Concert at St Christopher’s Hospice
On Thursday the 4th of March, our string quartet was pleased to perform as part of the Dame Cicely Saunders Concert series held at St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham, South London. The concert hall at the venue seats approximately 70 audience members and provides an intimate atmosphere where performers and audience feel as if the [...]
Concert at St Michael at the North Gate – 20th July 09.
On Monday we returned to the church of St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford to give a lunchtime recital as part of their ‘Music on Mondays’ concert series.Free lunchtime concerts are found in many large cities, including London, Birmingham and Oxford and many shoppers or workers choose these havens of calm to pop [...]
Violent and Tormented!
Sunday was a busy day with a trip to MBJ studios in the morning to record some more samples from the string quartet repertoire on our playlist page. We opted to record some real wedding favourites such as Pachelbel’s Canon for String Quartet, the Bridal Chorus, Bridal March and a hymn! As usual, we kept [...]
Spohr, Gade and a huge Viola Cadenza!
Today we managed to play through seven complete works – two for string quartet, then as Louise (violinist) had to leave early, we tried out a further five for string trio. Firstly, it was a special moment to finally play the Spohr Quartet in G (Op. 82 no. 2) – having spent so many hours re-setting [...]
Spohr Quartet Opus 82. no. 2 – score finished!
Well after about 40 hours of painstaking work, I’ve finally finished re-setting the illegible but under-rated string quartet by Spohr (Op. 82. no. 2) using Sibelius software. The only previously available edition by Schlesinger has been out of print for a long time – and it contained lots of errors, wrong notes and mistakes in phrasing [...]
Bruch, Coleridge – Taylor, Spohr, D’Indy
This week we seized another opportunity to get together for a sociable day of chamber music and explore some more pieces for string quartet. Whereas last week I’d played the first violin parts and Louise had played second violin, we kept it interesting by swapping over today. Playing second violin in the quartet is a [...]
Spohr String Quartet in G (Op. 82 no. 2)
Occasionally, you take on a task which at first seems relatively straightforward, but unfolds to become quite an endurance test….. In our exploration of Spohr’s string quartets we have discovered some real gems. I’d put them in a bracket of well deserving but neglected works that really reward both listeners and players – they are creatively [...]
