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Booking opens 5 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 (Russia in Revolution) series. Requests for seat changes by existing subscribers will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis from 12–16 February and can be returned to the Box Office any time from 5 February. 19 February: New subscribers 26 February: General booking opens Subscription renewals may be made by phone, post, or in person. New subscriptions may also be booked online from 19 February.
Tuesdays 24 April, 15 May, 19 June, 10 July 2018
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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 A very warm welcome to the new Endellion Spring Series for 2018. Welcome to our new Spring season at the Venue, Leeds, which opens with one of Haydn’s groundbreaking quartets from Op 20, the set which can claim to begin the era of great quartets. From the other end of Haydn’s composing life we play his much-loved Sunrise Quartet, part of the Op 76 set, which was the final group of six.
American work in the genre and is both very attractive and highly expressive. The slow movement is the deservedly very famous ‘Barber Adagio’, better known these days in its orchestral arrangement. In this original form, the piece is perhaps even more personal and intimate.
Schubert, Brahms and Smetana represent Mozart’s Dissonance quartet was dedicated to the heart of the 19th century in our series. Haydn who praised it to the skies and was much Brahms destroyed (sadly) many of his quartet influenced by its harmonic daring. Beethoven, who compositions before he was finally satisfied and went to Vienna to study with Mozart but studied allowed three to be published, so what we have with Haydn instead, is represented here by three of is the pinnacle of his efforts in his own view. his most tremendous pieces including Op 132 with Smetana’s marvellously engaging autobiographical its spiritual prayer of thanksgiving and the Harp Bohemian quartet ranges from his delightful Quartet in what, for Beethoven, was always the forays into the dance hall, through the warmth of warm and lyrical key of E flat. his marriage, to the deafness that afflicted him towards the end of his life. We include three 20th century pieces. Michael Tippett’s second quartet vibrates with vitality The teeming variety of harmony, texture, colour, and imagination and reinterprets the rhythmic personality and expressive range of the string complexity and contrapuntal textures of quartet is part of its glory, and we hope we can Elizabethan madrigals, as well as sounding a capture some of that in this series. lament for approaching war in 1939. Debussy’s work brings his distinctly French colours and exquisite textures to the medium of the string David Waterman quartet. Samuel Barber’s quartet is an early Endellion String Quartet
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’ (The 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.
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 24 April, 7.30pm
Haydn
Quartet Op 20, No 3
Tippett Quartet No 2
Beethoven
Quartet Op 59, No 2 (Razumovsky)
Tuesday 15 May, 7.30pm
Haydn
Quartet Op 76, No 4 (Sunrise)
Barber Quartet
Brahms Quartet No 1
Tuesday 19 June, 7.30pm
Schubert Quartettsatz
Smetana
Quartet No 1 (From my Life)
Beethoven Quartet Op 132
Tuesday 10 July, 7.30pm
Mozart
Quartet K465 (Dissonance)
Debussy Quartet
Bee thoven
Quartet Op 74 (Harp)