Stephen Hough piano; Heath Quartet

Performers

Stephen Hough

piano

Heath Quartet

Programme

Kirchner

Selected pieces

Schumann

String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3

Brahms

Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

About this concert

Bold strands of High Romanticism, rich in musical allusion and metaphor, connect the works of this engrossing programme. The third of Schumann’s Op. 41 string quartets recalls formal conventions from an earlier age and subverts them with imaginative twists and turns. When Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim heard the first version of Brahms’s Op. 34, conceived for string quintet, they recognised its significance but criticised its scoring. The revised version for piano quintet so delighted its dedicatee, Princess Anna of Hesse, that she presented Brahms with the two autograph scores of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor in return.

The Heath Quartet is a     Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

This concert is part of the Stephen Hough: Artist in Residence series.

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