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Berkhamsted Music

We hold five chamber music concerts a year in Berkhamsted and organise excursions to concerts at London venues. Our events can be booked online or through the contact details below. Berkhamsted concert tickets are available at the door.

Updates:

An audience that braved the rigours of Storm Darragh on Saturday 7 December were richly rewarded with a beautifully balanced programme of piano trios spanning three centuries.  Mozart’s lively Trio in B Flat Major was at the start of the process of liberating the three instruments from the roles they had historically fulfilled and provided greater opportunities for the violinist to shine.  Beethoven’s highly varied Ghost trio in D Major, with its wonderfully mysterious slow movement, written twenty years later, shows how far this process had advanced, with virtuosic, solo roles for all three instruments.  Moving just over one hundred years on from that, Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor written immediately prior to the start of the First World War, inhabits a quite different world and makes extreme demands on all three players both together and in highly exposed and deeply expressive solo roles.  At times it approaches a near symphonic density of texture without, in a performance as brilliantly clear as this one, losing any of its fine detail.  The Minerva Piano Trio played this highly varied repertoire with impressive technical skill and deep emotional commitment.  Ravel’s technically demanding but emotionally very direct music made a huge impression on the audience and was the most emotionally satisfying performance that I have witnessed in a long time.

Our season continues after Christmas on 15 February with the cellist Maxim Calver sponsored by the Countess of Munster Trust.

We are sorry to note the passing of Liz Wood in the past week. Liz was for several years a member of the Committee and her talents in flower arranging added to the colour of our stage.

Updated 8 December 2024