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St John the Evangelist Church
Church Lane
West Meon
Hampshire
GU32 1LF
England
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Trio in G major, Op.9 no.1
Ernest Chausson – Piano Quartet, Op.30
Performers
Primrose Piano Quartet
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Programme Note
Live music returns to West Meon
While the ongoing Covid-19 crisis has forced the Primrose Piano Quartet to scale back on its plans for the 10th Anniversary West Meon Music Festival in September, the quartet is now going ahead with its alternative “mini-festival”.
West Meon church is happy to host a socially-distanced audience of up to 65 for three concerts on 11th and 12th September and with Government confirmation that indoor concerts can take place from15 August it means that – barring a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases and an ad hoc lockdown – live chamber music will be heard again in the district.
“Like all self-employed musicians we have seen every one of our scheduled concerts cancelled since lockdown began in March,” says Andrew Fuller, the quartet’s cellist and festival musical director. “We’ve missed performing just as much as our audiences have missed listening to live music.”
The three short concerts (no intervals to avoid unnecessary social contact among the audience) on Friday evening, Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening will include such favourites as Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E-flat and Beethoven’s String Trio in G major. Saturday afternoon’s concert is a tribute to the plight of the musician in lockdown with each member of the quartet performing their favourite solo works – including a Bach cello suite and chaconne for violin, one of Brahms’ piano intermezzo and Stravinsky’s Elegy for Viola. There will also be a distinct French flavour to the programmes with works by Fauré and Chausson reflecting the quartet’s next planned CD to be released in 2021.
Full details of the concert programmes can be found on the festival website (www.westmeonmmusic.co.uk) with online booking now available for tickets at £15 for main aisle seats and £12 for side aisles. Given the limited number of seats available, early booking is recommended and concert goers will need to indicate whether they are booking tickets for a single household or bubble to meet track and trace guidelines and allow seats to be preallocated. If you are unable to book online then please contact the box office on 01489 891055 for alternative options.
For those looking further ahead the planned “10th anniversary” festival will now be held from 9-12 September 2021 when guests will include clarinettist Michael Collins, guitarist Laura Snowden and BBC Young Musician Strings winner 2018, cellist Maxim Calver.
