The much-loved Dorus Trio will be returning to Benslow Music with a programme entitled: Romantic Spirit
Elizabeth Walker (flute), Sebastian Comberti (violoncello) and Richard Shaw (fortepiano)
Programme
Louise Farrenc - Trio op 45
Robert Schumann – 5 Stücke im Volkston op 102
interval
Carl Reinecke – Ballade op 288 for flute and piano
Felix Mendelssohn - Trio op 49
Biographies
ELIZABETH WALKER “As perfect a demonstration of the modern wood flute’s capabilities as one could wish to hear” A review from PAN magazine.
Elizabeth recorded the Telemann 12 Fantasias on a Flutemakers Guild wooden flute, made by Harry Sealey in the 1960’s with a head-joint by Robert Bigio. Elizabeth went on to record the Flute Sonatas by J.S. Bach on the same flute with her baroque group ‘Continuum'. Both these records are available at quartzmusic, Spotify and Apple Music. Elizabeth regularly performs on a baroque flute and recorder with the ‘English Baroque Soloists’, and the ‘Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’. She is a Pearl Flute Artist, working with the company to introduce the full range of silver and gold flutes, throughout the United Kingdom. She enjoys performing as a soloist on a variety of original early French flutes, including recitals in England, Holland, Canada and the USA with pianist Richard Shaw, performing on an early Louis Lot flute, no 435 from 1859. Together they have made a CD recording of Schubert’s works for the record label ‘Devine Music’ coupling the flute together with Chopin’s Pleyel piano dating from 1848. She has also recorded Reinecke’s Undine Sonata with Steven Devine on a slightly later Lot flute no 5527. This recording, along with many others, can be viewed on her YouTube channel @Lizfestive. Find out more at www.lizwalker.co.uk
Born in London, SEBASTIAN COMBERTI studied in Italy with Amedeo Baldovino and later with Derek Simpson and Sidney Griller at the Royal Academy of Music. He was a founder member of the Bochmann Quartet until 1983 when he became principal cello with the London Mozart Players. He plays with a number of chamber groups including Trio Goya and Divertimenti. A keen interest in historically informed performance has resulted in participation with a great many of London’s period instrument groups, appearing as principal cello and soloist with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Hanover Band. As a member of several chamber groups he has recorded for CRD, EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Meridian, Phoenix and RCA and CPO. In April 2001 Sebastian Comberti founded the Cd label Cello Classics, devoted to recordings of rare repertoire and artists, himself releasing several Cds of sonatas by Boccherini, Stephen Paxton and early 19th Century works with fortepiano, and concertos by Haydn and Zumsteeg with the OAE.
RICHARD SHAW specializes in chamber music and accompaniment and has performed extensively in Britain and abroad. In the last few years his many broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 include duo performances with violinists such as James Ehnes, Viviane Hagner, Leonidas Kavakos, So-Ock Kim, Pekka Kuusisto, Vadim Repin, Ittai Shapira and Nikolaj Znaider, cellists Richard Harwood and Li Wei, Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Martin Fröst (clarinet) and singers Nicole Cabelle, Jennifer Smith, Ailish Tynan, Alice Coote, Ruby Philogene, Jean Rigby, Anna Larsson, Robin Blaze, Michael Chance, Paul Agnew, Hal Cazalet, Kurt Streit, Matthew Rose, Jonathan Veira and Robert Pomakov. He is Staff Accompanist at the Royal Academy of Music and is currently writing a biography of the distinguished Russian mezzo-soprano, Maria Karinskaya (1882-1942), following his discovery of an unknown 400-page Russian manuscript based on Karinskaya’s lost memoirs. His music album, Malcolm Arnold: Songs and Arias, is published by Novello & Co/Music Sales shortly. His recent CDs for the Deux-Elles label include music by the great French flautist Phillipe Gaubert, with Kathryn Thomas (flute), the chamber works and piano solos of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, ‘Piper’s Dream’ (with Ensemble Lumière) featuring the piano solos, flute and chamber works of Cecilia McDowall, and ‘Fauré and his circle’. He has recorded 26 CDs for Cramer Music