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THIS WEEK: 1. 🎫 The Rite of Spring, Ivana Gavric & Tim Horton 🗓️ Fri 10 January, 7pm 📍 Sheffield Theatres Crucible Playhouse The Romantic lyricism of Rachmaninov’s Suite No.1 for two pianos and Shostakovich’s Concertino featuring rousing Soviet-era dance tunes open this all-Russian evening of music for two pianos. These sit alongside Stravinsky’s riotous masterpiece The Rite of Spring, all performed by two of the UK’s leading concert pianists, Tim Horton and Ivana Gavrić. 2. 🎫 Gershwin & The Great American Songbook, Lizzie Ball & James Pearson 🗓️ Sat 11 January, 2pm 📍 Sheffield Theatres Crucible Playhouse Violinist Lizzie Ball has performed around the world with stars including Nigel Kennedy, Ariana Grande and Hugh Jackman. She returns to her native Sheffield with pianist James Pearson for an afternoon of timeless music for violin and piano. Join them for a journey through the musical and personal encounters of some of the finest composers of the Great American Songbook and beyond. 3. 🎫 SOUNDS OF NOW: RAKHI SINGH Violin and electronics @rakhisinghmusic 🗓️ Sat 11 January, 8pm 📍 Sheffield Theatres Crucible Playhouse In her debut solo recital for Music in the Round, Rakhi, co-founder and Artistic Director of Manchester Collective performs exhilarating music for violin and electronics by Michael Gordon, Andrew Hamilton and others. Edmund Finnis’s Elsewhere sees delicate, whispered tones coaxed from the violin, while Julia Wolfe’s LAD (originally composed for nine bagpipes, arranged here for violin and electronics) is an extraordinary, immersive experience – a wall-of-sound unlike any other. Book here! #response" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://musicintheround.co.uk/whats-on/#response #thisischambermusic #piano #twopianos #russianmusic #violin #jazz #gershwin #contemporarymusic #electronicmusic #sheffieldmusic #sheffieldissuper