Details
Pinner Parish Church
Church Lane
Harrow
London
HA5 3AA
England
Tickets
Prices: £16
Book Tickets
Programme
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet no.32 in C major 'The Bird', Op.33 no.3, Hob III:39
Herbert Howells – String Quartet no.3 'In Gloucestershire'
Maurice Ravel – String Quartet in F major
Performers
Madeleine Mitchell – violin
Gordon MacKay – violin
Bridget Carey – viola
Joseph Spooner – Cello
London Chamber Ensemble Quartet
Programme Note
LCE - Madeleine Mitchell, Gordon MacKay, Bridget Carey & Joseph Spooner – perform contrasting String Quartets. They open with the evergreen Haydn Quartet The Bird, in the opening of which the leader strikingly evokes birdsong, which returns throughout. They then bring us the magical In Gloucestershire by Herbert Howells, and conclude with Ravel’s glorious String Quartet, “a svelte, polished, sensuous masterpiece”, published when he was just 28.
