Music for Two Violas

When:
March 11, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
2017-03-11T19:30:00+00:00
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Where:
Holywell Music Room
Holywell St
Oxford OX1 3SA
UK
Cost:
£10 / £7 concessions

Come and hear J.S.Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.6, the work which put the sound-world of two violas on the map. Discover the Russian performer-composers Vadim Borisovsky and Fyodor Druzhinin (who inspired many of Shostakovich’s chamber works) and the British performer-composer Lionel Tertis, three viola superstars whose virtuosity sparked many new compositions for the instrument.

This concert will introduce you to a wide range of works from an important chamber tradition, some familiar, others only recently unearthed, all of them innovative, energetic, and completely engaging. You are guaranteed a journey of discovery.

We look forward to seeing you there.

J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.6
E. Rubbra: Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn
Schubert-Tertis: Allegretto
G. Jacob: Sonatina
–INTERVAL–
Benda-Borisovsky: Sonata in D major
F. Druzhinin: Sinfonie a Due

Violas: Peter Mallinson & Matthias Wiesner
Piano: Evgenia Startseva