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A Viennese Quartet Party by The Revolutionary Drawing Room

String Quartets by Mozart, Haydn, Dittersdorf and Vanhal, presented with a lively script based on the Reminiscences of Michael Kelly

Add to my Calendar 09-04-2016 19:30 09-04-2016 21:30 36 A Viennese Quartet Party by The Revolutionary Drawing Room The RDR is a period instrument string quartet performing withdrawing-room repertoire from the age of the great European revolutions. This programme brings together great works by Mozart, Haydn, Dittersdorf and Vanhal, who all played quartets together in Vienna in 1784. Presented by Paul Turner, reading from the Reminscences of Michael Kelly, who was actually there! Swindon Arts Centre, Swindon DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Swindon Arts Centre
Devizes Road
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN1 4BJ
England

Programme

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – String Quartet no.6 in A major
Johann Baptist Vanhal – String Quartet in E flat major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet no.14 in G major, K.387
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet no.32 in C major 'The Bird', Op.33 no.3, Hob III:39

Performers

Revolutionary Drawing Room

Programme Note

The RDR is a period instrument string quartet performing withdrawing-room repertoire from the age of the great European revolutions. This programme brings together great works by Mozart, Haydn, Dittersdorf and Vanhal, who all played quartets together in Vienna in 1784. Presented by Paul Turner, reading from the Reminscences of Michael Kelly, who was actually there!

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