Bicentenary of Lloyds of London
On Monday the 16th of May, the quartet were engaged to provide a very special kind of background music for a corporate function at Lloyds of London in Lime Street. The party was to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Lloyds and this specific event was associated with the maritime insurance divsion, with members of staff [...]
Friends of Torbay Music Weekend
On Sunday 21st November, we were invited to give a recital for the final evening of the 41st Friends of Torbay Music Weekend. The Friends of Torbay are a group of like minded music lovers who gather together every year at the Palace Hotel in Torquay to enjoy a series of lectures, discussions, recitals and [...]
Haydn, Bevan, Puccini and Spohr
On Monday, we spent 5 hours rehearsing for our forthcoming concert at the Friends of Torbay Music Weekend. As we are playing at the close of the weekend, on the Sunday evening, we wanted the programme to be somewhat celebratory and have chosen two lively quartets - Haydn String Quartet in D major Op. 20 [...]
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 [...]
Rehearsals for Concert at St. Christopher’s Hospice
At present, we are rehearsing for a concert on Thursday the 4th March at St. Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham. With a small concert hall seating 70 to 80 people, it will be an intimate recital, with the music available via intercom to anyone resident in the hospice to listen to if they would like to.
We [...]
