Proms Chamber Music 7: 29.08.16 - Armida Quartet

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13:00 Monday 29 Aug 2016
Cadogan Hall

Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor
Sally Beamish: Merula perpetua (BBC co-commission: world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in C major

Armida Quartet
Lise Berthaud (viola)
David Saudubray (piano)

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Armida Quartet bring two friends and three composers to Cadogan Hall for the summer's seventh Proms Chamber Music concert.

Either side of a new work for viola and piano written for Lise Berthaud and David Saudubray by Sally Beamish are chamber works by Schubert and Mozart: the former's quartet movement combining sobriety and vivacity, and the latter's C major String Quintet - a work brimming with twists, interruptions and thrills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07qbnrd

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http://www.sallybeamish.com/cid/59-1/Sally_Beamish_Concerts.html

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Just a reminder. . .

[robk]

Tried to catch up on iPlayer, but the Mozart currently cuts off just after the start of the fourth movement. Hope it will be sorted out later.

[bluestateprommer]

This was a fine concert, with generally solid work from all the musicians involved. Maybe momentary slips of intonation from the first violinist of the Armida Quartet, but nothing too serious. LB and DS did very well with the Sally Beamish premiere, which may have run perhaps a bit long in places (and is a very different treatment of the birdsong from how Messiaen would have treated it, to be sure - the light bulb comparison went off suddenly). It was touching to hear SB mention that this work was in part a tribute to Peter Maxwell Davies, and she may have actually used some of his leftover manuscript paper on which to write her new work. The Mozart had a rich, mellow feel, perhaps too much so at times, but again, nothing to hinder enjoyment and the quality music-making. For the record, LB took the 2nd viola part. Petroc was generally in pretty good form, except for the momentary decade slip in the intro to the Mozart ("1760's" was clearly the wrong decade).