Sunday 31 May 3 pm
London Chamber Ensemble Quartet
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Gordon MacKay (violin)
Bridget Carey (viola)
Joseph Spooner (cello)
Celebrating the release of their new album - Charles Wood string quartets
Charles Wood (1866-1926): String Quartet in E flat ‘The Highgate' (1893) 30'
Allegro / Moderato / Adagio / Animato
Charles Wood (1866-1926): String Quartet no.4 in A minor (1916) c28'
Allegro / Presto / Adagio / Presto
Come along to St Mary's Perivale
or watch LIVE on YouTube or Facebook
or watch the recording on YouTube
This string quartet of outstanding and experienced British chamber musicians was formed in 2019. Their album ‘Howells & Wood Quartets' (SOMM), premiere recordings, was widely praised, including by BBC Music Magazine, The Observer, Music Web International, Klassik.com and Sonograma. It was one of Gramophone's recommended recordings of 2024 and featured on BBC Radio 3. The LCE Quartet performed late Beethoven for the 250th anniversary, Schubert for the Schubert Society of GB and at the Howells and Stanford festival in Cambridge. They opened Kensington & Chelsea Music Society's season in a sold out concert with the Quartet no.5 by Joseph Horovitz and Brahms Clarinet Quintet: “superb high-quality chamber music-making' Musical Opinion”. They are increasingly in demand at major festivals and venues including Three Choirs, English Music, the international Red Violin Festival Leeds, Music in Country Churches and Pinner Music Festivals, HHH Concerts, on tour throughout the UK and at prestigious events including London's Glaziers Hall and the US Embassy/Fulbright Commission. Madeleine Mitchell won a Royal Philharmonic Society award for a film of her Anglo-Russian quartet programme with the V&A exhibition Fabergé: Romance to Revolution (on YouTube). A return invitation followed, again sold out, for their quartet concert ‘French Impressions' with the V&A Chanel exhibition.
The London Chamber Ensemble was founded by violinist Madeleine Mitchell in 1992 at the request of the Vale of Glamorgan Festival to perform Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps, a work they would play again for the BBC Proms and many other broadcast performances. Their recording of the Messiaen with Joanna MacGregor, coupled with Zygmunt Krauze's Quatuor pour la naissance, was the widely recommended version of the work for many years – by “an all star group which manages to outdo all its rivals” (Gramophone). Madeleine was asked by the William Alwyn Trust to put together an album for Naxos of Alwyn Chamber Music and Songs (2007), all first recordings. This was followed by the London Chamber Ensemble album for Naxos/BMS, Grace Williams Chamber Music (2019), consisting of all world-premiere recordings, which was named a Guardian CD of the Week and entered the Classical Charts at No.2: “Passionate and persuasive advocacy, gripping interpretations… more please” (Gramophone). The Rondo for Dancing video with violinists Mitchell, MacKay and cellist Spooner is featured on Classic FM. The LCE were invited to appear in the Southbank Centre's International Chamber Music Season, in Mitchell's programme “A Century of Music by British Women: 1921–2021”. This was live streamed from St John's Smith Square on International Women's Day, with wide media coverage on BBC Radio 4, Radio 3, Classic FM, Scala Radio, The Guardian, The Independent, BBC Music Magazine, The Strad (Premiere of the Month) and Musical Opinion: “very fine performances of a broad range of fresh and rewarding repertoire… the players brought energy, precision and interpretative imagination”.
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