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PATHS OF PASSION
Webern Langsamer Satz (1905)
Beamish ‘Gala Water’ for solo cello
Janacek On an Overgrown Path for string quartet
Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and viola
Loboda Requiem (for Ukraine) for violin solo
Dvorak String Quartet Op 96 ‘American’
Paul Barritt violin
Francesca Barritt violin
Matt Maguire viola
Joely Koos cello
This concert is a collection of highly-charged and varied pieces sharing an intensity which it is hard to imagine being expressed by any other medium than through music. Webern wrote his Langsamer Satz (slow movement) after the 21-year-old composer had been on a five-day hiking tour of the Austrian countryside. Ravishingly romantic, it has been described as ‘Tristan and Isolde compressed into 11 minutes’. Also partly inspired by the open air, we hear some of Janacek’s short pictures infused with Moravian folk melodies and Sally Beamish’s ‘The Gala Water' variations, based on a Scottish folk tune. Norwegian composer Halvorsen’s take on a Handel passacaglia reveals a scintillating set of virtuosic variations for two players. We honour the people of Ukraine by playing Loboda’s Requiem - a short solo violin tribute dedicated to the victims of the conflict in 2014 inspired by a folksong about the river Dneiper. The ever joyous quartet which Dvorak wrote whilst visiting the Czech immigrant community in deepest Iowa is deservedly one of the most popular in the chamber music repertoire.
Webern Langsamer Satz (1905)
Beamish ‘Gala Water’ for solo cello
Janacek On an Overgrown Path for string quartet
Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and viola
Loboda Requiem (for Ukraine) for violin solo
Dvorak String Quartet Op 96 ‘American’
Paul Barritt violin
Francesca Barritt violin
Matt Maguire viola
Joely Koos cello
This concert is a collection of highly-charged and varied pieces sharing an intensity which it is hard to imagine being expressed by any other medium than through music. Webern wrote his Langsamer Satz (slow movement) after the 21-year-old composer had been on a five-day hiking tour of the Austrian countryside. Ravishingly romantic, it has been described as ‘Tristan and Isolde compressed into 11 minutes’. Also partly inspired by the open air, we hear some of Janacek’s short pictures infused with Moravian folk melodies and Sally Beamish’s ‘The Gala Water' variations, based on a Scottish folk tune. Norwegian composer Halvorsen’s take on a Handel passacaglia reveals a scintillating set of virtuosic variations for two players. We honour the people of Ukraine by playing Loboda’s Requiem - a short solo violin tribute dedicated to the victims of the conflict in 2014 inspired by a folksong about the river Dneiper. The ever joyous quartet which Dvorak wrote whilst visiting the Czech immigrant community in deepest Iowa is deservedly one of the most popular in the chamber music repertoire.
19.30 (Doors open 19.00)
tickets:
Adultas £20
Under18s £10
tickets:
Adultas £20
Under18s £10
The Church of St John the Baptist Aldbury Hertfordshire HP23 5RW
Sat 18 June
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