+ Pleyel Ensemble
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‘Brings together some of the UK’s leading instrumentalists who share a passion for chamber music past and present. The group was formed in Manchester in January 2011: however, we have been performing together in various guises and combinations for over twenty years. We are friends and colleagues who draw on a wealth of experience gained through many years of music-making. We take our name from the Classical composer Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831), a brilliant musician and businessman who, in addition to writing a large body of accessible chamber music, helped increase the popularity of this wonderful kind of music-making amongst amateurs and professionals as both music publisher and piano manufacturer in the early nineteenth century ... We make British music a priority. Between us we have commissioned or premiered more than a hundred works and recognise both the importance and necessity of continuing this work.’
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