The second single for Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. I is now here! 🥳 Enjoy the sumptuous, soaring sounds of this slow movement by Luise Adolpha Le Beau, whose darkly intense piano quartet is the perfect foil to Brahms’s radiant A Major.

💿 drops May 24!
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Wonderful to hear and see Anthony McGill in action with Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and marvellous students of Guildhall School of Music & Drama this evening, and he was even given an honorary fellowship to boot. Great musician, wonderful man.

There are few people nicer to chat with than Jess Gillam, and I loved recording our episode of #ThisClassicalLife , though I remember very little about what I said and am slightly concerned that c.80% of it might have been about dinosaurs 🦕🦖 Find out on BBC Radio 3 5pm today!

From sunny Spain to overcast Œngland… we invite you to join us this week at the Barbican Centre! Don’t miss our 2-concert collab with the inimitable Anthony McGill: Brahms & Messiaen on April 23, and Coleridge-Taylor (+ Mozart Gran Partita w/ Guildhall School of Music & Drama musicians) on April 26.

'This sonata is just one example of the treasure trove of repertoire that's just waiting to be rediscovered. All it takes is a bit of digging, patience and open-mindedness': Elena Urioste picks Mel Bonis' Violin Sonata as her Sentimental Work in @TheStrad.
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'It’s written beautifully for the violin: there are some tricky technical odds and ends, but it allows you to soar, fly and whisper with the instrument'

#Violinist Elena Urioste shares her thoughts on Mel Bonis’s 1914 Violin Sonata: trib.al/6dHBRju

We began the week with a certain sort of announcement (💿😜); we end the week with a real one!

Introducing the 1st in a 3-disc series celebrating the piano 4tets of Brahms alongside those of his lesser-known contemporaries. Brahms A/Le Beau drops May 24!
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Announcing: our next album!!! 💿🥳

We have been bursting with excitement to share some unfairly neglected gems from these quietly celebrated composers. Profanités: available now wherever you listen to your music!

About 20 years ago, I heard two friends open a Wigmore Hall recital with this brilliant (& hardly-played) Mendelssohn sonata and immediately decided I’d love to do the same one day… FINALLY doing it on Sun morning with Elena Urioste, plus Beach & Grieg!

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'This isn’t the only piece here to show off Elena Urioste's secure but sweet sound, nor the only one to convey an atmospheric vision of heaven... All else that’s required is a dimly lit room, a sumptuously upholstered armchair and a kir royale'

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Three-way tie I’d say ☺️☺️☺️

Hear Tom Poster and Elena Urioste perform music from their new album this Friday evening at St. Mark's #Kennington as part of #ClassicalVauxhall 🎻🎹

Tickets here: eventbrite.com/cc/classical-v…

More reviews for ‘Le Temps retrouvé’ 💿!

“a disc to cherish” - BBC Music Magazine
“another voyage of discovery from this dynamic musical couple” - The Strad
“The real find is the Sonata by Mel Bonis” - The Times and The Sunday Times

Hear the Bonis (+ Mendelssohn + JukeBox) beinvauxhall this Fri!

Londoners! There’s still a chance to see us perform at beinvauxhall Friday @ 8pm. Music by Mendelssohn, Bonis, + selections from #UriPosteJukebox (though contrary to the listing we have never and will never play anything by Elton John, sorry not sorry 😘)
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TOMORROW! Come and hear this and so many other gorgeous French gems at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre! Music by Hahn, Fauré, Bonis, Boulanger & Rameau. Words by Proust & Hahn. Featuring Karim Sulayman Elena Urioste Laura van der Heijden Tom Poster Schola Cantorum

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