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Access There is full wheelchair access to The Venue and disabled toilet facilities are available. Wheelchair users and companions may obtain two tickets for the price of one – details from the Box Office on 0113 376 0318. Support dogs are welcome. Please let us know in advance of any special access requirements you may have. The Venue is equipped with an infra red audio system.
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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.
Tuesday 25 April, 7.30pm Beethoven
Join the Endellion String Quartet at the Venue this Spring/Summer for its popular annual residency. A very warm welcome to the new Endellion Spring Series for 2017. Both the Haydn quartets from the Op 54 set find the composer at his peak and we are delighted to re-visit these pieces which were on our first major recording. The two Mozart quartets also entered our repertoire at a very early stage and they have the warmth, elegance and purity of all Mozart’s mature composition. Beethoven is represented by one of his earliest and one of his latest quartets. Op 131 was his own most cherished quartet and generations of players and listeners have responded with equal fervour to the depth and richness of this truly incredible and inexhaustible work. Op 14, No 1 was originally the E major piano sonata, but Beethoven himself lavished much care on making this fascinating arrangement for string quartet. Sibelius’ quartet was composed around the time of the fourth symphony. Its very powerful evocation of Finnish landscape and frequent use of Karelian folk music give it both a unique sound world and an atmosphere and mood which could only be Sibelius.
Andrew Watkinson violin Ralph de Souza violin Garfield Jackson viola David Waterman cello 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)
Janácˇek is equally distinctive and his music is extremely dramatic. He was, after all, an opera writer above all, and his fascination with the speech rhythms of his native language together with his unique harmonic language, characterise all his music. Bartók’s fifth quartet is in turns wild, playful and warmly lyrical and its two slow movements are profoundly touching. We end the series with Schubert’s monumental quartet in G major, one of his very greatest works. In its emotional breadth and depth it is like a great and profound novel. In contrast, the Webern pieces, which only last a few minutes, are like the most carefully crafted aphorisms with a world of expression in every note and every silence. David Waterman Endellion String Quartet
Tuesday 16 May, 7.30pm
Tuesday 13 June, 7.30pm
Tuesday 11 July, 7.30pm
Quartet Op 18, No 4
Quartet Op 54, No 3
Haydn
Haydn
Mozart
Janácˇek
Webern
Bartók
Beethoven
Sibelius
Mozart
Mendelssohn
Schubert
Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) Quartet (Voces Intimae)
Five Movements for String Quartet Quartet K575
Beethoven
Quartet Op 131
Quartet Op 54, No 1 Quartet No 5 Quartet Op 44, No 1
Quartet K387 (Spring) Quartet Op 14, No 1 (arr for Quartet) Quartet No 15, D887