Date/Time
Friday 24 July 2020
7:30 pm
Categories Classical
Haydn Op.20 no 4 D major
Schumann quartet No 3 A major (no interval)
Lindsay Braga & Steve Banks: violins
Andrew Gillett: viola
Rebecca Allnatt: cello
Andrew Gillett: viola
Rebecca Allnatt: cello
Book in advance by email: boxoffice@ashburtonarts.org.uk
You’ll be sent info about how to pay (Choose £10, £8, £5 or £0) and on the day of the concert an email with the Zoom and Youtube links.
OUT OF ISOLATION
The Haldon Quartet is delighted to play a live concert (albeit socially distanced) of works by two composers who wrote music in the confines of isolation, proving how the imagination flies free even in this situation.
Haydn was stuck at remote Eisenstadt for long periods at a time, away from family and friends. Granted, he was well catered for by Count Esterhazy, but the psychological effect of distancing from normality was very real. Op 20 no 4, written at Eisenstadt, starts out rather subdued but soon opens out into inspired realms of both light and shade.
Schumann’s isolation was more of an internal struggle with quite severe mental problems, the reason for which has not been definitively ascertained. He was a dreamer conceiving new and unexpected ideas in music and had a lasting influence on later composers. His 3rd string quartet, written in as little as two weeks, is sometimes reflective, sometimes edgy, and in the last movement euphoric in a slightly manic way.