Concert Details
| Concert: | Concert with the Alberni String Quartet |
| Date: | Saturday 18 September |
| Time: | 8:00pm |
| Tickets: | £16 |
| U18 Tickets: | £8 |
| This concert is the second in a series of a 5-year project showcasing the development of the string quartet. This concert will feature works from the end of the classical era: Haydn’s quartet Opus 103, Beethoven’s Opus 135 and Schubert’s G Major. The Alberni String Quartet are doyens of the chamber music scene who have been at the centre of string quartet playing in the UK for the past three decades. They have been coming to Dillington every year, without interruption, for nearly 30 years. |
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Artiste Information
For more than a quarter of a century the Alberni String Quartet has maintained the highest standards of performance and is now established as one of the outstanding chamber music groups of our time. Based in Harlow, Essex where they became established in the 1960s as the town's "quartet in residence", by the mid-1970s they had become world renowned. Their debut in the Carnegie Hall was well received in the New York Times, and they received positive reviews of their recordings of Schumann's piano quintet, Schubert's string quintet and Brahms' string sextets.
As well as performing a wide range of the classical string quartet repertoire from Haydn and Mozart to Bartók and Benjamin Britten, they have performed new works written for them including Alan Rawsthorne's third string quartet written for the 1965 Harlow Music Festival, and Nicholas Maw's first string quartet.
Benjamin Britten coached them in his own first and second string quartets (they have recorded all three of his works in the genre), and entrusted the first British performances of Dmitri Shostakovich's ninth and tenth quartets (whose scores he had acquired from the composer) to them.
