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Emerson String Quartet

TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2007
ASSEMBLY ROOMS 7.30pm
tickets available: click here for booking details

3 Fugues from the Well-tempered Clavier (E flat, C minor, E major)
The Art of Fugue: contrapuncti 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 18
String Quartet in C K.465 "Dissonance"
String Quartet in C Op.59 No.3 "Razumovsky"

Now celebrating their 30th anniversary season, the New York-based Emersons are lauded world-wide for their extreme technical mastery and insightful performances of both classical and contemporary music. Their programme contains two of the greatest works in the classical quartet repertoire - the last in the set of Mozart's 'Haydn' Quartets, owing its nickname to the daring slow introduction filled with startling cross-relations, and the third and most extrovert of the quartets Beethoven wrote for Count Razumovsky, Russian ambassador to Vienna, in 1806. It begins, however, with an exploration of the music of Bach translated into string-quartet form. Mozart was a devotee of Bach's music - his pupil Thomas Attwood said that The Well-tempered Clavier had a permanent place beside his piano - and in 1782 he transcribed five fugues from Book 2 of which these are the first three. Bach's last major work, The Art of Fugue, shows the development of fugal technique taken to the ultimate; a series of fugues of increasing complexity based on a single subject. Tonight the Emersons give us three of the early ones and one of the last; all of them examples of what one of Bach's friends called his ability to "combine an agreeable and flowing melody with the richest harmonies".