The Belinfantes are delighted to be returning to Buxton, where they had their latest UK album launch ‘Parallel 40’. This time to perform in the Buxton International Festival with pianist Alissa Firsova and double bassist Will Duerden.

Alissa has curated a programme of recent Russian music, ending with the expressively ambiguous Piano Quintet by Shostakovich, the fiftieth anniversary of whose death occurs in August this year.

Programme

Tribute to Dmitri Smirnov

D Smirnov Piano Quintet Op. 72

S Gubaidulina Pantomime

E Firsova Hymn to Spring, Op. 64

P Karmanov Spring Quaretet

D Smirnov Into the Light, Op. 193

D Shostakovich Piano Quintet Op. 57