Saturday 9th July 2011

chamber music masterpieces from the 18th to 20th centuries

Two varied programmes of music for string quartet played by the Quatuor Armoricain: Aisha Orazbayeva and Hun Ouk Park violins, Jordan Bergmans viola, Corentin Chassard cello

St Mary's  Thornham Parva 12 noon

Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)
Largo sostenuto (Ist movt. from the String Quartet No.2 Opus 32 in E minor)

Giacinto Scelsi (1905 – 1988)
Duo for violin and cello

Johan Halvorsen (1864  – 1935)
Passacaglia in G minor for violin and cello (after Handel's Keyboard Suite No.7)

Dimitri Shostakovich (1906 —1975)
String Quartet No.8, Opus 110 Largo, Allegro molto, Allegretto, Largo, Largo

St Mary Magdalene  Thornham Magna  6pm

Guillaume Lekeu (1870 - 1894)
String Quartet in G Major
Allegretto quasi allegro,  Adagio sostenuto,  Capriccio poco allegro, Romance: Andantino molto moderato quasi andante,  Poco allegro e molto scherzoso,  Allegro assai e appassionato

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor  D. 810 ‘Death and the Maiden’
Allegro,  Andante,  Scherzo,  Presto

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