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with Francesca Gilbert violaand Alexander Rolton cello
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, K.364)
The addition of two players to the Consone Quartet’s line-up allows an 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.
£26 (conc £16) Sponsor: Wynne Harlen
“Absolutely brilliant playing sent us out at the interval breathless but exhilarated!” Edinburgh Music Review
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Paxton House, TD15 1SZ Berwick on Tweed, United Kingdom, Paxton House, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1, United Kingdom,Berwick, Fife, United Kingdom, Berwick Upon Tweed
