Have you booked for 24th September yet? Madeleine Mitchell and Richard Crabtree’s violin and viola recital.
If not, maybe now is the moment as Madeleine has just sent me the full programme.
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The programme:
- Judith Weir – Atlantic Drift – duo for 2 violins
- Boccherini – Allegro from duo for 2 violins op.5 in G
- Mozart – Adagio from duo for violin & viola
- Joseph Horovitz – Dybbuk Melody
- Bach – Cello suite No. 3 in C arranged for viola
- Wendy Hiscocks – Caprice
- Michael Berkeley – Notes on the loss of a friend: In Memoriam Nicholas Snowman
- Bartok – violin duos
- William Alwyn – intermezzo for violin and viola from the Sonata Concertata
Doors open at 6.30pm – concert at 7 and and buffet supper at 8.15 approx.
More on the viola….
I was looking for a picture of Richard and his viola for this post and Google images offered me his teaching site – Crabbers – and a series of pictures!
But what a fascinating site. I do not play the violin or the viola but I still found myself reading with interest about the importance of double stops:
‘Viola double stops are the single most important aspect of technique to achieve a healthy, strong, authoritative and balanced left hand. Double stopping is the ability to play two notes together effortlessly, which offers the string player an opportunity to harmonise a melody.’
And I did you know (I certainly didn’t) that ‘unlike the violin, the viola can dramatically vary in size and tonal quality. The smaller viola or ‘alto’ may sound brighter, whereas the larger viola or ‘tenor’ will usually sound darker in character’.
And that ‘…contemporary compositions make considerable demands on the violist which has seriously impacted on viola playing techniques….. Viola notes in the higher positions are now common place for the advanced violist. Notes for viola that were once considered unplayable are now playable, and in some cases performed with relative ease.’
So now I cannot wait to hear the man himself next Sunday.
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Upcoming concerts
22nd October – Highgate Society Sunday Lunchtime concerts.
The Ladies of the Salons Accompanied by Matt Redman, Patricia Hammond sings parlour songs from the 1830s to the 1930s.
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4th November – The baroque Spinet
Leading harpsichord player, Nathaniel Mander will be giving his new baroque spinet its very first London outing with us on November 4th.
Much more on Nathaniel and his spinet to come after our concert on the 24th.
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