Sacconi String Quartet - 7:30 pm, Saturday 29th October 2011
Known throughout the world for its energy, creativity and integrity of interpretation, the Sacconi Quartet continues to perform with its four founder members. The Quartet, which has local connections, performs regularly at London's major venues, and each May hosts the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival at Folkestone. In 2011 they are celebrating their tenth anniversary, and it will be treat to hear them in the Ship Theatre performing three fine quartets from three different centuries.
The concert will open with one of the two so-called "Lobkowitz" quartets, after the Count who commissioned them, written towards the end of Haydn's long and wonderful life. The second of Janacek's quartets is a fascinating work, inspired by the composer's friendship with a much younger woman.
Beethoven wrote three quartets for Count Rasumovsky. The last of these, which will be played by the Sacconi Quartet to conclude their programme, is the least Russian of the them - wonderful music from the composer's so-called "middle period".
- Haydn: Quartet No 66 in G, Op 77 No 1
- Janacek: Quartet No 2 ("Intimate Letters")
- Beethoven: Quartet No 9 in C, Op 59 No 3 ("Rasumovsky")
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