Britain's What's On Event Guide
Tring Chamber Music - Summer Season- 'Sunup Sundown'
Sunday 16th June , 7.30pm
Haydn String Quartet Op 76 No 4 (‘Sunrise’)
Villa-Lobos Suite for voice and violin
Puccini Crisantemi
Boccherini Duo for 2 violins Op 5
Respighi ‘Il Tramonto’ (The Sunset) for voice and strings
Katy Thomson soprano
Paul Barritt violin
Francesca Barritt violin
Matt Maguire viola
Joely Koos cello
Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ quartet opens with one of the most magical of arabesques, ascending as if to signal the wonder of first light. There follows a string quartet of the highest quality written by a genius who is largely responsible for the development of the medium. We welcome soprano Katy Thompson to our concerts with a rarely played but nevertheless distinctive work for voice and single violin by the 20th century master Villa-Lobos. It is an example of characteristic fun and is dripping with the modern folk idioms of his native Brazil. Italy features in the rest of this unusual programme. Puccini is famous for his operas but his chamber music appearances are rare indeed. In ‘Crisantemi’, the flowers themselves represent heroism, loyalty and mourning; this is quartet writing at its most sumptuous and impassioned. Boccherini was an Italian who spent most of his working life in Spain. His duos for 2 violins show charm and character in equal portions. Respighi’s setting of Shelley’s ‘The Sunset’ for soprano and quartet is ravishingly beautiful. Filled with many emotions and moods, the work at times resembles an opera in miniature.
Haydn String Quartet Op 76 No 4 (‘Sunrise’)
Villa-Lobos Suite for voice and violin
Puccini Crisantemi
Boccherini Duo for 2 violins Op 5
Respighi ‘Il Tramonto’ (The Sunset) for voice and strings
Katy Thomson soprano
Paul Barritt violin
Francesca Barritt violin
Matt Maguire viola
Joely Koos cello
Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ quartet opens with one of the most magical of arabesques, ascending as if to signal the wonder of first light. There follows a string quartet of the highest quality written by a genius who is largely responsible for the development of the medium. We welcome soprano Katy Thompson to our concerts with a rarely played but nevertheless distinctive work for voice and single violin by the 20th century master Villa-Lobos. It is an example of characteristic fun and is dripping with the modern folk idioms of his native Brazil. Italy features in the rest of this unusual programme. Puccini is famous for his operas but his chamber music appearances are rare indeed. In ‘Crisantemi’, the flowers themselves represent heroism, loyalty and mourning; this is quartet writing at its most sumptuous and impassioned. Boccherini was an Italian who spent most of his working life in Spain. His duos for 2 violins show charm and character in equal portions. Respighi’s setting of Shelley’s ‘The Sunset’ for soprano and quartet is ravishingly beautiful. Filled with many emotions and moods, the work at times resembles an opera in miniature.
Sunday 16th June 7.30pm
Tickets: £20 , under !8’s: £10
to secure your seats,
please email: jehorder@aol.com
Or
phone: 01442 822732
Bank details:
Sort Code: 30-98-97
Acc. No: 85835260
Cheque payments to: ’Tring Chamber Music’
and post to:
TCM
1 Pendley Bridge Cottages
Tring Station
Tring
Herts HP23 5QU
Tickets: £20 , under !8’s: £10
to secure your seats,
please email: jehorder@aol.com
Or
phone: 01442 822732
Bank details:
Sort Code: 30-98-97
Acc. No: 85835260
Cheque payments to: ’Tring Chamber Music’
and post to:
TCM
1 Pendley Bridge Cottages
Tring Station
Tring
Herts HP23 5QU
The Church of St John the Baptist, Aldbury, Hertfordshire HP23 5RW
Sun 16 June
Website:
www.tringchambermusic.co.uk