This event is part of Newbury Spring Festival 2025 programme
Septura Brass Septet: One Equal Music
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Platinum priority booking goes on sale on Tuesday 11 February at 10am. Gold priority booking goes on sale on Wednesday 12 February. Friends priority booking goes on sale on Thursday 13 February. Tickets go on general sale on Tuesday 25 February at 10am.
Septura, now celebrating their 10th anniversary, comprises some of the finest brass players of their generation.
Their creation – the brass septet – is uniquely vibrant and versatile, and aims to harness its intense emotional power to produce transformative musical experiences for audiences. The fate of brass chamber music mirrors that of the female composers of the past – marginalised, neglected, ignored for centuries, and only now coming to the fore.
Tonight’s concert places the music of two female composers, Élisabeth Jacquetde la Guerre and Clara Schumann, alongside that of their historically more celebrated male contemporaries. They also include baroque music inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses and romantic music originally for the keyboard, imagining a world in which these men and women had written for brass.
Location: Church of the Ascension, Burghclere, RG20 9HX
Duration: 1 hr 55 mins (approx)
Sponsored by: Mr and Mrs John Skinner
Rameau - Suite from Dardanus
Bach Suite from Geschwinde, geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde
de la Guerre
Suite from Céphale et Procris
Brahms
Five Chorale Preludes
Clara Schumann Piano Sonata
in G minor
Mendelssohn Organ Sonata
in C minor