Quartet Pro Musica / Thames Chamber Music at Riverside Arts Centre, London on Saturday 28th May 2016

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

Quartet Pro Musica / Thames Chamber Music

Part of the Thames Chamber Music Society - Spring Concert Series

Add to my Calendar 28-05-2016 19:30 28-05-2016 21:30 36 Quartet Pro Musica / Thames Chamber Music Riverside Arts Sunbury, 28 May 2016 An outstanding concert of classical chamber music given by the highly regarded Quartet Pro Musica takes place at the Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury-on-Thames, on Saturday May 28th, at 7.30pm. Tickets for reserved seats for the concert on May 28th can be bought on line athttps://www.ticketsource.co.uk/quartetpromusica. The concert will showcase three musical masterpieces from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. The concert opens with Haydn’s String Quartet, Op. 64 No. 5 in D major “Lark’, first performed in England and arguably the most popular of Haydn’s eighty-three string quartets, a perfect representative of the entire genre, and aptly described by Paul Epstein as “a story, a song, a dance and a party”. This is followed by the exotic, Iberian themed Turina String Quartet Op. 34, La Oración del Torero, a beautiful work full of shimmering atmosphere, bravado and passion. This leads after the interval to Schubert’s magnificent String Quartet No. 14 in D minor of 1824, posthumously titled ‘Death and the Maiden’ after the lied of the same name which influences the second movement. The D minor quartet stands as Schubert’s greatest quartet, an emotional tour de force, and among the finest in the entire quartet literature. Tickets for reserved seats for the concert on May 28th can be bought on line athttps://www.ticketsource.co.uk/quartetpromusica. Unreserved seat tickets will be available at the door.  (£12.50 single ticket; £5 student; £40 group of 4 ticket) For further information, connect with Quartet Pro Musica, via email (promusica.sec@gmail.com), Twitter (https://twitter.com/Qrtet_ProMusica), or Phone (07879 474 870). Riverside Arts Centre, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Riverside Arts Centre
59 Thames Street
Sunbury-on-Thames
London
TW16 5QF
England

Saturday 28th May 2016
7:30 PM

Programme

Joseph Haydn – String Quartet no.53 in D major 'The Lark', Op.64 no.5, Hob III:63
Joaquín Turina – La Oración del torero, Op.34
~ Interval ~
Franz Schubert – String Quartet no.14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden', D.810

Performers

Quartet Pro Musica

Programme Note

Riverside Arts Sunbury, 28 May 2016

An outstanding concert of classical chamber music given by the highly regarded Quartet Pro Musica takes place at the Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury-on-Thames, on Saturday May 28th, at 7.30pm.

Tickets for reserved seats for the concert on May 28th can be bought on line athttps://www.ticketsource.co.uk/quartetpromusica.

The concert will showcase three musical masterpieces from the 18th, 19th and 20th century.

The concert opens with Haydn’s String Quartet, Op. 64 No. 5 in D major “Lark’, first performed in England and arguably the most popular of Haydn’s eighty-three string quartets, a perfect representative of the entire genre, and aptly described by Paul Epstein as “a story, a song, a dance and a party”. This is followed by the exotic, Iberian themed Turina String Quartet Op. 34, La Oración del Torero, a beautiful work full of shimmering atmosphere, bravado and passion.

This leads after the interval to Schubert’s magnificent String Quartet No. 14 in D minor of 1824, posthumously titled ‘Death and the Maiden’ after the lied of the same name which influences the second movement. The D minor quartet stands as Schubert’s greatest quartet, an emotional tour de force, and among the finest in the entire quartet literature.

Tickets for reserved seats for the concert on May 28th can be bought on line athttps://www.ticketsource.co.uk/quartetpromusica. Unreserved seat tickets will be available at the door. (£12.50 single ticket; £5 student; £40 group of 4 ticket)

For further information, connect with Quartet Pro Musica, via email (promusica.sec@gmail.com), Twitter (https://twitter.com/Qrtet_ProMusica), or Phone (07879 474 870).

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