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Following on from the tremendous success of the September Mozart series, C Major Quintet K.515 G minor Quintet K.516 Poul Ruders- Canto Pre-Concert Talk - Mutes and Arias, Summer and Winter, Major and Minor. Peter Sheppard Skærved, Philippa Mo-Violins Morgan Goff, Pedro Mereiles-Violas Ian Burdge-Cello Tickets: £10.00 Times: Pre-concert talk at 5.30pm and concert starts at 6pm Date: Sunday 23rd November Bookings: 020 7702 2789 or ONLINE CLICK HERE
Wilton’s presents two concerts focussing on Mozart’s extraordinary string
chamber music written from 1786-1788. This climaxes with his ‘Divertimento’ for
string trio, surely one of most exhilarating works ever written for any medium.
Each of these concerts also celebrates the work of the leading Danish composer,
Poul Ruders.
Following on from the tremendous success of the September Mozart series, Wilton’s presents two concerts focussing on Mozart’s extraordinary string chamber music written from 1786-1788. This climaxes with his ‘Divertimento’ for string trio, surely one of most exhilarating works ever written for any medium. Each of these concerts also celebrates the work of the leading Danish composer, Poul Ruders.
E flat Major Divertimento K. 563
D Major Quartet K.499 (1786)
Poul Ruders - Motet (UK Premiere)
Pre-Concert Talk - New wine in old bottles: Mozart breaks the mould.
The Kreutzer Quartet
Tickets: £10
Date: Sunday 30th November
Times: Pre-concert talk at 5.30pm and concert starts at 6pm.
Bookings: 020 7702 2789 or ONLINE CLICK HERE
The cumulative power of Bartok’s Duos has to be experienced ‘live’. These
works were conceived as teaching pieces, but offer a spectacular window on
Bartok’s love of the folk music of Central and
as well as the
Bela Bartok - 44 Violin Duos
David Matthews - 15 Fugues
Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski - Violins
Pre-Concert
Talk - Meet the Composer David Matthews in conversation with Peter Sheppard Skaerved
Tickets: £10
Date: Sunday 14th December
Time: Pre concert talk at 2.30pm, concert starts at 3pm
Bookings: 020 7702 2789 or CLICK HERE TO BOOK ONLINE
A unique pairing; Mendelssohn and Ligeti. Mendelssohn’s ‘Octet’ was completed when the composer was only sixteen years old. Like Ligeti’s mind-expanding 2nd
Quartet, it conjures seemingly innumerable configurations and
colours from the apparent restrictions of a string ensemble. This concert also
includes a rare performance of the canon which Mendelssohn wrote for Hans
Christian Andersen on the first occasion that they met, in 1840.
Mendelssohn - Octet for Strings, Canon for H.C. Andersen, Adagio (1823),Pieces for String Quartet
Ligeti - QuartetNo2,Cello Sonata
Kreutzer Quartet with Guests
Preconcert Talk - Mendelssohn, Andersen, Bach, Goethe
Tickets: £10.00
Times: Pre-concert talk at 5.30pm and concert starts at 6pm
Date: Sunday 23rd November
Bookings: 020 7702 2789
Mysteries and Fantasies for the New Year
To welcome in the New Year, colourful, mysterious, questing works from
the 17th and early 18th centuries. Telemann wrote two sets
of 'Fantasies', one for violin and
one for flute. Written a decade after his friend, J S Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, these represent a
watershed in the use of the solo violin. These works were comparatively
neglected until the 20th century, and was not the early 1990's when
Peter Sheppard Skærved released the first complete recording of this
extraordinary cycle. With these extraordinary pieces, the last of the Biber's 15
'Mystery Sonatas', dedicated to the Archbishop of Salzburg, and works by the
Bolognese, Vitali,span imitating
trumpets, organs, and earlier dance forms, one of which, although dating from
1666, is in five beats per bar! Together with these, equally powerful miniatures
by living composers, all referring to earlier musics.
Tickets: £10
Date: Sunday 4th January
Times: from 6pm to 8:30pm
Bookings: 020 7702 2789 or ONLINE CLICK HERE
Peter Sheppard Skærved
-Violin
Georg Philipp Telemann (1688-1767)
-12 Fantasies
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704)
-'Mystery Sonata XVI'-Passacaglia "Der Schutzengel als
Begleiter des Menschen" (The Guardian Angel, companion of
man)
Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692)
Partite sopra diverse
Sonate
Dmitri Smirnov (1948- )
span
-Amore Sola (after Leonardo da Vinci)
Jörg Widmann (1974- )
span
-Etude 1
Hans Werner Henze (1926- )
span
-Etude Philharmonique 'Il Vitalino
Radoppiato'
