Kings Place launches Chamber Classics festival
Year-long celebration of chamber music includes pieces as voted for by you!
Last May we asked readers of BBC Music Magazine to vote for their favourite pieces of chamber music. Now the result, revealed below, will form the centre-piece of a year-long festival at London’s Kings Place.
The top five chamber works, as voted for by you, were Schubert’s String Quintet, Mendelssohn’s String Octet, Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet, Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet K581 and Beethoven String Quartet Op. 130.
These works, plus the next 45 which received the most votes from our readers, will form the central strand of Top 50 Chamber Classics Unwrapped and will be performed by the likes of the Brodsky Quartet (pictured above), the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Dante Quartet and soloists including violinist James Ehnes, pianist Imogen Cooper and flautist James Galway.
But that’s not all. The festival will also include study days covering French chamber music, Beethoven’s String Quartets and Schubert’s late masterpieces.
The festival kicks off on 15 January 2014 and tickets are available to buy now from the Kings Place website.
BBC Music Magazine readers’ top 50 chamber works
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1. Schubert |
String Quintet |
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2. Mendelssohn |
String Octet |
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3. Schubert |
Piano Quintet in A major ('Trout Quintet') |
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4. Mozart |
Clarinet Quintet K581 |
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5. Beethoven |
String Quartet op. 130 (including the Grosse Fugue) |
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6. Schubert |
String Quartet No. 13 ('Death and the Maiden') |
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7. Brahms |
Clarinet Quintet in B minor |
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8. Shostakovich |
String Quartet No. 8 |
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9. Dvořák |
String Quartet No. 12 ('American') |
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10. Beethoven |
String Quartet Op. 131 |
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11. Messiaen |
Quartet for the End of Time |
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12. Beethoven |
String Quartet Op. 132 |
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13. Schumann |
Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44 |
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14.Beethoven |
Violin Sonata No. 9 ('Kreutzer') |
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15. Beethoven |
Piano Trio, Op. 97 ('Archduke') |
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16. Bach, JS |
The Art of Fugue (for string quartet) |
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17. Brahms |
Piano Quintet in F minor |
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18. Schoenberg |
Verklarte Nacht (for string sextet) |
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19. Ravel |
String Quartet |
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20. Bach, JS |
Violin Sonata No. 2 |
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21. Borodin |
String Quartet No. 2 |
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22. Bach, JS |
A Musical Offering |
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23. Mozart |
Serenade No. 10 ('Gran Partita') |
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24. Janáček |
String Quartet No. 2 ('Intimate Letters') |
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25. Franck |
Violin Sonatas |
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26. Beethoven |
String Quartet Op. 135 |
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27. Bartók |
String Quartet No 4 |
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28. Dvořák |
Piano Quintet No. 2 |
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29. Ravel |
Introduction and Allegro |
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30. Debussy |
String Quartet No. 1 |
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31. Shostakovich |
Piano Quintet |
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32. Rachmaninov |
Cello Sonata |
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33. Ravel |
Piano Trio |
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34. Schubert |
Octet |
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35. Bartók |
String Quartet No. 5 |
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36. Tchaikovsky |
String Sextet, Op. 70 ('Souvenir de Florence') |
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37. Beethoven |
Violin Sonata No. 5 ('Spring') |
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38. Elgar |
Piano Quintet |
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39. Janáček |
String Quartet No. 1 ('Kreutzer Sonata') |
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40. Bartók |
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion |
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41. Schubert |
Piano Trio No. 2 |
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42. Bach, JS |
Flute Sonata BWV1030 |
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43. Brahms |
Horn Trio |
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44. Debussy |
Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp |
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45. Mozart |
Divertimento in E flat K563 |
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46. Shostakovich |
Piano Trio No. 2 |
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47. Sibelius |
String Quartet, Op. 56 ('Voces Intimae') |
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48. Beethoven |
Piano Trio Op. 70, No. 1 ('Ghost') |
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49. Brahms |
String Sextet No. 1 |
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50. Nielsen |
Wind Quintet Op. 43 |
