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Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Part of the Swaledale Festival

Part of the Swaledale Festival 2016

Add to my Calendar 06-06-2016 19:30 06-06-2016 21:30 36 Fitzwilliam String Quartet In celebration of Wensleydale resident David Blake’s 80th birthday, his 5th Quartet, commissioned by the Swaledale Festival in 2009, will be performed again here, alongside the first performance of violinist Marcus Barcham-Stevens’s Double on Purcell’s gorgeous Fantasia No.8. Beethoven’s momentous late masterpiece, with its original last movement, completes a feast of chamber music from this legendary quartet.  St Gregory's Church, Bedale DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Gregory's Church
North End
Bedale
North Yorkshire
DL8 1AF
England

Programme

Marcus Barcham Stevens – Double on Purcell’s Fantasia no.7 (first performance)
Ludwig van Beethoven – Grosse Fuge, Op.133
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in B flat major (with Grosse Fuge), Op.130
David Blake – String Quartet no.5

Performers

Fitzwilliam String Quartet

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Programme Note

In celebration of Wensleydale resident David Blake’s 80th birthday, his 5th Quartet, commissioned by the Swaledale Festival in 2009, will be performed again here, alongside the first performance of violinist Marcus Barcham-Stevens’s Double on Purcell’s gorgeous Fantasia No.8. Beethoven’s momentous late masterpiece, with its original last movement, completes a feast of chamber music from this legendary quartet.
 

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