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SUMMARY:Ensemble Mirage -  An Afternoon of Autumnal Clarinet Colours
DESCRIPTION:Artists: Ensemble Mirage (clarinet and string quartet) – Matthew Scott (clarinet)\, Michael Newman (cello)\, Rosemary Hinton (violin)\, Emily Pond (viola) and Alexandra Lomeiko (violin) \nConcert Sponsor: Keith Stokes-Smith \nProgramme\n\nJohannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor\, Op. 115\nPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Takemitsu) – Herbstlied (Autumn Song)\nInterval\nHerbert Howells – Rhapsodic Quintet\, Op. 31\nJean Françaix – Clarinet Quintet\n\nAbout the Concert\nOn Sunday 22 November\, Ensemble Mirage brings music for clarinet and string quartet to nadsa for the first time in 30 years. At its heart stands Brahms’s autumnal masterpiece\, the Clarinet Quintet in B minor\, partnered by an English gem from Herbert Howells\, the witty French elegance of Jean Françaix\, and a haunting miniature by Tchaikovsky arranged by Toru Takemitsu. It is a programme that places the well-loved alongside the unjustly neglected: the speciality of this enterprising ensemble. \nFour Voices for Clarinet and Strings\nThe afternoon opens with Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet\, written in the summer of 1891 for the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld\, whose playing drew the composer out of a brief retirement. Valedictory and elegiac\, it is among the supreme achievements of his final years\, glowing with warmth and quiet regret. It received its first private performance that November in Meiningen\, with Mühlfeld and the Joachim Quartet. The first half then closes with Takemitsu’s gentle arrangement for clarinet and strings of Tchaikovsky’s Autumn Song\, the October piece from The Seasons\, premiered in this guise in 1993. \nAfter the interval comes Howells’s Rhapsodic Quintet of 1919\, a single flowing movement of mystic\, song-like beauty written in the aftermath of the First World War\, and one of the finest English chamber works of its time. The programme closes with the Clarinet Quintet by Jean Françaix\, composed in 1977 in his inimitable French style: elegant\, neoclassical and brimming with wit. \nAbout the Ensemble\nEnsemble Mirage is a dynamic flexi-ensemble focusing on the fantastic range of mixed wind\, string and piano chamber music. From trios to octets\, this small group of dedicated\, passionate and award-winning musicians aims to expand the standard chamber repertoire\, bringing to light many often overlooked works\, with each programme focusing on a particular instrumental combination and presenting the well-known alongside the more rarely heard. They are Making Music Recommended Artists and finalists in the Mixed Chamber category of the 66th Royal Over-Seas League competition; they were also St John’s Smith Square Young Artists and held an Aldeburgh Chamber Music Residency. The ensemble evolved from Trio Mirage\, Royal Academy of Music Chamber Fellows and Harold Craxton Prize winners\, growing to explore this larger repertoire. \nWhy You Shouldn’t Miss This\nConcerts for clarinet quintets are a rarity. Few combinations in chamber music are as beguiling\, and especially in nadsa’s intimate setting. This carefully curated programme showcases the range of the ensemble’s expression – from Brahms’s late tenderness to the sparkle of Françaix.
URL:https://nadsa.co.uk/event/ensemble-mirage/
LOCATION:The Courtenay Centre\, Kingsteignton Road\, Newton Abbot\, Devon\, TQ12 2QA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Barbican Quartet - Three Worlds of the String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Artists: Barbican Quartet (string quartet) – Amarins Wierdsma (Violin)\, Kate Maloney (Violin)\, Christoph Slenczka (Viola) and Yoanna Prodanova (Cello) \nConcert Sponsor: Ruth & Peter Lowe \nProgramme\n\nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet in D major\, K 575\nAlexander Zemlinsky – String Quartet No. 2\, Op. 15\nInterval\nLudwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in C major\, Op. 59 No. 3\, “Razumovsky”\n\nAbout the Concert\nOn Sunday 21 March\, the prizewinning Barbican Quartet make their eagerly anticipated return to nadsa. Winners of First Prize at the 2022 ARD International Music Competition in Munich\, this is a quartet renowned for its distinctive sound and deeply personal interpretations. Their programme spans more than a century. It opens with the elegance of Mozart’s late “Prussian” quartet\, continues with the searching intensity of Zemlinsky and finishes with one of Beethoven’s boldest and most exhilarating works\, the third of the Razumovsky quartets. \nA Journey Across the String Quartet\nThe afternoon opens with Mozart’s String Quartet in D major\, K 575\, composed in 1789 and the first of the three “Prussian” quartets\, among the last he completed. Written with the cello-playing King of Prussia in mind\, it gives the cello unusual prominence and shares its graceful\, song-like material democratically among all four players. There follows Zemlinsky’s String Quartet No. 2\, a large and harmonically adventurous work of 1913 to 1915\, cast as a single continuous span. Bound up with the personal crises surrounding his circle\, including his brother-in-law Arnold Schoenberg\, it is music of extraordinary emotional pressure and ambition. \nAfter the interval comes Beethoven’s String Quartet in C major\, Op. 59 No. 3\, the last of the three quartets composed in 1806 for the Russian ambassador Count Razumovsky\, and a landmark of his middle period. From its mysterious\, harmonically veiled introduction it bursts into brilliant life\, culminating in a headlong fugal finale of near-perpetual motion that drives the music to a thrilling close. \nAbout the Ensemble\nThe Barbican Quartet is a distinctive presence on the international chamber-music scene\, renowned for its unique sound and deeply personal interpretations of repertoire spanning four centuries. Formed in 2014 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London\, the quartet won First Prize and several special awards at the 2022 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Previous successes include prizes at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in 2022 and the Joseph Joachim International Chamber Music Competition in 2019. Their debut album\, Manifesto on Love\, was released in 2024. \nWhy You Shouldn’t Miss This\n\nThis is chamber music of the highest order performed by one of the most exciting and internationally acclaimed young quartets. From Mozart’s poise to Beethoven’s daring\, by way of Zemlinsky’s heady late-Romantic world\, it is a programme that rewards the connoisseur and newcomer alike.
URL:https://nadsa.co.uk/event/barbican-quartet/
LOCATION:The Courtenay Centre\, Kingsteignton Road\, Newton Abbot\, Devon\, TQ12 2QA\, United Kingdom
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