Serious music can be great fun

One of Britain’s leading chamber music groups, the Galliard Ensemble, is to perform in Rickmansworth on Saturday, November 13.

The Galliards are former BBC New Generation Artists who are renowned for both their high level of musical skill and their playfulness.

They have performed at many of the world’s leading music venues and festivals and their repertoire ranges from Mozart and Beethoven to works by some of today’s more avant-garde composers.

Their Three Rivers Music Society concert will offer a similar mix. It will include the Adagio and Allegro in F minor that Mozart wrote for a mechanical organ, and the Quintet in D major by the 19th-century Italian composer Giulio Briccialdi, who was known as “the Paganini of the flute”.

The wind quintet's programme will also feature music by 20th-century European composers, Luciano Berio, Jacques Ibert and György Ligeti, as well as works by two women composers, America’s Amy Beach and Britain’s Cecilia McDowall.

The multi-award-winning McDowall is best known for her choral music but at this concert the Galliards will be performing her 2010 composition for wind quintet, Subject to the Weather, which was inspired by a popular Welsh folk song, The Blackbird.

The concert will be held at the Baptist Church in High Street, Rickmansworth WD3 1EH. It will begin at 7.30pm. Tickets £16 via Eventbrite and also at the door. Reduced price for members. Free entry for under-25s.

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