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Monday 27th February 2023 @ 7.45pm
Quatuor Ébène
{hoto: Julien Mignot
Bach arr. Mozart: 5 Fugues from Das
Wohltemperierte Klavier
Dubugnon: Secular Suite (based on works by
J S Bach
Bartok: Quartet No 6
Free tickets for 8 - 25 year-olds!
New Town Concerts Society is delighted to announce membership of CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust which exists to encourage more young people to attend chamber music concerts. CAVATINA operates a Ticket Scheme under which young people can obtain free tickets for certain chamber music concerts. Up to 50 free tickets will be available free of charge for all New Town Concerts (except the piano recitals) for any young person aged 8 to 25 inclusive. Please encourage young people you know to discover the delights of chamber music. Tickets available via the Queen's Hall box office either in person or by phone (0131 668 2019).
The celebrated Quatuor Ebene return to Ne Town Concerts with a fascinating programme contrasting the different ways in which JS Bach's legacy of counterpoint has continued to play out in the work of composers over the centuries since his time. A typical foray by an ensemble at the height of its fame and powers that regularly takes a fresh look at the traditional world of the string quartet.
27th March 2023 @7.45pm
Steven Osborne
Photo: Ben Ealovega
Rachmaninov programme to celebrate150th anniversary of composer’s birth:
Piano Sonata No 1 in D minor Op 28
Selection of Preludes and Etudes Tableaux
Piano Sonata No2 in B Flat Minor Op36
Steven Osborne is renowned across the world for the breadth of the sympathy and engagement in his playing. He is an ideal celebrant of the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninov’s birth, which falls on the day after his Queen’s Hall recital.
“Osborne was a master of momentum and colour, a wielder of power and a sure navigator through huge landscapes, and his Rachmaninoff was both coherent and daringly free”. Washington Post