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Fidelio Orchestra Cafe
91-95 Clerkenwell Rd
Holborn
London
EC1R 5BX
England
Tickets
Programme
Gideon Klein – String Trio (1944)
Antonin Dvorak – Piano Quartet no.2 in E flat major, Op.87
Ross Harris – Notes from the Front (Songs for Corporal Aitken)
Performers
Yura Lee – viola
Alice Neary – cello
Louis Schwizgebel – piano
Ben Johnson – tenor
Programme Note
This April, At the World's Edge (AWE) - a New Zealand chamber music festival that has earned exceptional audience ratings in its home country - makes its London debut with two nights of live performance timed around Anzac Day (25 April).
The festival takes place just before New Zealand’s Remembrance day, Anzac Day, and celebrates the ever-universal values of the Anzac spirit forged during the First World War by New Zealand and Australian soldiers: Courage, Sacrifice, Service, Comradeship, Remembrance, and Endurance.
The first evening opens with Gideon Klein's String Trio - a piece completed inside the Terezin concentration camp just days before the composer was deported to Auschwitz, and a remarkable act of artistic resolve. Ross Harris's Notes from the Front then sets the actual wartime letters of Alexander Aitken - the soldier whose violin story unfolds the following evening - for voice, violin, and piano. Dvorak's Piano Quartet No. 2 closes the night.
