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Join the Endellion String Quartet at The Venue this Spring/Summer for its popular annual residency. Andrew Watkinson violin
Ralph de Souza violin
Garfield Jackson viola
David Waterman
cello
Formed in 1979, the Endellion String Quartet is renowned as one of the finest quartets in the world. Over the years, its schedule has included regular tours of North and South America and concerts in Australasia, the Far East, the Middle East, South Africa and every West European country. Everywhere, the Endellion String Quartet “sets the audience ablaze” (Daily Telegraph) and “captivates concertgoers with a remarkable rapport, playing to each other with a sense almost of discovery, communicating to the audience on a level of unusual intimacy” (Guardian). In Britain, the Endellion String Quartet has appeared at nearly all of the major series and festivals and is regularly broadcast on BBC radio and television. In 1996 the quartet was winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Best Chamber Ensemble. Its various recordings have been named Chamber Music Recording of the Year by both the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, Radio 3’s Critics’ Choice and Editor’s Choice at the Gramophone Awards. The Endellion String Quartet has been Quartet in Residence at Cambridge University since 1992 and has undertaken three short-term residencies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. Since 2001 it has been Associate Quartet of the Royal Northern College of Music and in 2003 began its Residency here at The Venue, Leeds.
A warm welcome to our Spring Series for 2013 at The Venue. The shape of all four of our programmes is simliar: we begin with a delightful Haydn quartet, but not one of the better-known ones. We end with a major masterpiece from the heart of the Classical period. And in the middle we sandwich a 20th century work from four of the towering geniuses of the last century, each utterly different from one another in language and temperament. Three of the four Haydns come from Op 50, a set which was dedicated to the cello-playing King of Prussia. As always, Haydn’s playfulness and imagination delight and move us equally. Britten’s second quartet is an extrovert and virtuosic piece in C major. Bartók’s first introduces us to the Hungarian musical language rooted in various folk styles but metamorphosed into a strong structure by Bartok who was so steeped in the Beethoven quartets and whose piano-playing was really wonderful. Shostakovich’s temperament is the darkest and he evokes the emotional landscape of war and terror, speaking to us directly and powerfully through his own Russian idiom, and Janáček also has a powerfully expressive and unique Czech voice – his operas are amongst the most performed at this time, and the quartets are equally popular. The two great Beethoven quartets and Schubert’s Death and The Maiden are frequent Desert Island Discs of quartet lovers, and we are very excited to present one of the great Mozart triumphs… his magnificent quintet in C, with our friend David Adams playing the second viola part. So another feast of many courses... we hope you enjoy it! David Waterman cellist, Endellion Quartet.
The Endellion is arguably the finest quartet in Britain, playing with poise, true intonation, excellent balance and a beautiful tone. In music of the Viennese Classical composers it has few challengers but it has won praise in a wide repertory, its Beethoven and Bartók cycles being especially admired. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2000)
Tuesday 30 April, 7.30pm
Haydn
Quartet Op 50, No 1
Britten
Quartet No 2
Beethoven
Quartet Op 74 (The Harp)
Tuesday 21 May, 7.30pm
Haydn
Quartet Op 50, No 2
Bartók
Quartet No 1
Beethoven
Quartet Op 127
Tuesday 25 June, 7.30pm
Haydn
Quartet Op 50, No 3
Shostakovich Quartet No 3
Mozart
Quintet No 3 (with special guest David Adams, viola)
Tuesday 16 July, 7.30pm
Haydn
Quartet Op 71, No 1
Janácˇek
Quartet No 1 (Kreuzer Sonata)
Schubert
Quartet No 14 (Death and the Maiden)