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The Venue - Leeds College of Music
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
England
Programme
Anton Arensky – String Quartet no.2 in A minor, Op.35
Various – Les Vendredis
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Souvenir de Florence, Op.70
Performers
David Adams – viola
Alice Neary – Cello
Navarra String Quartet
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
In this concert we hear music from the two centres of musical life in Russia during the 19th century. Moscow was the more provincial city and Tchaikovsky’s home, whilst St Petersburg was the cultural centre of Russian life at this time.
Between 1885 and 1908 a group of composers, the 'Belyayev circle' met to perform chamber music in an informal setting. Works by the old masters, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were heard alongside something new written specifically for that evening. To gain entry to this circle one must have trained at the St Petersburg Conservatory, impressed Rimsky-Korsakov, and then receive an invitation to Belyayev's house.
Composers such as Borodin, Glazunov and Lyadov hoped their compositions would end up here. Arensky on the other hand decided to follow his own path. After studying with Rimsky-Korsakov in St Petersburg he returned to take up a post at the Moscow Conservatory. There he met Tchaikovsky, to whom this second string quartet is dedicated. Alice Neary joins the Navarra in this piece and David Adams completes the team for the much more frequently performed Souvenir de Florence. One of Tchaikovsky's sunnier works, it nonetheless caused the composer a considerable headache trying to escape from the string quartet form. After its revision two years after completion he finally remarked "At the moment, I'm terribly pleased with myself."
This concert is the second in the series of six concerts curated by the Gould Piano Trio:
06 October - Gould Piano Trio
28 November - Navarra String Quartet
12 December - Lucy Gould, Robert Plane, Benjamin Frith and Peter Hill
23 January - Gould Piano Trio
13 February - Navarra String Quartet
06 March - Lucy Gould, Alicy Neary, Benjamin Frith with Ilona Domnich
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Russia in Revolution
Gould Piano Trio - Artistic Directors
One hardly needs an excuse to programme such sumptuous and compelling works as these large scale Russian Masterpieces, but in the centenary year of the Russian Revolution we have the opportunity to hear the more familiar alongside some less frequently performed pieces.
In this series we look both ways, back towards Glinka and Tchaikovsky and forwards to Shostakovich and Stravinsky. We hear some compositions born from the Friday night meetings 'Les Vendredis' in St Petersburg and we have a concert of Debussy and Stravinsky - two decades apart in age but connected by their admiration for each other. Later in the season a rarely heard arrangement of the Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade for clarinet and piano trio, no less exciting for its fewer performers, will certainly shed new light on the piece. The elegiac trio, a thread running through the series, was taken up by many of the great Russian composers spanning some 50 years. Where would the trio repertoire be without these giants?!
We look forward to welcoming our guests, the Navarra String Quartet, Peter Donohoe, Peter Hill, Ilona Domnich, Robert Plane and David Adams and to giving you, our audience, a taste of some colourful and epic adventures.
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