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Liz Nicholls

Buckinghamshire, Round and About, Shows & Reviews

Amersham Concert Club’s highlights at Amersham Free Church include Ensemble Renard on 26th October & the Meraki Duo on 30th November, Jenny Faulkner tells us…

Ensemble Renard invite music-lovers to hear music that’s both familiar and foreign to them at their concerts, and this is no exception!

On Saturday, 26th October, they’ll bring you A Breeze Through the 20th Century, including the festive music of Valerie Coleman’s Umoja to the hazy rhapsody of Samuel Barber’s Summer Music and Amy Beach’s Pastorale. Ensemble Renard who are supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, will also perform György Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles. All the music is for wind instruments (flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, french horn) and the music, some of the finest written in the 20th century for these instruments is often ethereal and hauntingly beautiful.

Our November concert is entitled Songs of Longing: Nature, People and Place. The Meraki Duo (flute and guitar) have put together a very thoughtful programme of music that may not be familiar to many people but is filled with ‘songs’ from all corners of the world that share common human themes of nostalgia, melancholy or ephemerality in connection to nature, people and places.

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