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

Details

National Centre for Early Music
St Margaret's Church
Walmgate

York
YO1 9TL
England


Programme

Joseph HaydnString Quartet no.52 in E flat major, Op.64 no.6, Hob III:64
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartClarinet Quintet in A major, K.581
Anton StadlerCaprice for solo clarinet

Performers

Emily Worthington – basset clarinet
Agata Daraskaite – violin
Magdalena Loth-Hill – violin
Elitsa Bogdanova – viola
George Ross – Cello

Consone Quartet

Other concerts in this Series (+)

Programme Note

This year we welcome back the award-winning Consone Quartet as guest artists for Baroque+ Day. The Consone Quartet are familiar to York audiences for their exhilarating performances of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, enriched by deep historical research into style and performance practice. This concert sees them collaborating with University of York historical-performance specialist Dr Emily Worthington in Mozart’s much-loved Clarinet Quintet, K. 581. Written in 1789 for his close friend, the brilliant clarinettist Anton Stadler, the Quintet uses Stadler’s newly invented ‘basset clarinet’ – an instrument that was only rediscovered in the twentieth century. The Quintet is paired with Haydn’s String Quartet in E-flat, op. 64, no. 6, written one year later in 1790 and dedicated to the Esterhazy violinist Johann Tost.

Baroque+ Day: Ah, Vienna!

Mozart wrote to his father in 1781 that Vienna was ‘the best place in the world’ to be a musician. This year’s Baroque+ Day takes a long view of musical life in the city in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, featuring historical performance staff and students from the University of York.

Consone Quartet & Emily Worthington

Get a route map

Your Map

If you have any questions, please contact us using the form below, or send an e-mail to info@classicalevents.co.uk.

All form fields are required.

Please check your details and try again.

Thank you for contacting us. We will contact you regarding your enquiry as soon as possible.