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Salon Music Supper Concert
The Vauxhall Band
Basset Horn Trio
Sunday 6th July 2025
The Vauxhall Band Basset Horn Trio, Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow and Katherine Spencer, return to perform in the amazing Salon Music concert series in Highgate, London, along with special guest bassoonist Chris Rawley.
Enjoy an eighteenth-century inspired supper after the concert, created by food historian and host Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, which is included in the ticket price.
A wooden, single reed wind instrument, closely related to the clarinet, the basset horn was mostly heard in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Austria and Germany, with historical evidence dating the earliest known instruments to the 1760’s.
When Czech musicians Messrs Dworschak, David and Springer came to London in 1789 and performed at Vauxhall Gardens as a Basset Horn Trio, the instrument was relatively new to London. These mysterious and unusual sounding instruments with their colourful, earthy tones created great interest.
The ensemble will perform a concert of music by Mozart, Hoffmeister, Druschetzky and Nudera.
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The Vauxhall Band Basset Horn Trio
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