Chamber Spotlight: Beethoven’s Ghost

Name: Chamber Spotlight: Beethoven’s Ghost
Start: 2026-03-04 18:00:00
Location: Performance Hall

Dates
04 March 2026, 6:00pm

Venue
Performance Hall

Tickets
£6.50 (incl ticket fee)

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04 March 2026, 6:00pm

Venue
Performance Hall

Tickets
£6.50 (incl ticket fee)

Korngold 'Maiden in the Bridal Chamber', 'Garden Scene', 'Hornpipe' from Suite from Much Ado About Nothing for violin and piano
Panufnik Olivia for String Quartet (Viola's famous 'Make me a willow cabin' speech from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)
Beethoven Piano Trio no 5 in D major op 70 no 1, 'Ghost'

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In the first of this season’s Chamber Spotlight series, RCM musicians explore Shakespearean themes in Beethoven’s 1808 piano trio. It has been said that Macbeth’s second victim, Banquo, makes a ghostly appearance in the eerie-sounding slow movement...

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