piano Trio
Schumann – Piano Quintet in E-flat major

Artists:
Benjamin Nabarro · Claudia Ajmone-Marsan – violins
Rachel Roberts – viola · Gemma Rosefield – cello · Tim Horton – piano

The festival concludes with brilliance and exuberance. Fanny Mendelssohn’s youthful Piano Quartet was her first piece of chamber music and the largest-scale work so far in her compositional career. Huw Watkins’s Piano Trio showcases the vitality of contemporary British chamber music and Schumann’s radiant Piano Quintet crowns the weekend - a work that revolutionised the musical character of the piano quintet. A joyous finale that captures the festival’s spirit of collaboration and celebration, and sends audiences into Christmas week uplifted and inspired.