Rossetti Ensemble with Leon Bosch (double bass)

If you like your music to be rich in melody, this concert is for you! On the programme is Schubert’s Trout Quintet – one of the most famous pieces in the classical repertoire and a real earworm. The concert is given by the Rossetti Ensemble, four musicians with impeccable chamber music credentials, and the distinguished double-bass player, Leon Bosch. 

The Rossetti Ensemble have been entertaining audiences since 2018. All four members have had long, successful careers in their own right too, working with such artists as Tasmin Little, the Zehetmair Quartet, and the Philharmonia and Hallé orchestras.

Leon Bosch was the principal double-bass player for the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for 20 years.  He is now firmly established as an international conductor, soloist, teacher and writer.

Their programme this evening spotlights the unusual combination of piano quartet and double bass.  Vaughan Williams’s piano quintet is an early work that is only now beginning to establish itself in the repertoire. Schubert’s great Trout Quintet rounds off the evening. We begin with a short piano quartet by Arnold Bax, an English composer who was a friend of Vaughan Williams.

Programme

Bax - Piano Quartet in One Movement

Vaughan Williams - Piano Quintet in C minor

Schubert - Trout Quintet (Piano Quintet in A major, D667)

Picture credits: John Batten (Rossetti Ensemble) & Juno Snowdon Photography (Leon Bosch)