Classical preview: Sheffield's Music in the Round

We tend to forget that Beethoven was the first major composer who never sold his music to the nobility, but created it to become the property of mankind and to those who listened to it.
By The Newsroom
Published 1st Apr 2016, 07:24 BST

This year Sheffield’s Music in the Round focuses the two weeks of its annual Chamber Music Festival on the vast wealth of music we have inherited from him, in a series of fourteen lunchtime and evening concerts at the Crucible Theatre Studio.

“There is no dress code, no big stage to keep performers at a distance, nothing you need to know about music in advance,” says the Artistic Director, Angus Smith. “And if you are under 35, tickets are just £5.”

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From the solo piano of Tim Horton playing the ‘Diabelli’ Variations (May 11), to the seven members of Ensemble 360 taking part in the Septet (May 6), the festival uses the various permutations of the Sheffield-based group to give a birds-eye view of his considerable output.

Guests of the Festival include one of the world’s most acclaimed groups, the Norwegian-based Vertavo String Quartet, who will in four concerts look at Beethoven’s legacy used by those who followed (May 11 & 12); the period instrument, Avison Ensemble (May 10); the baritone, Roderick Williams (May 8); Sheffield-born pianist, Benjamin Frith (May 14), and taking an unusal look at the composer, the jazz pianist, Julian Joseph (May 13).

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival, May 6-14. Tickets 0114 2496000 or www.musicintheround.co.uk.

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