Sadie Harrison – Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013

Return from Lysøen– 25/10/12

Robin Holloway – String Trio 2014

Nicola LeFanu – Songs without words (cl + string trio) 2005

Tristan Murail – Les Ruines Circulaire (cl + vln) 2006

Sadie Harrison – Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013

Elizabeth Maconchy – Clarinet Quintet 1963

– I N T E R V A L –

Sadie Harrison   – Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 – Mint Tea in an Empty Medina

Elizabeth Maconchy – String quartet no. 3 1938

Sadie Harrison – Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 – It rubs off

Salvatore Sciarrino – Let me die before I wake (solo cl) 1947

Nicola LeFanu – Invisible Places (cl quintet) 1986

‘At some point,’ says author Eric Weiner, speaking on the 1972 book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, ‘you realize that Calvino is not talking about cities at all, not in the way we normally think of the word. Calvino’s cities—like all cities, really—are constructed not of steel and concrete but of ideas. Each city represents a thought experiment.’ This programme celebrates Nicola LeFanu’s 70^th birthday with music inspired by her own Calvino-work Invisible Places and ‘thought experiments’ from 20^th and 21^st century composers, each taking the listener into worlds where fantasy expresses reality or, like Calvino, where discontinuous ideas make up a continuous narrative. The programme includes repertoire by LeFanu’s mother Elizabeth Maconchy and her former pupil Sadie Harrison. Harrison’s exquisite instrumental miniatures (Gallery Room 1 for solo violin) can be placed in any structural order, some of them mirroring ancient worlds and natural phenomena and others taking their starting point in the paintings of Brian Graham and Peter Sheppard Skærved, expressing visual and textural ideas in sound.

Sadie Harrison                                      Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 (2’)

Robin Holloway                                    String Trio 2014 (7′)

Nicola LeFanu                                       Songs without words (cl + string trio) 2014 (9’)

Sadie Harrison                                      Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 (2’)

Tristan Murail                                       Les Ruines Circulaire (cl + vln) 2006 (6’)

Elizabeth Maconchy                             Clarinet Quintet 1963 (13′)

– I N T E R V A L –

Sadie Harrison                                    Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 (2’)

Elizabeth Maconchy                          String quartet no. 3 1958 (13’)

Sadie Harrison                                   Gallery Room 1 for solo violin 2013 (2’)

Salvatore Sciarrino                            Let me die before I wake (solo cl) 1947 (9’)

Nicola LeFanu                                    Invisible Places (cl quintet) 1986 (18′)

Our family friendly production returns to Cambridge for one show only.

The Music Box is a story of two men: Maelzel the greedy inventor and Beethoven the famous composer. It is also the story of magical musical inventions and a beautiful clockwork Ballerina. Through music, narration, puppetry and images in a theatre box, we create a world of wonder and curiosity where our young audiences experience compositions by monumental composers arranged for string quartet and toy piano.

Written, produced and narrated by Kate Romano
Performed by Goldfield Ensemble
Repertoire includes extracts from
Beethoven String Quartet no 1 op 18
Beethoven 9th Symphony (arranged for string quartet)
Beethoven: Quasi una fantasia arranged for Toy Piano and string quartet
Delibes: Waltz from Coppelia (arranged for string quartet)
Haydn: Trumpet concerto 3rd mvt (arranged for string quartet and kazoo)
Beethoven: Wellington Victory

PROGRAMME

Herbert Howells                    Rhapsodic Quintet op 31                                1919 

Carl Maria von Weber        Clarinet Quintet in Bb op 34                           1815

• Interval –

 Alexander Borodin            Nocturne from String Quartet no 2                1881

W A Mozart                            Clarinet Quintet K. 581                                   1789