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The Venue - Leeds College of Music
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
England
Programme
Simon Holt – Everything Turns Away
Reinhold Glière – 8 Pieces for violin and cello, Op.39: Selection (arr. double bass)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K.493
Performers
Arcturus
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Programme Note
Simon Holt’s piece everything turns away is a response to Breughel's painting The Fall of Icarus. Icarus has flown too close to the sun, and the wax gluing his feathery wings has melted. The painting shows him falling into the sea close to the shore, but no-one notices, and life on shore goes on without interruption. Holt has conceived his work much more theatrically than is usual in chamber music: the strings play in the manner of folk going about their own business, then comes the catastrophe……
A selection from Glière’s fine Duo provides us with a great opportunity to hear what has become a rare showcase for double bass, in partnership with the violin.
Mozart’s Second Piano Quartet is a prime example of its composer’s championing of the new-fangled pianoforte and the somewhat unappreciated viola. Mozart confounded amateur performers with something too difficult for them to play, and too complex for their listeners to enjoy. The piano quartet, therefore, struggled to get off the ground. How things have changed – today this quartet is much-loved and widely accepted as a masterpiece.
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