Kaleidoscope is one of the country’s leading chamber ensembles featuring some of the finest soloists of their generation.

Their programme culminates in a performance of Elgar’s great Piano Quintet, one of the most glorious and best-loved British chamber works. It was written in 1918, shortly before the composer’s Cello Concerto, with which it shares an elegiac quality.

Alongside it, Kaleidoscope presents two works which deserve to be heard far more often than they are: African- American composer George Walker’s Lyric for Strings has been described as a sunnier counterpart to Barber’s famous Adagio, while Korngold’s richly romantic Suite for two violins, cello and left-hand piano is one of the most exhilarating works in the repertoire, its virtuoso piano part written for Paul Wittgenstein, whose right arm had been amputated in the First World War.

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