Elgar Piano Quintet Fri 17 Feb: 7.30pm | Perth Concert Hall Faure Adès Elgar
Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor Piano Quintet Piano Quintet in A minor
Doric String Quartet Alasdair Beatson, piano Three masterworks for the combination of piano and string quartet. Elgar’s quintet is regarded as one of his very finest works. Fauré’s work bubbles with Gallic charm and Thomas Adès’s quintet is worthy of one of the world’s leading composers. A brilliant pianist himself Adès exploits the combination of piano and strings to the utmost.
Alasdair Beatson and the Doric Quartet Fri 17 – Sun 19 Feb Tickets & Information
£21.50; concessions £19.50 (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket); under 26s/students £5 Book all 3 concerts at the same time and pay £58.50; concessions £52.50 (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket) Concession price applies up until 6.30pm on day of concert, full price thereafter.
Fauré, Brahms, Elgar and the internationally renowned English composer Thomas Adès. Perth born Alasdair Beatson is one of
Scotland’s foremost musicians - in demand 4 Classical
Three great string quartets! Beethoven’s second Razumovsky quartet offers an epic musical journey. Mendelssohn’s mature F minor quartet is a rarely performed gem. Haydn’s string quartets contain limitless musical invention and variety and Opus 64 No 3 is no exception.
Brahms Piano Quintet Sun 19 Feb: 7.30pm | Perth Concert Hall
The Doric Quartet have risen over the last
few years to be one of Britain’s most exciting
Doric String Quartet Alasdair Beatson, piano
ensembles. The Doric Quartet and Alasdair
Alasdair Beatson has a particular love for the music of Schumann and his performances of his music are suffused with warmth. The programme opens with another beautiful quartet and ends with one of the greatest of all chamber works. Brahms’s F minor quintet is symphonic in scale, offering a feast of dark driving energy and passion.
some of the greatest composers through
music. In this weekend there are quintets by
Haydn String Quartet Op 64 No 3 in B flat Mendelssohn String Quartet Op 80 in F minor Beethoven String Quartet Op 59 No 2 in E minor ‘Razumovsky’
soloist and a chamber music partner.
both nationally and internationally as a
the centuries to write their most compelling
Sat 18 Feb: 7.30pm | St John’s Kirk
Mendelssohn String Quartet Op 12 in E flat Schumann Kinderszenen Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor
A thrilling musical weekend. The combination of piano with string quartet has inspired
Doric String Quartet
have a relationship going back several years and this weekend will offer real musical sparks.
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