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Morgan Szymanski & Benyounes Quartet

Conway Hall Sunday Concerts

Part of the Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, Spring 2019 Season

Add to my Calendar 26-05-2019 18:30 26-05-2019 20:30 36 Morgan Szymanski & Benyounes Quartet Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski was highlighted as ‘one to watch’ by Gramophone magazine. For his second Conway Hall concert, he comes together with the Benyounes Quartet in a programme spanning more than two hundred years, including his own arrangements of Piazzolla and Puccini’s Cristantemi, composed in a single night in 1890, in response to the death of the Duke of Savoy. Zara Benyounes (violin)Emily Holland (violin)Sara Roberts (viola)Kim Vaughan (cello)Morgan Szymanski (guitar) There will also be a short audience question and answer session with the musicians after the performance. Pre-concert talk | Robert Hugill, 5:30pm in the Brockway RoomComposer, musicologist and blogger Robert Hugill introduces the evening's programm Conway Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England

Programme

Antonio Vivaldi – Lute Concerto in D major, RV 93
Niccolo Paganini – Cantabile for Violin and Guitar, MS 109
Giacomo Puccini – Crisantemi
Luigi Boccherini – Guitar Quintet in D major, G.448
Joaquín Turina – La Oración del torero, Op.34
Thierry Escaich – Scenes de Bal
Astor Piazzolla – Histoire du Tango

Performers

Morgan Szymanski – guitar

Benyounes Quartet

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Programme Note

Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski was highlighted as ‘one to watch’ by Gramophone magazine. For his second Conway Hall concert, he comes together with the Benyounes Quartet in a programme spanning more than two hundred years, including his own arrangements of Piazzolla and Puccini’s Cristantemi, composed in a single night in 1890, in response to the death of the Duke of Savoy.

Zara Benyounes (violin)
Emily Holland (violin)
Sara Roberts (viola)
Kim Vaughan (cello)
Morgan Szymanski (guitar)

There will also be a short audience question and answer session with the musicians after the performance.

Pre-concert talk | Robert Hugill, 5:30pm in the Brockway Room
Composer, musicologist and blogger Robert Hugill introduces the evening's programm

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