Beethoven - Septet & Serenade
Ensemble 360
The Septet is one of Beethoven's sunniest works, and Ensemble 360 promote the happy mood with playing that emphasises bright, clear tone and springy rhythms… The Presto finale intensifies the...
Beethoven - Septet & Serenade
Ensemble 360
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The Septet is one of Beethoven's sunniest works, and Ensemble 360 promote the happy mood with playing that emphasises bright, clear tone and springy rhythms… The Presto finale intensifies the...
About
Ensemble 360 was formed in 2005 to take up residency in South Yorkshire with Music in the Round, succeeding The Lindsays who retired as a quartet in July 2005. The ensemble brings together musicians from across the globe to form one versatile ensemble of eleven musicians; five wind players, a pianist, double bassist and the Elias String Quartet. Their home performance space is the Crucible Studio in Sheffield – a 400 seat intimate venue with an extremely special atmosphere. Ensemble 360 believes in its concerts being informal, friendly and relaxed occasions and, although the musicians perform in many traditional chamber music venues they perform ‘in the round’ wherever possible. It is from this ‘in the round’ format that they take their name, Ensemble 360.
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Awards and reviews
December 2009
The Septet is one of Beethoven's sunniest works, and Ensemble 360 promote the happy mood with playing that emphasises bright, clear tone and springy rhythms… The Presto finale intensifies the performance's vivacious impression as Sara Bitllock attacks the G-string melody with gleeful panache, and later on her virtuoso passages light up the texture. The Serenade is another happy piece, but surprisingly neglected. Guy Eshed's pure, agile flute-playing leads a lively performance, by turns delicate and more robust.
11th April 2010
The Sheffield-based Ensemble 360...responds with elan to the perky brio of the youthful composer’s allegros, minuet and presto...Guy Eshed’s agile flute makes more than usual of the charming, if slight, Serenade for flute violin and viola...An immensely likeable disc.
