Harmony Beyond Music is a series of chamber music concerts exploring themes of equality and diversity, featuring music from Bach to the present day, performed by Reiko Fujisawa and friends, and introduced by Peter Quantrill.

This concert is entitled “Three’s Company”.

A group of women composers resolving the piano-versus-strings tension at the heart of the piano trio. Clara Schumann broke a path for female musicians in 19th-century Germany as much more than a wife to her composer husband. Rebecca Clarke and Charlotte Sohy composed music of new-found freedom in early 20th-century England and France. Coming up to date, Cecilia McDowall encloses a tribute to music’s perpetual revolutionary Beethoven at the heart of her magical nocturne.

Programme

Charlotte Sohy: Piano Trio

Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trio

Interval

Cecilia McDowall: Cavatina at Midnight

Clara Schumann: Piano Trio