Tuesday Night Live.

BIG BAMBOO plays old school hot dance music from the Caribbean islands and Brazil – Rumba, Choro, Mento, Beguine and Merengue – in an acoustic and improvised style reminiscent of New Orleans jazz.

Join the ranks of celebrities and royalty as you ride this legendary train* travelling from Istanbul to Sleepy Willow, via London and Europe. Some of the most notorious spies and courtesans mingled with the rich and famous in the heyday of this opulent hotel on wheels. In January this year the train was renovated to recapture the romanticism of the early 20th Century, whilst incorporating modern day technology. We are confident that this will be a year to remember for our famous express. Fancy dress is encouraged.

This one-day stained glass workshop is an invitation to step into an ancient art form — to cut, shape, and join pieces of coloured glass into a leaded panel that transforms with every shift of light.

Guided  by over three decades of experience, I’ll share not only the practical skills but also the subtleties that give stained glass its unique character.

By the end of the day, you’ll have created a panel — a composition of colour and form that reveals its true beauty when light passes through.

Junyan Chen – piano
Alim Beisembayev – piano

Francis Poulenc - Elégie (for two pianos)
Francis Poulenc - Sonata for piano four hands
Sergei Rachmaninov - Suite for two pianos No 1
Sergei Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances (for two pianos)

Echoing Route/Root’s themes of memory, migration and the tension between vulnerability and grandeur, this all-20th-century programme for two pianos balances intimacy and power. Francis Poulenc’s Elégie is brief but poignant, while his Sonata for piano four hands is full of quirky charm.

Lydia Walquist – flute
Mikołaj Piszczorowicz – cello
Xiaowen Shang – piano

Claude Debussy - Piano Trio
Lili Boulanger - D’un matin de printemps
Francis Poulenc - Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Maurice Ravel - Piano Trio
Paul Schoenfield - Café Music

Charlotte Spruit – violin
Edgar Francis – viola
Hugh Mackay – cello
Junyan Chen – piano

Frank Bridge - Phantasy for Piano Quartet
George Enescu - Piano Quartet No 2
Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Shades of Silence
Gabriel Fauré - Piano Quartet No 1