Welcome to our forty fourth newsletter – designed to keep you informed about our activities, as well as other chamber music events.
2019/20 COFFEE CONCERT SEASON CONTINUES
The fourth concert of the series was given on 26 January by the Heath Quartet. A review can be found on https://www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk under ‘Reviews’. It was a massive programme. Continue reading Newsletter #44 – February 2020
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) String Quartet in F Op 41 No 2 (1842)
Coming after his ‘Liederjahre’ of 1840 and the subsequent ‘Symphonic Year’ of 1841, 1842 was Schumann’s ‘Chamber Music Year’: three string quartets, a piano quartet and the particularly successful piano quintet. Such creativity may have been due to Schumann at last winning, in July 1840, the protracted legal case in which his ex-teacher Friedrich Wieck, attempted to forbid him from marrying Wieck’s daughter Clara. They were married on 12 September 1840, the day before Clara’s 21st birthday.. Continue reading 23rd February 2020 – Castalian Quartet – Programme notes by Chris Darwin
It’s three years since the Heath played at a Coffee Concert. Their essence remains the same but some details have changed: they stand to play, Christopher Murray, the cellist, has Continue reading Coffee Concert 26th January 2020 – Heath Quartet – Strings Attached Review by Andrew Polmear
If the viola is the string quartet’s bridesmaid, Continue reading Coffee Concert 26th January 2020 – Heath Quartet – Other reviews
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
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
