STRINGS ATTACHED: Brighton and Hove Chamber Music Society
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The eighth Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 28 February 2019 at 12 noon at 9 Powis Square, Brighton BN1 3HH.
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27th January 2019 – Doric String Quartet – Programme notes by Chris Darwin
Josef Haydn (1732-1809) String Quartet in Bb Op 33 no 4 (1781)
Allegro moderato
Scherzo: Allegretto
Largo
Finale: Presto
Famous string quartets have a problem in daring to perform Continue reading 27th January 2019 – Doric String Quartet – Programme notes by Chris Darwin
Coffee Concert 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Strings Attached Review by Andrew Polmear
Performing the Bach Cello Suites is one of the most demanding things a cellist can do. The single stool on an otherwise empty stage looks more like the executioner’s block Continue reading Coffee Concert 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Strings Attached Review by Andrew Polmear
Coffee Concert 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Other reviews
The curtains are open and the stage, lit and ready, containing just a solitary black piano stool. An oddity in any other situation. Apiece of furniture left behind? Forlorn-looking? Or dignified? Is a piano about to join it?
Or have we come on the wrong day? Not a concert at all but Continue reading Coffee Concert 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Other reviews
Newsletter #33 December 2018
Welcome to our thirty third newsletter – designed to keep you informed about our activities, as well as other local chamber music events.
2018/19 COFFEE CONCERT SEASON CONTINUES
The concert by the Jacquin Trio on 18 November was, for many of us, a revelation. The combination of clarinet, viola and piano is not exactly Continue reading Newsletter #33 December 2018
9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Programme notes by Andrew Polmear and Chris Darwin
Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello
There are few works of classical music that inspire the awe that cellists feel for the Bach Suites. They start to play them within a year or two of taking up the instrument and, if hands and minds hold out, they are still working on the same pieces 60 years later.
We know very little of the background to the Suites. They were written in about 1720 when Bach was Continue reading 9th December 2018 – Philip Higham – Programme notes by Andrew Polmear and Chris Darwin