Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Details

Christ Church
35 Darley Avenue
West Didsbury

Manchester
M20 2ZD
England


Programme

Ludwig van BeethovenString Quartet in F minor 'Serioso', Op.95
Ludwig van BeethovenString Quartet in F major 'Razumovsky', Op.59 no.1
Aleksandr BorodinString Quartet no.2 in D major

Performers

Nicholas Ward – violin / director
Paula Smart – Violin
Richard Muncey – viola
Cara Berridge – Cello

Programme Note

Nicholas Ward and his colleagues get the Beethoven 250 celebrations going early! Their Beethoven Plus series starts on October 18th at Christ Church, West Didsbury, with two contrasting middle-period quartets set off by Borodin’s wonderfully tuneful String Quartet no 2. Op 95 is Beethoven’s shortest and most dramatic quartet with startling juxtapositions of darkness and light. Op 59 no 1 is a completely different work on a grand scale – Beethoven demonstrating his huge confidence and total command of his art. The Russian theme requested by Count Rasumovsky, who commissioned the three op 59 quartets, comes in the last movement.

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