Ensemble Renard

Tickets will go on sale to Platinum Friends at 10am on Tue 27 Jan, with Gold Friends booking from 10am on Wed 28 Jan, Friends booking from 10am on Fri 30 Jan and on general sale at 10am on Tue 10 Feb.

Ensemble Renard, 2025 CMF Artists, devote themselves to showcasing the breadth of colour the wind quintet is capable of. 

Their dedication to the genre has taken them to prestigious venues and festivals across the UK and abroad, including return appearances at the Aldeburgh Festival, Folkestone New Music, and BBC Radio 3’s In Tune. In this lunchtime recital they take the audience through a musical history from some of the earliest written music by 13th-century composer Pérotin, arranged by one of the most important composers in recent history, the late Oliver Knussen. 

This is followed by reimaginings of the music of Ravel’s much loved Le Tombeau de Couperin, and Bartók’s rhythmically charged Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm. No exploration of the wind quintet could be complete without the most celebrated work in the genre – the rich and expansive Wind Quintet by Carl Nielsen.