HAYDN Andante with Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII/6
SCHUBERT Sonata in G major D.894
MOZART Rondo in A minor, K. 511
BEETHOVEN Sonata in A‐flat, Op. 110
This is our third attempt to have Martin Roscoe play this programme!
It includes four composers who really cemented Vienna’s reputation as the musical capital of the world. The works presented were all composed there within about forty truly golden years, during which what we now call the ‘classical’ period made the transition to early romanticism. Haydn and Mozart represent the former, while Beethoven’s creative output exemplifies the transition. By the time of Schubert’s final sonatas, Beethoven had only been dead for a year, and yet we are clearly in a different age.
Please note the change to the previously advertised programme
MOZART Piano Trio in E, K. 542
WEIR Piano Quartet
BRAHMS Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25
The Gould Trio last visited Portsmouth Chamber Music four years ago with clarinettist Robert Plane when they gave a spellbinding performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
This time they are joined by violist Gary Pomeroy from the Heath Quartet who played here in May 2013. Brahms’ G minor piano quartet is his most popular chamber work with its whirlwind Hungarian Dance finale. Judith Weir has become almost a household name over the last 20 years or so, being awarded a CBE in 2005, and succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as Master of the Queen’s Music in 2014.
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E‐flat, Op. 74, Harp
SCHULHOFF String Quartet No. 1
DVOŘÁK Quartet in G, Op. 106
Like Martin Roscoe, the Pražák Quartet was due to perform for us two seasons ago. Their only previous visit to Portsmouth was in the second season of these concerts, way back in January 2006 when concerts were in the Cathedral.
Erwin Schulhoff was born in Prague in 1894, and was strongly influenced by jazz idioms and rhythms, this quartet dating from 1924. Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ quartet needs little introduction, its nickname deriving from the harp‐like pizzicatos of the first movement. Dvořák’s penultimate quartet is his finest, with great energy in the outer movements, and a most sublime slow movement.
HOWELLS Rhapsodic Quintet
COLERIDGE‐TAYLOR Nonet in F minor, Op. 2
ELGAR Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84
An enterprising all‐British programme which features Elgar’s wonderful late piano quintet, composed at the same time as the Cello Concerto, and inhabiting some of the same mood.
Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor studied at the Royal College of Music where his composition teacher was Stanford, and one of his main musical influences was Dvořák. He had enormous success with the cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, but some of his finest works are actually his early chamber pieces. Howells was very influenced by Elgar who was 35 years his senior, and this piece for clarinet and strings shows the strong melodic impulse which is characteristic of his music.
Live from The Guildhall in Portsmouth
Unfortunately there were a few sound issues with this broadcast. We have made the edits which we can to improve this, though we are sorry it has not been possible to raise the quality further. Thank you for your understanding and apologies for any inconvenience.
BARTÓK String Quartet No.3 (16’)
SCHUBERT String Quartet No.13, D804 Rosamunde (34’)
Coming live from Music in the Round’s longstanding residency at The Guildhall in Portsmouth, the acclaimed Doric Quartet presents two contrasting, complementary works. The third of Bartók’s string quartets is a pacey tour-de-force: dense, complex and intricately patterned. Schubert’s Quartet No.13 begins with a wistful, lyrical song-like theme that develops from pervading melancholy into an uplifting melody with a gentle, optimistic finale.
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