NCEM York Early Music Festival 2020

Saturday 11 July
Event 28 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Venue NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
Tickets Reserved seating: £16 (£14 | *Under 35s £6)
CONSONE QUARTET
Agata Daraskaite, Magdalena Loth-Hill violins Elitsa Bogdanova viola George Ross cello
Beethoven String Quartet in G major, Op.18 No. 2
Beethoven String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No. 3
Aware, no doubt, of the shadow
cast by the string quartets of
Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven
did not attempt any of his own
until he was in his late 20s.
The Consone Quartet mark
the 250 th anniversary of
Beethoven’s birth with two
of those quartets, published
when the composer had
already begun to be aware of his
oncoming deafness, an affliction
which (he later wrote) ‘drove me
almost to despair; a little more and
I would have ended my life – it was
only my art that held me back’.
‘The textures were always clear and
voice-leading immaculate.’ The Strad
consonequartet.com
NCEM is honoured to showcase four exceptionally talented young ensembles within the 2020 Festival:
Prisma; La Vaghezza; L’Apothéose and Consone Quartet. All four groups have been selected to be part of the
prestigious EEEMERGING + programme funded by Creative Europe.
Prisma join us from Germany; La Vaghezza from Italy and L’Apothéose from Spain. Consone Quartet are based
in the UK and have recently been appointed BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
NCEM is dedicated to supporting emerging professionals in the field of early music - a pan-European art form.
If you would like to help us keep this invaluable work alive at this complicated time, please get in touch.
www.ncem.co.uk/eee
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