Images of Folk
Ensemble Mirage, led by founder and clarinettist Matthew Scott
The concert is at 7:30pm on Saturday 21st March 2026. Tickets can be bought on-line here or on the door.
Programme:
Matthew Scott and Ensemble Mirage return to Amersham concert Club for our final concert of the season. He brings a programme with an exciting combination of instruments; clarinet, horn violin, viola, cello and piano.
From America to England to Russia to Hungary, experience four riveting and rarely heard works for mixed winds, strings and piano. Liebermann’s dreamy, rhapsodic Quintet gives way to Vaughan Williams iconic language inspired by English folk song. Turning away from Jewish Folk inspirations following persecution under Stalin, Mikhail Gnesin explores Circassian folk idioms from Adygea (UK Premiere). Finally, from the Grandfather of Christoph von Dohnanyi, hear Ernst von Dohnanyi’s masterful Sextet, with his iconic Neo-Romantic, Hungarian folk inspired musical goulash!
Ensemble Mirage, led by founder and clarinettist Matthew Scott
The concert is at 7:30pm on Saturday 21st March 2026. Tickets can be bought on-line here or on the door.
Programme:
| Lowell Liebermann | Quintet, Op. 26 |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Quintet in D major |
| Interval | |
| Mikhail Gnesin | Adygea, Op. 48 |
| Ernst von Dohnanyi | Sextet in C major, Op. 37 |
Matthew Scott and Ensemble Mirage return to Amersham concert Club for our final concert of the season. He brings a programme with an exciting combination of instruments; clarinet, horn violin, viola, cello and piano.
From America to England to Russia to Hungary, experience four riveting and rarely heard works for mixed winds, strings and piano. Liebermann’s dreamy, rhapsodic Quintet gives way to Vaughan Williams iconic language inspired by English folk song. Turning away from Jewish Folk inspirations following persecution under Stalin, Mikhail Gnesin explores Circassian folk idioms from Adygea (UK Premiere). Finally, from the Grandfather of Christoph von Dohnanyi, hear Ernst von Dohnanyi’s masterful Sextet, with his iconic Neo-Romantic, Hungarian folk inspired musical goulash!
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“a powerful experience” Mike Wheeler, Classical Music Daily
“it was a most wonderful and enjoyable concert, thank you very much indeed for coming and playing for us” William Morris Gloucester Music Society
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“a powerful experience” Mike Wheeler, Classical Music Daily
“it was a most wonderful and enjoyable concert, thank you very much indeed for coming and playing for us” William Morris Gloucester Music Society
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Ensemble Mirage is a dynamic flexi-ensemble, focusing on the fantastic range of mixed Wind-String-Piano chamber music. From trios to octets – working with a small group of dedicated, passionate and award-winning chamber musicians – they aim to expand the standard chamber repertoire, bringing to light many often over-looked works. Each programme focuses on a particular instrumental combination, presenting the well-known works alongside more rarely heard pieces for that chamber medium. Several members of Ensemble Mirage have played for us at Amersham in the past as soloists and in duos, as well as with Ensemble Mirage.
This programme focuses on the ‘Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano Sextet’, alongside a couple of Quintets.
This programme focuses on the ‘Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano Sextet’, alongside a couple of Quintets.
Finalists in the 66th Royal Overseas League Mixed Chamber category and Making Music Selected Artists ('Matthew Scott and Friends'), they were also St. John’s Smith Square Young Artists and held an Aldeburgh Chamber Music Residency. Evolving from Trio Mirage – Royal Academy of Music Chamber Fellows and Harold Craxton Prize winners – the ensemble grew to explore larger repertoire resulting in the foundation of Ensemble Mirage.
Individually members are award winning artists in their own right active across all areas of the profession, from solo, chamber and orchestral, to outreach work; performing with many of the UK’s top orchestras. With many members alumni of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme and Making Music’s Award for Young Concert Artists, the ensemble has grown and performed in various combinations for Music Societies and Festivals throughout the UK.
Individually members are award winning artists in their own right active across all areas of the profession, from solo, chamber and orchestral, to outreach work; performing with many of the UK’s top orchestras. With many members alumni of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme and Making Music’s Award for Young Concert Artists, the ensemble has grown and performed in various combinations for Music Societies and Festivals throughout the UK.
