Until Sun Jul 29, 7.30pm, Paxton House, Berwick upon Tweed, £15 (£7.50), 01289 386291, www.paxtonhouse.co.uk The final weekend of Music at Paxton, the recently revived chamber music series held in an Adam mansion in the Scottish Borders, begins tonight with a concert of works for guitar and voice from Canto Vivo, the duo formed by soprano Claire Debono and guitarist Simon Thacker. It's a relatively unusual combination in the concert hall and a gentle, rather sensuous change from the more common partnership of singer and piano, with Canto Vivo promising a programme that ranges from Renaissance lute songs to twentieth-century works.
Violinist Susanne Stanzeleit, one of the co-artistic directors of the original summer music series at Paxton, returns with the Primrose Piano Quartet, a group that also contains two members of the recently disbanded Lindsay Quartet, violist Robin Ireland and cellist Bernard Gregor-Smith, together with pianist John Thwaites. Over two concerts on Friday and Saturday the musicians perform a wide-ranging programme of piano quartets, trios and instrumental sonatas, including Faure's wonderful but undervalued Piano Quartet in C minor (which also recently appeared in the programme of the East Neuk Festival).
Stanzeleit also has a link with the Edinburgh Quartet which brings the series to a close on Sunday; she was once its leader. Her latest successor is Tristan Gurney, who makes one of his first official appearances with the quartet, playing Beethoven, Ravel and the Clarinet Quintet by Brahms, with clarinettist John Cushing.
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