Krysia Osostowicz (violin); Jane Salmon (cello); Michael Dussek (piano)

The composer Edwin York Bowen was nicknamed "The English Rachmaninov" during his successful career. Endymion is reviving some wonderful chamber music to celebrate the re-launch of the York Bowen Society: the haunting Rhapsody Trio, the celebratory Suite for violin and piano and the unpublished Rhapsody for solo piano. Alongside are works by Bowen's contemporaries Stravinsky and, of course, Rachmaninov. This concert is generously supported by The Delius Trust.

York Bowen - Rhapsody in B Minor Op. 10 for solo piano (1902). (Unpublished; World Premiere)
Rachmaninov - Piano Trio No 1, ("Élégiaque")
York Bowen - Rhapsody Trio Op. 80 (1926)
Stravinsky - Duo Concertante for violin and piano
York Bowen - Suite in D Minor for violin and piano Op. 28 (1909) (dedicated to Fritz Kreisler)

Endymion celebrates the opening of the brand new concert hall at Kings Place with three concerts, opening with Disparate, a new work by Simon Holt, performed by oboist Melinda Maxwell.

These concerts highlight Endymion’s work over thirty years: a refreshing mix of newly-penned music by Holt, Kondo and Castiglioni, some English romantics and some modern classics, represented here by Schoenberg, Ligeti and Bartok.

During the morning Endymion will perform Ligeti’s Poeme Symphonique on one hundred metronomes dotted around the resounding Kings Place atrium, and Stephen Stirling will herald the opening of the new hall with Martin Butler’s solo horn work Hunding.

9am (in atrium)
György Ligeti – Poeme Symphonique for 100 metronomes

9.20am (in atrium)
Martin Butler – Hunding for solo horn

Concert 1, 9.30am
Holt - Disparate (world premiere) (2007)
Kondo - Birthday Hocket (2000)
Castiglioni - Intonazione (1992)
Bartok - Contrasts, for violin, clarinet and piano, Sz.111 (1938)

Concert 2, 10.45am
Ligeti - Trio for horn, violin and piano ("Homage a Brahms") (1982)
Dunhill - Quintet in E-flat, Op.3

Concert 3, 12 noon
York Bowen – Rhapsody Trio for violin, cello and piano, Op.80 (1926)
Schoenberg (arr. Webern) – Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op.9 (1923)