Consone Quartet Music at Paxton Associate Ensemble with Francesca Gilbert, Viola & Alexander Rolton, Cello
In association with the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust ticket scheme
Gavin Bryars: String Sextet ‘The Bridges of Königsberg’ (Scottish première)
Richard
Strauss: Prelude to Capriccio, Op.85
Mozart: Grande Sestetto
Concertante (1808 arrangement of Sinfonia Concertante, K364)
The
addition of two players to the Consone Quartet’s line-up allows the
opportunity to luxuriate in the warm sound of string sextets from the
classical period to the present day. Gavin Bryars’s lyrical sextet refers
to a well-known and fiendish historic mathematical puzzle; in the words of
the composer, “my problem (was) how to manage the integration of two
players into the string quartet unit, in as many ways as possible, step by
step and with maximum diplomacy…”. Strauss’s unique string sextet opening
to an opera is a gloriously seductive movement and is followed by an
enchanting arrangement of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante.
Sponsor:
Wynne Harlen
Artist info: consonequartet.com
