Mio Takahashi, leader of the Isla Quartet who delighted the Calne audience at last year’s festival, joins cello legend Adrian Brendel, Mark Sandon-Williams, (head of keyboard studies at St Mary’s School) and Brett Dean, (Festival patron and viola player), for an evening of classy chamber music.
“One, Two, Three & Four”, as the concert’s title suggests, takes us from JS Bach’s ground-breaking music for solo violin via a dramatic duo for cello and piano by German titan Beethoven and Schubert’s lyrical trio movement for three strings through to a romantic-era landmark, the remarkable piano quartet by Robert Schumann, by turns touching and thrilling.