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Sundays at Noon : National String Quartet Foundation present: SOLAS QUARTET

  • Concerts

Sunday 21 January 2024

Admission Free, Book in advance Book

Booking available HERE from 10.00 Monday January 15th 2024.

 

Admission to all Sunday at Noon concerts is free but ticketed.

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All concerts are broadcast on the gallery’s YouTube channel in a ‘Concert Catch-up’ at noon the following week, subject to agreement from the artists.

Matthew Locke – Curtain Tune from The Tempest [1674]
Katherine Hunka – Pass the Hat [2023]
arr. Marja Gaynor – Old Wedding March / Lord Mayo (trad)
Alexander Borodin – String Quartet No.2 in D major [1881]

For their third NSQF tour the Solas Quartet presents Borodin’s D major quartet, famous for its Nocturne featured in the 1953 musical Kismet. Their programme opens with Matthew Locke’s curtain raiser to a 1674 London production of The Tempest and features the first performances of a new quartet by Katherine Hunka, a theatrical look at power dynamics within a group. The quartet finish the concert with gorgeous arrangements of two Irish tunes by Marja Gaynor.

 

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