Archive for May, 2010
Tony’s Cello Journey
It’s always exciting to bring news of what various quartet members are doing individually and this week I wanted to write a little about Tony’s new album ‘Cello Journey’ which is currently flying off the shelves at HMV and other music outlets.
Although he’s a passionate chamber musician, Tony wanted to create an album of contemporary [...]
Adjudicating a string prize….
Yesterday, I did something that was completely new to me - I was asked to adjudicate a string competition at my old school. I remember vividly entering this same competition myself over 20 years ago and playing the ‘Praeludium’ from Bach’s E major Partita - and I think I won a book token!
Interestingly, I started [...]
A Night at the Movies….
On Friday, we gave our much anticipated concert at St Giles Church, Cheddington - entitled ‘A Night At The Movies’ featuring popular classics featured in films. As usual, we spent the whole day rehearsing hard, with two hours of music to perfect for the evening. The rest of the group arrived around 11am and we [...]
String Quartet no. 24 by Louis Spohr, Op. 82 no. 2
Last week we finally got round to making a film of one of our favourite string quartets - the first movement (Allegro) of the G major string quartet by Spohr (which I had spent many hours re-setting so that it was legible to read at speed and free from errors).
The film was taken in the [...]
Concert at St Mary’s Eaton Bray - 5th June 2010
It’s now only about a month to go before our concert in St Mary’s Church, Eaton Bray. As this is the first time we’ll have played in the village, we are keeping the concert program very light and popular to hopefully appeal to a wide audience, including those who might not normally go to a [...]
