Chamber Music: Mozart and Musgrave

Mozart wrote four flute quartets. He composed the first, Flute Quartet in D Major, in 1777 during a stay in Mannheim and the charming, virtuoso Oboe Quartet in F Major when he spent a few months in Munich in 1781. The Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave is considered one of the UK’s foremost composers. We will hear her Impromptu No. 1 and the poetic Cantilena for oboe quartet. The programme also includes the evocative Ambo for alto flute and violin by the award-winning Swedish composer Madeleine Isaksson.