Chamber Spotlight: Beethoven’s Ghost

Name: Chamber Spotlight: Beethoven’s Ghost
Start: 2026-03-04 18:00:00
Location: Performance Hall

Dates
04 March 2026, 6:00pm

Venue
Performance Hall

Tickets
£6.50 (incl ticket fee)

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04 March 2026, 6:00pm

Venue
Performance Hall

Tickets
£6.50 (incl ticket fee)

Priority booking now open

RCM Friends and supporters at Core Contributor level and above have priority booking from Wednesday 3 December. General booking opens for our Spring Season on Wednesday 10 December.

Become a member and benefit from priority booking.

Programme to include:
Beethoven Piano Trio no 5 in D major op 70 no 1, 'Ghost'

'Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me' – Shakespeare’s Macbeth

In the first of this season’s Chamber Spotlight series, RCM musicians explore Shakespearean themes in Beethoven’s 1808 piano trio. It has been said that Macbeth’s second victim, Banquo, makes a ghostly appearance in the eerie-sounding slow movement...

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