CMC Rare Music Series

Rediscovering the classical heritage.

There’s a wealth of music in the classical canon that is simply never heard. Works disappear for reasons that might have nothing to do with their worth. CMC researches forgotten chamber music and puts it back where it belongs – in the centre of the repertoire.

The CMC Rare Music Series is devoted to this unusual music. We take a work, breathe fresh life into it and put it back on stage in a vibrant context to suit.

Started in 2003, the series is a springboard for interest in great works of the past.  The inaugural concert, at the Purcell Room in May 2003, featured ‘the greatest work Liszt never wrote’ (The Independent): Robert Volkmann’s Trio in B flat minor – so beloved of Liszt that the great pianist toured it round Europe with violinist Joachim and cellist Cossman – and  turned Volkmann into an overnight celebrity.

The second concert featured the piano quintet of Ludomir Rozycki – a masterpiece of Romantic opulence from before the First World War. 

The Rare Music Series set these two works in a wonderful context showing them to best advantage:

Volkmann Concert

BEETHOVEN            Piano Trio in D major, Opus 70 No. 1 Ghost

LISZT                                    Vallée D’Obermann for piano trio

VOLKMANN             Piano Trio in Bb minor, Opus 5

Rozycki Concert

MOZART                   Piano Quartet in E flat major

MAHLER                   Piano Quartet in A minor

ROZYCKI                  Piano Quintet in C minor

Fibich Concert

DVORAK                               Dumky Trio in E minor

KHATCHATURIAN             Clarinet Trio

SCHUMANN                         Adagio & Allegro for horn & piano

FIBICH                                  Piano Quintet in D for piano trio, clarinet & horn

New for 2010: 

Friedmann Concert

SCHUBERT               String Trio in Bb

STRAUSS                  Piano Quartet

FRIEDMANN           Piano Quintet

Or

DVORAK                   Piano Quintet in A

FRIEDMANN           Piano Quintet

To book CMC to perform any of the above concerts please click here and contact Mark.