Ensemble 360

A programme of
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin for piano and winds (arr. Walter)
STRAUSS Metamorphosen for septet
BRAHMS Piano Quartet in C minor Op.60

Members of Ensemble 360 perform a selection of deeply beautiful and tender music in this moving concert, forming part of Love and War Music in the Round’s Festival of World Class Chamber Music. Each of the works in the programme is permeated with a profound sense of loss: Ravel dedicated his Tombeau de Couperin to friends who had lost their lives in the First World War; Strauss’s Metamorphosen, is a deeply-felt elegy – a memorial to the ravages of war and particularly to the city of Munich; Brahms’s C minor Piano Quartet is full of allusions to his friends, Robert and Clara Schumann, with a radiant slow movement at its heart. Phrases that plaintively seem to utter the name ‘Clara’ may be an especially telling statement of Brahms’s complex relationship with the Schumanns.