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VILLIERS QUARTET WITH ALEXANDER McNAMEE (PIANO) AND EMILY CHAMBERS (DOUBLE BASS)
VILLIERS QUARTET WITH ALEXANDER McNAMEE (PIANO) AND EMILY CHAMBERS (DOUBLE BASS)
Thu 29 Oct, 18:45 - 21:30
St Hilda's College, Oxford
LATE SCHUBERT IV
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Rebecca Clarke: Poem (Adagio) for String Quartet (1926)
Haydn: String Quartet in Bb major, op. 76/iv, “Sunrise” (1797)
William Alwyn: String Quartet No. 9, “Romeo & Juliet” (1931)
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, “Trout” (1819) In this concert inaugurating the last part of the Villiers Quartet’s three-year Late Schubert series, the quartet are joined by two outstanding Oxford students, Alexander McNamee and Emily Chambers, for a rendition of Schubert’s well-loved ‘Trout’ Quintet. A similar sense of lyricism pervades the other pieces in the programme, in particular the wonderful Alwyn Ninth Quartet, inspired by the Romeo’s death scene in Act 5 Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo & Juliet” and which was first recorded by the Villiers Quartet in 2020. 18:45, Pre-concert talk: Dr Peter Copley
19:30, Concert
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Haydn: String Quartet in Bb major, op. 76/iv, “Sunrise” (1797)
William Alwyn: String Quartet No. 9, “Romeo & Juliet” (1931)
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, “Trout” (1819) In this concert inaugurating the last part of the Villiers Quartet’s three-year Late Schubert series, the quartet are joined by two outstanding Oxford students, Alexander McNamee and Emily Chambers, for a rendition of Schubert’s well-loved ‘Trout’ Quintet. A similar sense of lyricism pervades the other pieces in the programme, in particular the wonderful Alwyn Ninth Quartet, inspired by the Romeo’s death scene in Act 5 Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo & Juliet” and which was first recorded by the Villiers Quartet in 2020. 18:45, Pre-concert talk: Dr Peter Copley
19:30, Concert
£7 – £39
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St Hilda's College Cowley Place, Oxford, OX4 1DY, GB
