Chamber Spotlight: Bachianas Brasileiras

Name: Chamber Spotlight: Bachianas Brasileiras
Start: 2025-11-05 18:00:00
Location: Performance Hall

Dates
05 November 2025, 6:00pm

Venue
Performance Hall

Tickets
£5

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05 November 2025, 6:00pm

Venue
Performance Hall

Tickets
£5

Gemma Rosefield director
Eve Maxwell soprano
Cello Ensemble

Arvo Pärt Fratres
Villa Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras no 5 for cello octet and soprano

Enjoy a rare chance to experience the resonant and atmospheric setting of a cello ensemble in this unique concert directed from the cello by RCM professor Gemma Rosefield.

Arvo Pärt’s meditative masterpiece Fratres has been used in numerous films and documentaries, offering frantic activity paired with haunting stillness, and exemplifies the composer’s tintinnabuli (‘without fixed instrumentation’) technique.

Meanwhile, Villa-Lobos blends Brazilian folk rhythms with the elegance of Bach in Bachianas Brasileiras no 5, one of the composer’s best-known pieces. Listen out for moments of birdsong representing the Brazilian forest.

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