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West Meon Music Festival

Opening Concert

Part of the 15th West Meon Music Festival - 2025

Add to my Calendar 11-09-2025 19:30 11-09-2025 21:30 36 West Meon Music Festival This year’s Festival celebrates three anniversaries:the 250th of Jane Austen, 150th of Maurice Ravel and the 50th anniversary of the death of Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich was one of the most remarkable and  popular composers of the 20th century.Written in 1943, his second piano trio was areflection on the horrors of World War II and is a supremely moving work, full of the drama and wealth of musical ideas we associate with his music. He formed a deep friendship with Benjamin Britten whose beautiful “Lachrymae” for viola complements the piano trio in this programme. The Primrose Piano Quartet opens the Festival with Mozart's Piano Quartet in E flat major.  Ticket price includes a glass of wine or soft drink, served in the interval.  St John the Evangelist Church, West Meon DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John the Evangelist Church
Church Lane
West Meon
Hampshire
GU32 1LF
England

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K.493
Dmitry Shostakovich – Piano Trio no.2 in E minor, Op.67
Benjamin Britten – Lachrymae for Viola & Piano, Op.48

Performers

Susanne Stanzeleit – violin
Dorothea Vogel – viola
Andrew Fuller – cello
John Thwaites – piano

Primrose Piano Quartet

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Programme Note

This year’s Festival celebrates three anniversaries:
the 250th of Jane Austen, 150th of Maurice Ravel and the 50th anniversary of the death of Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich was one of the most remarkable and  popular composers of the 20th century.
Written in 1943, his second piano trio was a
reflection on the horrors of World War II and is a supremely moving work, full of the drama and wealth of musical ideas we associate with his music. He formed a deep friendship with Benjamin Britten whose beautiful “Lachrymae” for viola complements the piano trio in this programme.

The Primrose Piano Quartet opens the Festival with Mozart's Piano Quartet in E flat major. 

Ticket price includes a glass of wine or soft drink, served in the interval. 

The Primrose Piano Quartet

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