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Moonlight, and the mysterious and magical sphere of night, has also inspired some remarkable instrumental music. And so our constellation of artists includes cellist Cara Berridge, violinist Fenella Humphreys and French horn player Francesca Moore-Bridger. We hear Cara perform Debussy’s Cello Sonata and Schumann’s Fantasiestücke Op 73. Francesca plays the serene Nocturno by Strauss and Fenella draws the curtain on the evening with Elgar’s great 'song without words' Chanson de nuit.
Voice and instrument combine to chilling effect in Strauss’s rarely performed Notturno. And, at the sight of stars in the “sacred distance” at the end of Auf dem Strom, Schubert’s song for tenor and horn, we hear sublime music from this great genius of composers with a special affinity for the night.
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