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Programmes
23,
24, 26, 27 September
English String Quartet
Tristan Fry
percussion
- Haydn (1732-1809): String
Quartet in B minor, Op.64 No.2
- Schumann (1810-1856):
String Quartet in A major, Op.41 No.3
- Pavel Haas (1899-1944): "From
the Monkey Mountains" Op. 7 (1925) (original version for String Quartet
and Percussion)
A most original, imaginative and carefree work by
the Czech composer Pavel Haas, who was a pupil of Janácek, and whose
life ended in tragedy, with detention in the Terezin camp and death in Auschwitz.
30 September, 1, 3, 4 October
Martin Jones piano
English String Quartet
- Beethoven (1770-1827):
Piano Trio in B flat, Op.11
- Dvorak (1841-1904):
Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.87
- Korngold (1897-1957): Piano Quintet
E major, Op.15 (1924)
The Austro-Czech Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer
of operas, chamber, instrumental and orchestral music, wrote luscious, tuneful
and imaginative music from a very young age. In 1934 he moved to Hollywood,
where he became one of the most sought after composers of film music and
received two Oscars.
7, 8, 10, 11 October
English String Quartet
Duccio Lombardi
harp
Karin Leitner flute
Andrew Sparling
clarinet
- Roussel (1869-1937):
Serenade for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello (1925)
- Debussy (1862-1918):
Sonata for Harp, Flute and Viola
- Ravel (1875- 1937):
Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet
- Brahms (1833-1897):
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115
The fascination by French composers for the harp,
with its elegant and sensuous but brilliant sound, produced some imaginative
and exciting chamber music pieces, like the three in this programme.
On the other hand, the Clarinet Quintet which Brahms wrote at the end of
his creative life shows the German composer at his most profoundly expressive
and poetic.
14, 15, 17, 18 October
English String Quartet
Naomi Butterworth cello
- Mozart (1756-1791):
String Quartet in G major, K156
- John McCabe (b.1939): String Quartet No. 5 (1989)
- Schubert (1797-1828):
String Quintet in C major, D956
John McCabe's Quartet stems from a visit to Picton
Castle, Wales, where the series of aquatints The Bees by Graham Sutherland
made a strong impression on the composer. In his words, ‘this is first
and foremost an abstract work, influenced by a work of visual art and prompted
by it’.
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