Episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20170404 | The Nash Ensemble contrast James MacMillan's capricious Piano Trio No 2 with Shostakovich's rather elegiac Piano Trio No 2, written in memory of a close friend and against the backdrop of the atrocities of the Second World War, as well Debussy's beautiful Violin Sonata. Debussy: Violin Sonata MacMillan: Piano Trio No 2 Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2 Laura Samuel, violin Adrian Brendel, cello Alasdair Beatson, piano. The Nash Ensemble performs music by Debussy, MacMillan and Shostakovich. |
| 02 | 20170405 | As part of a month-long series of concerts in Glasgow in celebration of the recent work by James MacMillan, the Nash Ensemble explore MacMillan's characterful Horn Quintet and Ravel's masterwork for the piano trio while the RCS Voices perform his beautiful a cappella anthem O bone Jesu. Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor MacMillan: O bone Jesu MacMillan: Horn Quintet Nash Ensemble: Richard Watkins, horn Laura Samuel, violin Annabelle Meare, violin Scott Dickinson, viola Adrian Brendel, cello Alasdair Beatson, piano Tim Dean, conductor. The Nash Ensemble performs music by Ravel and MacMillan in Glasgow. |
| 03 | 20170406 | From the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Nash Ensemble perform James MacMillan's miniature quintets dedicated to composers Peter Maxwell Davies, Sally Beamish and Michael Berkeley alongside Brahms's epic masterpiece. James MacMillan: Piano Quintets for Max, Sally and Michael Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 Nash Ensemble: Laura Samuel, violin Annabelle Meare, violin Scott Dickinson, viola Adrian Brendel, cello Alasdair Beatson, piano. The Nash Ensemble performs music by MacMillan and Brahms in Glasgow. |
| 04 | 20170407 | Rounding off this week's celebration of chamber music by James MacMillan, the Nash Ensemble perform the composer's one-movement Second Cello Sonata alongside Shostakovich's equally succinct Seventh Quartet and Glazunov's serene Idyll and Serenade for Horn and Strings from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Down the road at St Andrew's Cathedral Glasgow, the RCS Voices perform his penitential and evocative Miserere which draws much on the inspiration of Allegri's most famous work on this text. Glazunov: Idyll and Serenade Shostakovich: String Quartet No 7 in F sharp minor, Op 108 MacMillan: Cello Sonata No 2 MacMillan: Miserere Nash Ensemble: Richard Watkins, horn Laura Samuel, violin Annabelle Meare, violin Scott Dickinson, viola Adrian Brendel, cello Alasdair Beatson, piano Tim Dean, conductor. The Nash Ensemble performs music by Glazunov, Shostakovich and MacMillan. |