Ravel and the Russian Romantics with Madeleine Mitchell and the London Chamber Ensemble

Madeleine and her ensemble will reprise part of their recent sell out gala concert to celebrate the V&A's Fabergé: Romance to Revolution exhibition

Madeleine Mitchell - violin
Gordon MacKay - violin
Bridget Carey - viola
Joseph Spooner - cello

THE PROGRAMME:

BORODIN String Quartet No. 2  D major. The quartet, including the wonderfully romantic 'Notturno', was written in 1881 and dedicated to Borodin's wife Ekaterina Protopova.

From Les Vendredis -  the Salons hosted every Friday in the 1890s in his mansion in St Petersburg by lumber millionaire and music publisher Mitrifan Balaiev:
LIADOV - Mazurka for string quartet in D major - Les Vendredis Book 1No. 7
LIADOV - Sarabande in G minor - Les Vendredis Book 2
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - Choeur Dansé Russe from 'Jour de fête', a collaborative work by Liadov, Glazunov and Rimsky for the name day of the publisher, Belaiev.

RAVEL - String quartet in F major - completed in 1903 (the year of Belaiev's death) when Ravel was 28 and premiered in Paris the following year, a masterpiece in the repertoire.

To hear a short extract of Madeleine and her colleagues playing Schubert in the Highgate School Chapel as part of last summer's Highgate Festival, check in to this post.

COVID CONCERNS. Although we are hoping that by the end of February there will no longer be any restrictions on our movements, we would like to reassure you that the chapel is large and airy enough to allow good social distancing. We would also encourage audience members to continue to wear face masks.

The Highgate School Chapel.  Salon Music would like to thank Father Robert and Highgate School for allowing our musicians to perform in the chapel. Any monies received by the chapel will go to the music department of the London Academy of Excellence in Tottenham, a Highgate sixth form sister school catering to students from one of London's more deprived communities.

About the players:

Madeleine Mitchell, international violinist and director of the London Chamber Ensemble is joined by her regular quartet partners, Gordon MacKay, Bridget Carey and Joseph Spooner, all of whom are experienced chamber musicians and recording artists.
The LCE recently gave a very successful live streamed concert celebrating A Century of Music by British Women (1921-2021), following their Naxos album of Grace Williams Chamber Music, no.2 in the Classical Charts.
They have also just recorded their Russian repetoire for a film as part of Madeleine’s Royal Philharmonic Society Enterprise Award linking art and music with reference to the V&A's Fabergé exhibition.