15/02/2026
What happens when composers become each other’s teachers, critics, and friends?
Sounding Boards celebrates the musical friendships that changed history. From Mozart and Haydn trading ideas around a quartet table to Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms inspiring one another across generations, these relationships sparked creativity that continues to resonate today.
Across Europe and beyond, composers shaped each other’s voices through mentorship, collaboration, and shared curiosity. Fauré and Saint‑Saëns sustained a lifelong artistic partnership, Bartók and Kodály transformed folk research into modern composition, and Copland, Bernstein, and Barber forged a distinctly American sound. Holst and Vaughan Williams, trusted companions in craft, helped define English music for a new century.
Join the Bach Choir for Sounding Boards, a concert woven from these remarkable connections. This programme brings together music born from friendship, respect, and shared artistic vision, inviting audiences to hear how great composers shaped one another and the worlds they lived in.
Saturday 18 April, 2pm
St Andrew's on the Terrace
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