Musical national treasure Roderick Williams, soloist at King Charles III’s coronation and singer-in-residence with Music in the Round, returns to the Crucible Playhouse with Ensemble 360 for a magical tour through the City of Light.
The programme will open with Fauré’s first Piano Quintet. This piece was a labour of love that he nurtured over many years, and the song cycles and works for violin he wrote alongside it echo through this exquisitely constructed piece.
Poulenc’s kaleidoscopic Sextet encompasses jazz, ragtime, pastiche of Mozart and a tribute to Ravel, whose Madagascan songs they follow, in this programme luxuriating in the many sounds of 'fin de siècle' Paris.
Culminating in Fauré’s intricate song-cycle La Bonne Chanson, crafted from the poems of Paul Verlaine, this concert reunites Ensemble 360, with Music in the Round’s singer-in-residence Roderick Williams for the first time since 2017.
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