sacconi quartet SAMPLE PROGRAMMES 2020-21 String Quartet Repertoire Festival Programmes Haydn String Quartet in D min, Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’ These can be performed together as a concert or spread over the Panufnik String Quartet (Sacconi commission) course of a festival. Webern Langsamer Satz Roxanna Panufnik Schubert String Quartet in A min D. 804 ‘Rosamunde’ The Sacconi present a new disc of works and a new commission by acclaimed composer Roxanna Panufnik, with Roderick Williams OBE, Charles Purcell Fantasia No. 6 in F major Owen, Nicholas Daniel, Amy Harman and Mary Bevan: Purcell Chacony in G minor Purcell Fantasia No. 11 in G major Private Joe (Baritone & quartet) Cantator & Amanda (bassoon & quartet) Tippett String Quartet No. 2 Letters from Burma (oboe & quartet) Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Rasumovsky’ Second Home (piano, quartet, optional soprano) Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ New Commission (quartet) Grime String Quartet Hora Bessarabia (violin & double bass) Canto (viola) Rachmaninov Romance Due for release on Signum Records in 2021 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 12 Transatlantic Minimalism Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op. 18 No. 1 Graham Fitkin (piano) and Ruth Wall (harp). Judith Bingham New Work (written for Sacconi Quartet) Arvo Pärt Summa Schubert Death and the Maiden Cage Interlude 1 and Sonata 5 (arranged by Ruth Wall for prepared harp) Struggle and Oppression Menotti Cantilena and Scherzo for harp and string quartet Arvo Pärt Summa Fitkin Running and Breathing (solo piano) Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 Fitkin Servant Dove In Damascus for Tenor and String Quartet Fitkin String With Mark Padmore, James Gilchrist, or Robin Tritschler Fitkin Resistances (solo piano) Philip Glass String Quartet No. 2 ‘Company’ Sacconi Quartet and Freddy Kempf - Beethoven #250 Fitkin Recur Beethoven Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 90 Beethoven Quartet Op. 131 or Op. 132 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 arr. Lachner Alternative Programmes Sacconi Quartet and Freddy Kempf Beethoven in the Dark Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ From memory and in the dark. A truly sonic, immersive experience of a Robin Ashwell Hannah Dawson Ben Hancox Cara Berridge profound and deeply moving piece, with the near-darkness of the stage EITHER Rachmaninov Romance & Kapustin Piano Quintet viola violin violin cello OR Schumann Piano Quintet allowing a closer connection with Beethoven's world. HEARTFELT Collaborations Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 www.heartfelt.org.uk An immersive, personal performance combining robotics, lighting and music Brahms String Sextets (with Villiers Quartet) in a radical re-interpretation of this iconic Beethoven quartet. Nicola LeFanu String Quintet (with Tim Lowe, cello) The Juliet Letters Stephen Goss Theorbo Concerto (arr. for theorbo and string quartet) with Costello & Brodsky Quartet The Juliet Letters blind lutenist Matthew Wadsworth A revival of the rarely performed Juliet Letters, composed and toured by the Octets Shostakovich, Enescu and Mendelssohn Brodsky Quartet, with folk singer Jon Boden (ex-frontman of Bellowhead). Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert String Quintets Death’s Cabaret: A Love Story Piano Quintets (with Charles Owen) Dvořák, Brahms, Schumann, Elgar, A ground-breaking new kind of concerto - a cabaret concerto - Franck, Shostakovich, Dove commissioned for outstanding cellist, baritone and story-teller Matthew Clarinet Quintets Brahms, Mozart, Bliss, Weber, Glazunov, Bowen, Howells Sharp with the Sacconi Quartet from celebrated composer Stephen Baritone and String Quartet (with Roderick Williams OBE) Finzi By Footpath Deazley and award-winning writer Martin Riley. and Stile and John McCabe Silver Nocturnes String Sextets Strauss, Schoenberg Masterclasses Schubert Trout Quintet D. 667; Glinka: Grand Sextet in E flat major "An exceptional ensemble… a unanimous sense of Beethoven Septet in E flat major, Op. 20; Schubert: Octet in F, D. 803 musical breath and a meticulous attention to detail." The Sacconi Quartet offer a range of masterclasses, along with education and outreach work, as part of festival residencies Musical Opinion 20th anniversary tour! In the 2021-22 season, the Sacconi will celebrate their 20th anniversary (with their four founder members), with a worldwide tour of at least 20 concerts. guest composer: jonathan dove cbe The Sacconi are thrilled that renowned English composer Jonathan Dove CBE will be writing a new string quartet especially for their anniversary, to be premiered at Wigmore Hall. One of the most successful and consistently explored contemporary composers of the 21st Century, Jonathan Dove’s music delights audiences from around the world. The Sacconi have a special relationship with Jonathan; in 2017 they released a critically-acclaimed Dove album featuring his new cantata ‘In Damascus’. 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