Leon Bosch with the Rosetti Ensemble, Hexham and District Music Society
| April 13, 2026 | |
| 7:30 pm | |
| Queen’s Hall Arts Centre | |
| Hexham |
Melodies that stay with you
If you like your music to be rich in melody, this concert is for you! The Rossetti Ensemble are four musicians with impeccable chamber music credentials and they are joined this evening by the distinguished double-bass player, Leon Bosch. The evening’s highlight is Schubert’s Trout Quintet – one of the most famous pieces in the classical repertoire and a real earworm.
Reviewing a Rossetti Ensemble concert in 2023, the Stratford Herald praised it as a ‘memorable display of artistic brilliance’. The Strad Magazine has written of Bosch’s ‘startling virtuosity’. We’re in for a wonderful evening!
Introducing the Rossetti Ensemble
A group of extraordinary musicianship and flair, the Rossetti Ensemble have been entertaining audiences throughout the UK since 2018. All four members have had long, successful careers as soloists and chamber musicians in their own right too, working with artists including Tasmin Little, the Zehetmair Quartet, Andrew Watkinson and the Philharmonia and Hallé orchestras.
The ensemble have recently signed with Apple Music to record short pieces and single movements from the core piano quartet repertoire. The first of these – music by Brahms, Dvořák, Schumann and Fauré – came out in April 2025.
Their 2025 project, Batango, is a fusion of Bach and the tango king, Astor Piazzolla.
Praise and recognition for the Rossetti Ensemble:
‘A collective and individual display of how to deliver chamber music at world-class level’ – BBC Music Magazine
‘A delightful, warm, intimate evening of chamber music played with energy by such talented musicians’ – Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames
Introducing Leon Bosch
Leon Bosch was for 20 years the principal double-bass player for the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields orchestra and is now firmly established as an international conductor, soloist, teacher and writer.
He founded I Musicanti, a chamber group set up to explore music that has been lost and found or simply overlooked: great works by unknown composers and unknown works by great composers.
Praise and recognition for Leon Bosch:
Awarded the Walter Willson Cobbett Medal for services to Chamber Music by the Musicians’ Company in the City of London (2024)
‘Double-bassist Leon Bosch … can make his instrument sing enchantingly’ – Pizzicato Magazine
Programme
The Rossetti Ensemble have devised a programme spotlighting the unusual combination of piano quartet and double bass. Vaughan Williams’s piano quintet is an early work that is only now beginning to establish itself in the repertoire and, of course, we have Schubert’s great Trout Quintet to round off the evening. We start with a short quartet by the English composer (and contemporary of Vaughan Williams in the first half of the 20th century), Arnold Bax.
Bax Piano Quartet in One Movement
Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet in C minor
Schubert Trout Quintet (Piano Quintet in A major, D667)