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Access There is full wheelchair access to The Venue and disabled toilet facilities. Wheelchair users and companions may obtain two tickets for the price of one – details from the Box Office on 0113 224 3801.
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In person or by post City Centre Box Office The Carriageworks, The Electric Press, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD The Box Office is open to personal callers from 10am – 6pm, Monday – Saturday. Cheques should be made payable to Leeds City Council. Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope if you would like your tickets to be sent to you.
Talk to us! If you have any questions or comments about Leeds International Concert Season, please call us on 0113 247 8336 or email us at music@leeds.gov.uk. For more information on the music and performers visit www. leedsconcertseason.com. Whilst every effort is made to avoid programme changes, we reserve the right to change artists and programmes without notice if unavoidable.
Booking dates 9 February: Priority booking period for existing subscribers to the Endellion String Quartet series. Please note that this is a separate subscription from the Evening Chamber (Notes from Norway) series. Requests for seat changes by existing subscribers will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis from 23 – 28 February and can be returned to the Box Office any time from 9 February. 2 March: New subscriptions and general booking opens.
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Spring/Summer 2015
The Venue
Leeds College of Music, Quarry Hill
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.
It gives us great pleasure to programme a complete cycle of all the Beethoven quartets in this year's series at The Venue. This was how we opened our residency here and we hope you agree it is time to revisit these programmes. To experience in one series all of Beethoven’s sixteen quartets – collectively, surely, one of the peaks of human endeavour – is to take a wonderful opportunity both to enter into each of these extraordinarily individual universes, and also to hear them in the context of one another. This enables us to appreciate the family resemblances between them, which make them all unmistakeably ‘Beethoven’ – reflecting his profound humanity, integrity, moral seriousness, humour, light-heartedness, love, forcefulness, energy and self-belief. It also highlights the myriad differences of character, mood, style and sound-world that make one marvel at the sheer range, fertility and freshness of Beethoven’s imagination. In arranging the programmes, our aim is to give each concert as much variety and balance as possible by choosing pieces of contrasting character, and from different periods.
Tuesday 14 April, 7.30pm Quartet Op 18, No 1 Quartet Op 59, No 3 (Razumovsky) Quartet Op 130 (with Beethoven’s alternative ending)
Tuesday 5 May, 7.30pm Quartet Op 18, No 6 Quartet Op 18, No 2 Quartet Op 132
Tuesday 2 June, 7.30pm Quartet Op 18, No 4 Quartet Op 74 Quartet Op 131
Tuesday 23 June, 7.30pm Quartet Op 18, No 5 Quartet Op 135 Quartet Op 59, No 2 (Razumovsky)
David Waterman
Tuesday 7 July, 7.30pm Quartet Op 18, No 3 Quartet Op 95 Quartet Op 127
Tuesday 28 July, 7.30pm
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)
Quartet Op 59, No 1 (Razumovsky) Quartet Op 130 (with Grosse Fugue)