Concert 5 Saturday 27th February 2027
Jenny Sacha -violinChris Windass - violin
Rose Redgrave - viola
Jane Fenton - cello
The concert is at 7:30pm on Saturday 27th February 2027. Tickets can be bought on-line here or on the door.
Programme:
| Beethoven | String Quartet No. 2 in G major Op. 18, No. 2 |
| Various | Danish String Quartet Arrangements |
| Interval | |
| Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn | String Quartet in E flat major |
The final concert of our 60th season is given by the popular Adderbury Ensemble, who have played for us many times.
Adderbury perform a programme that is both traditional and less familiar. Beethoven string quartets need no introduction, with the second actually being his third quartet. The Danish String Quartet Arrangements are folk based pieces taken from northern traditional music and arranged by the celebrated Danish String Quartet.
Our last piece is by Fanny Mendelssohn. Her sole quartet was not published until 1988, more than twenty years after the founding of Amersham Concert Club! The piece was written in 1834 and performed only once, in private. It is believed it was not published because her brother Felix disapproved strongly of it, which is surprising given its expressive and rhapsodic quality.
The Adderbury Ensemble brings together some of the UK’s top musicians to perform the world’s finest chamber music. Formed in 1986 by a group of the UK’s finest young freelance musicians, the Adderbury Ensemble have always had a flexible line-up, mixing and matching different players to deliver performances primarily as quartets, quintets or small chamber groups and occasionally adding further instruments to play symphonies and concertos by the likes of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn or Brahms – with or without a conductor.
Everyone who performs as part of the Adderbury Ensemble is an eminent instrumentalist, usually a principal player with one or more of the leading orchestras of Europe. From their early years playing Sunday evening concerts in the beautiful village of Adderbury in north Oxfordshire, the group have gone on to develop a global reputation. They perform regularly throughout Britain and other European nations and played their first concerts in the United States in Spring 2016. They also helped found the world-famous Oxford Coffee Concerts at the Holywell Music Room, the oldest purpose-built music venue in Europe.
The Adderbury Ensemble have released ten recordings in their own right since their first CD was released in 1997, and individual members have recorded many more, either as soloists or as members of other groups.
