SUNday 16th august 1.30 pm

The ties that bind

Yi Wang  | violin
Steph Dixon  | oboe
Katharine Brockman  | viola
Rachel Atkinson  | cello

Lee Bradshaw
String Trio ‘Trigon’, op.3

Benjamin Britten
‘Phantasy’ Quartet

The Festival of Chamber Music welcomes renowned violinist Yi Wang as he performs Benjamin Britten’s youthful ‘Phantasy’ Oboe Quartet, composed when the young prodigy was just 18 years old. The unmistakable fingerprints of genius already on display, the Quartet is regarded as one of his stand-out chamber works, and the perfect foil to Lee Bradshaw’s brooding and darkly evocative ‘String Trio Trigon’. Commissioned in 2003 to critical acclaim and proclaimed as simply ‘sublime’, this is showcase music played by master musicians.