30 Tuesday 19
November
Quatuor Diotima: Posadas 13
‘Great is your temptation, shadows, great is the temptation of time. Your music is charming and sad. As sounds of things you have wrapped my being, to reveal it in music of shadows’ THE TEMPTATION OF THE SHADOWS, (The Book of Delusions) by Emil Cioran
‘Diotima, who gain in maturity with each defining encounter, are outstanding: individual virtuosity..., an ensemble of magnificent homogeneity..., the detail is precise, the sound luxuriant’ Pierre Rigaudière, Diapason Produced by supported by Diaphonique and Goethe-Institut London
Tickets £15 (£13 concession; £11 online)
St Paul’s Hall 7.30pm Alberto Posadas Sombras: Elogio de las sombras (Praise of the shadows) Tránsito I La tentación de las sombras (The temptation of the shadows) Tránsito II Del reflejo de la sombra (Of the reflection of shadow) UK Premiere
Quatuor Diotima: YunPeng Zhao violin Guillaume Latour violin Franck Chevalier viola Pierre Morlet cello Sarah Maria Sun soprano Carl Rosman clarinet
Sarah Maria Sun © Brian Slater
Quatuor Diotima make their second appearance at 2013, this time joined by soloists Carl Rosman and Sarah Maria Sun to present the UK premiere of Spanish composer Alberto Posadas’ song cycle Sombras.