Chamber Music Repertoire

Symphonia Academica has performed a large number of works and are constantly adding new repertoire. Below are some examples of works we can offer:

Duos:

Violin and piano: Carwithen, Ferguson, Mozart, Beethoven, Faure, Strauss.
Violin and cello: Kodaly, Handel-Halvorsen, Ravel, Glière.

Trios:

String trios: Beethoven, Weiner, Kodály, Bach Goldberg Variations, Dohnányi Beethoven, Schubert.
Piano trios: Ravel, Beethoven, Faure, Bridge, Haydn.

Quartets (mixed):

Mozart’s flute, oboe and piano quartets;
Vaughan Williams’s Suite de Ballet for flute and string trio;
Britten’s Phantasy oboe quartet;
Mozart’s The Magic Flute overture arranged for flute quartet;
Rossini’s The Barber of Seville overtures arranged for flute quartet;
Piano quartets by Brahms.

String quartet:

Works by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Debussy, Ravel, Carwithen, Shostakovich.
Shorter works: Koncz’s A New Satiesfaction; Danish String Quartet’s Woodworks; Sebastian Gurtler’s arrangements of Latvian folk melodies.

Quintets:

Mozart’s clarinet quintet;
York Bowen’s quintet for bass clarinet and string quartet;
oboe quintets by Bliss, Bax and Boccherini;
piano quintets by Schubert (The Trout) and Dvořák;
horn quintets by Mozart and York Bowen;
viola quintets by Mozart and Mendelssohn.

String Sextets:

Strauss Prelude to Capriccio; Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht,
Wagner Prelude to Tristan and Isolde;
Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence;
Dvořák’s String sextet in A.

Six or more player (mixed):

Eight Seasons by Vivaldi and Piazzolla for string quintet and marimba;
Haydn’s London symphonies arranged by Salomon for six players;
Mahler’s Symphony No 4 arranged for 15 players;
Debussy’s Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune arranged for 10 players;
Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew themes for six players.