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Newsletter #43    January 2020

Welcome to our forty third newsletter – designed to keep you informed about our activities, as well as other chamber music events.

2019/20 COFFEE CONCERT SEASON CONTINUES

The third concert of the series was given on 8 December by the Maxwell Quartet. Reviews can be found on https://www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk under ‘Reviews’. Reviewers were hugely impressed.

The next concert will be on 26 January at 11am at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Falmer, given by the Heath Quartet. Continue reading Newsletter #43    January 2020

Report of the Committee for 2019

Report of the Committee for 2019Print/PDF

This annual report summarises Strings Attached activity during 2019, and includes the Coffee Concert Season 2018/9.

We’ve had another successful season of Coffee Concerts, the eighth provided by Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival.

During the 2018/19 we heard performances from Coffee Concert favourite quartets the Castalian and Doric, and also heard the young and impressive Continue reading Report of the Committee for 2019

26th January 2020 – Heath Quartet – Programme notes by Chris Darwin

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1826) String Quartet Op.18 No.3 in D (1799)

Allegro
Andante con moto
Allegro – Minore
Presto

Beethoven was in his late 20s and living in Vienna when he wrote his six Op 18 string quartets. Uneducated (“I do everything badly except compose”), rough-mannered, but with an alluringly Continue reading 26th January 2020 – Heath Quartet – Programme notes by Chris Darwin