Consone Quartet. Credit: Matthew Johnson


Sunday 21 July at 3.30pm (1 hr 45)
Tickets £26 (conc £16)
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Agata Daraškaitė & Magdalena Loth-Hill, Violin
Elitsa Bogdanova, Viola
George Ross, Cello

With Francesca Gilbert, Viola & 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, K364)

The addition of two players to the Consone Quartet’s line-up allows the 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.

“Pierce’s voice is delicious: clear, strong, supple, with sparkling top notes and a warm, textured middle and low register.” –BBC Music Magazine

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Consone Quartet
Francesca Gilbert
Alexander Rolton

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