Report of the Committee for 2019
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
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
The Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 13th February 2020 at 12 noon at 9 Powis Square, Brighton BN1 3HH.
The Maxwell Quartet opened their recital with a stunning performance of Haydn’s Quartet Op 74 No 1 in C. From the start the degree of interplay between the players was clear and their commitment to the music total. The rhythms were full of Continue reading Coffee Concert 8th December 2019 – Maxwell Quartet – Strings Attached Review by Guy Richardson
Maxwell Quartet debut at The Dome Coffee Concerts, at The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), Sussex University, Falmer, on Sunday, December 8, 2019 (11am). Colin Scobie, George Smith (violins), Elliott Perks (viola), Duncan Strachan (cello).
Haydn, Quartet in C major Op74 No1 (1793); Scottish Folk music, Maxwell’s own arrangements of song ‘The Boatman’, traditional jig ‘Da Full Rigged Ship’ and reel ‘The New Rigged Ship’; Joey Roukens (b 1982), Visions at Sea (2011); Schubert, Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ (1824).
Four beards, four black informal shirts and trousers, four pairs of light tan brogues matching the wood of four stringed Continue reading Coffee Concert 8th December 2019 – Maxwell Quartet – Other reviews
