Victoria String Quartet at Lancaster Priory, Lancaster on Sunday 29th May 2022

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

Victoria String Quartet

Add to my Calendar 29-05-2022 15:00 29-05-2022 17:00 36 Victoria String Quartet Join us for the Lancaster premiere of the Victoria String Quartet! Sharing a passion for chamber music-making, they performed their first concert in 2017 at the Victoria Baths, Manchester. This programme, linked to the theme of 'age and ageing', begins with Beethoven's 'Serioso' quartet which was very experimental for its time (1810). In a letter to a friend Beethoven had written "If I had not read somewhere that no one should quit life voluntarily while he coulf still do something worthwhile, I would have been dead long ago...Oh life is so beautiful, but for me it is poisoned forever". We can hear this despair through the F minor key and the turbulent mood of this amazing quartet. The Cypresses, in contrast, are a selection of Dvorak's 18 love songs for a string quartet were arranged 2 years after their initial composition. The text for these songs comes from poems by Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky, from his collection 'Cypresses'. Finally, Tchaikovsky's first string quartet. Tchaikovsky was not known for his chamber music - many believe his chamber works to be poor in comparison to his larger scale works. That is, however, apart from his first string quartet. What he eventually composed ended up being wildly adored by audiences, and still is to this day. Lancaster Priory, Lancaster DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Lancaster Priory
Priory Close
Lancaster
LA1 1YZ
England

Sunday 29th May 2022
3:00 PM

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in F minor 'Serioso', Op.95
Antonin Dvorak – Love Songs, Op.83
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – String Quartet no.1 in D major, Op.11

Performers

Benedict Holland – violin
David Greed – violin
Jennifer Langridge – Cello
Vicci Wardman – viola

Victoria String Quartet

Programme Note

Join us for the Lancaster premiere of the Victoria String Quartet! Sharing a passion for chamber music-making, they performed their first concert in 2017 at the Victoria Baths, Manchester.

This programme, linked to the theme of 'age and ageing', begins with Beethoven's 'Serioso' quartet which was very experimental for its time (1810). In a letter to a friend Beethoven had written "If I had not read somewhere that no one should quit life voluntarily while he coulf still do something worthwhile, I would have been dead long ago...Oh life is so beautiful, but for me it is poisoned forever". We can hear this despair through the F minor key and the turbulent mood of this amazing quartet.

The Cypresses, in contrast, are a selection of Dvorak's 18 love songs for a string quartet were arranged 2 years after their initial composition. The text for these songs comes from poems by Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky, from his collection 'Cypresses'.

Finally, Tchaikovsky's first string quartet. Tchaikovsky was not known for his chamber music - many believe his chamber works to be poor in comparison to his larger scale works. That is, however, apart from his first string quartet. What he eventually composed ended up being wildly adored by audiences, and still is to this day.

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