© Robert Piwko
© Robert Piwko
(Sun 15 Oct 2023 3.00pm Little Missenden Church)
Sara Trickey, Martyn Jackson violin Sarah-Jane Bradley, Matthew Jones viola Tim Lowe, Adrian Brendel cello
Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
Franz Schubert String Quintet in C major D956
Programme Notes (also available free at concert)
Nowadays perhaps better known in its orchestral version, Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) was originally composed for string sextet. Written in 1899, it was the composer’s first significant work and is probably still his most popular. It’s a wonderful example of a late-flowering Romanticism, based firmly on Brahms and Wagner – taking structure from the former and lush chromaticism from the latter. The end of a musical era in one sense but just the beginning of the composer’s own journey into a world of atonality and serialism.
Written only a few months before his death in 1828, Schubert’s C major Quintet remained unpublished for 25 years. With a second cello rather than the more usual extra viola, the work has a special richness of tone and is typical late-Schubert in its combination of the most sublime beauty and lyricism together with contrasting moments of dark and unsettling uncertainty. Schubert wrote a number of great chamber works but the C major Quintet can lay fair claim to being his greatest.
The Rossetti Ensemble was created in 2018 from long-standing collaborations between pianist John Lenehan, violinist Sara Trickey, violist Sarah-Jane Bradley and cellist Tim Lowe.
Named after Dante Gabriel, the eminent British poet and Pre-Raphaelite artist, the group is passionate about the repertoire of the era and the composers who derived inspiration from his work during the late Romantic period and early 20th Century. In addition to piano quartets the group is flexible, working with other high profile instrumentalists, producing imaginative, varied programmes.
Without the need for a piano in this programme, the Ensemble’s other core players are joined by regular collaborators in the form of an additional violin, viola and cello.
Concert sponsored by the Hedges Family in memory of their father and our former Chairman, Alan Hedges
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Sun 15 Oct 2023 3.00pm
Little Missenden Church
Online booking is managed by TicketSource. This event may be booked from the Tickets link on this page but, when booking for multiple events, it may be more convenient to use our Little Missenden Festival page on TicketSource.