Divertimento Concert – Sunday October 16th at 3.00pm

Divertimento Concert

The next Divertimento String Quartet Concert in the Village Hall takes place on Sunday October16th at 3.00pm. The programme has 3 works:

Boccherini (1743-1805)             Quartet Op 2. No.1 in C minor.

Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)    Five Pieces 1923/4.

Beethoven (1770-1827)            Quartet No.9.  Op.59. No.3 in C minor (known as the 3rd Razumovsky Quartet).

Andrew, the Divertimento Viola player,  has contributed the following:

What’s in a dedication? A huge amount, certainly in the case of the pieces we are performing.   Luigi Boccherini’s Quartet is dedicated to  ”all true music lovers and connoisseurs of music”.  Erwin Schulhoff dedicated his 5 Pieces to the French composer Darius Milhaud and Beethoven’s work is the 3rd of 3 Quartets dedicated to the Russian patron Count Razumovsky.   All three pieces are centered around the crucial note C starting in dramatic C minor in Boccherini,  through a fascinating kaleidoscope of the Schulhoff treatment  and finishing with the brilliance of Beethoven’s C major finale.

I am sure we will, as usual, be treated to a wonderful and varied concert of familiar and unfamiliar music performed by this superb quartet.

Tickets, as usual, available in the Dairy or On the door:   Adults £15 (plus a kindly optional donation to help cover our rising costs if you would like to give us further support)  and students/children Free.

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Will Carnell T: 01647 277 270