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July 19th – A change to the advertised programme

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Due to visa difficulties the New York based Zora String Quartet have been forced to cancel their UK tour which would have opened with the planned concert at The Assembly House on July 19th.

We are however very fortunate that the brilliant young Swiss pianist JEAN-SELIM ABDELMOULA has agreed to step in at short notice. Jean-Salim has already received many international piano prizes and is one of only two pianists selected by the András Schiff Performance Programme for Young Pianists at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. His programme will include Schubert’s Moments Musicaux as well as Beethoven: Sonata Op 110

All tickets purchased for the Zora String Quartet will of course still be valid and we are confident that you will be pleased with the replacement act, but if you do require a refund for any reason please don’t hesitate to get in touch – either by replying to this email or calling promoter – Iain Lowery on 07786940878.

How to book

If you have not yet booked tickets then you can do so online now at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jean-selim-abdelmoula-piano-tickets-39163241309

Alternatively, you can pay by cheque – made out to ‘Assembly House Classical’ and posted to ‘Assembly House Classical, 28 Leonards Street, Norwich, NR3 3BW‘ – Please include a note to say which of our forthcoming concerts you are booking for, together with a stamped addressed envelope OR your email address so we can get your tickets to you.

Tickets are £12 each.

Hope to see you on the 19th

February 15th – Alauda Quartet – Photos

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Thanks to the amazing Alauda Quartet for a fantastic concert last week.

Programme information

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Quartet No17 in B-flat major k458 “The Hunt”

(i) Allegro vivace assai

(ii) Menuetto and Trio; Moderato

(iii) Adagio

(iv) Allegro assai

This is the fourth in a group of six quartets, composed in 1784 when

Mozart was 28, which he dedicated to Joseph Haydn, the master of

the string quartet and the composer, more than any other who brought

the form to prominence. Mozart was obviously out to impress the old man.

The title The Hunt was not Mozart’s idea but acquired the nickname

shortly after it’s appearance – presumably because of it’s first movement

6/8 rhythm featuring strong upbeats between tonic and dominant chords

reminiscent of the physical limitations of the hunting horns of the period.

 

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975)

Quartet No 8 in C minor Op 110

(i) Largo (ii) Allegro molto (iii) Allegretto

(iv) Largo (v) Largo

Shostakovich wrote this quartet in the space of three days in July 1960

after two traumatic events in his life – the first was the early symptoms

of a debilitating muscular disease which would eventually lead to his

death – and the second his immense struggle with the communist party.

It is dedicated to The Victims of Fascism and War a title which his

daughter thinks was imposed upon him by the Russian authorities and

others think was a self dedication. Certainly the whole work prominently

features the DSCH motif – Shostakovich’s musical signature – which also

features in his Cello Concerto, 10th Symphony and many other works and

it also contains quotations from his other compositions from 1st & 5th

symphonies to his opera Lady Macbeth.