Fitzwilliam Quartet at Conway Hall, London on Sunday 2nd April 2023

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Fitzwilliam Quartet

Part of the Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, Summer 2023 Cycle

Add to my Calendar 02-04-2023 18:30 02-04-2023 20:30 36 Fitzwilliam Quartet The Fitzwilliam Quartet make a welcome return to Conway Hall in a concert featuring a rare performance of Rachmaninoff's early quartet, in honour of his 150th birthday, being celebrated this weekend! They complete their programme with some wonderfully entertaining Strauss, Mozart's A major quartet, dedicated to Haydn and admired by Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky’s final quartet, written as a memorial for Czech composer and violinist, Ferdinand Laub.   “The Fitzwilliam String Quartet, in my opinion, is, and has been for many years, Britain’s premier string quartet ensemble…….a flagship British ensemble that should be the pride of that nation.” Jerry Dubins, Fanfare (2015)   There will be a pre-concert recital at 17:30 by Italian pianist Paolo Rinaldi: Italian pianist Paolo Rinaldi kicks off our summer season in style with two much-loved gems of the piano repertoire. Brahms' hugely inventive set of variations on a theme by Handel was presented to Clara Schumann as a gift on her forty-second birthday. Robert Schumann's Second Piano Sonata was his final attempt in the genre, and was received somewhat critically by Clara, who wrote that she would play it "if necessary, but the masses, the public, and even the connoisseurs for whom one is really writing, don't understand it." Much to Clara's surprise, perhaps, the work became incredibly popular and it provides a passionate, virtuosic conclusion to Rinaldi's pre-concert recital. About the Sunday Concerts Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains. Conway Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England

Sunday 2nd April 2023
6:30 PM

Programme

Johann Strauss II (the Younger) – Tritsch-tratsch Polka, Op.214
Johann Strauss II (the Younger) – Pizzicato Polka
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet no.18 in A major, K.464
Sergei Rachmaninov – String Quartet no.1
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – String Quartet no.3 in E flat minor, Op.30

Performers

Fitzwilliam String Quartet

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Programme Note

The Fitzwilliam Quartet make a welcome return to Conway Hall in a concert featuring a rare performance of Rachmaninoff's early quartet, in honour of his 150th birthday, being celebrated this weekend! They complete their programme with some wonderfully entertaining Strauss, Mozart's A major quartet, dedicated to Haydn and admired by Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky’s final quartet, written as a memorial for Czech composer and violinist, Ferdinand Laub.

“The Fitzwilliam String Quartet, in my opinion, is, and has been for many years, Britain’s premier string quartet ensemble…….a flagship British ensemble that should be the pride of that nation.” Jerry Dubins, Fanfare (2015)

There will be a pre-concert recital at 17:30 by Italian pianist Paolo Rinaldi:

Italian pianist Paolo Rinaldi kicks off our summer season in style with two much-loved gems of the piano repertoire. Brahms' hugely inventive set of variations on a theme by Handel was presented to Clara Schumann as a gift on her forty-second birthday. Robert Schumann's Second Piano Sonata was his final attempt in the genre, and was received somewhat critically by Clara, who wrote that she would play it "if necessary, but the masses, the public, and even the connoisseurs for whom one is really writing, don't understand it." Much to Clara's surprise, perhaps, the work became incredibly popular and it provides a passionate, virtuosic conclusion to Rinaldi's pre-concert recital.

About the Sunday Concerts

Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains.

Fitzwilliam Quartet (c) Glen T Photography

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