What's on this week at the Martin Harris Centre.
21 Jan 2009
Quatuor Danel Concerts & Seminar and Songs by Carl Nielsen.
Thursday 22 January 2009
Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert
- Schubert Quartet no. 10, in E flat, D87 (op. 125 no. 1)
- Krzysztof Meyer Duet for Two Violins (first performance)
The first of a series of performances of Schubert’s early sunny quartets, this one composed at the age of 16, followed by the first performance of a duet by a senior Polish composer who befriended Shostakovich in the last years of his life and wrote one of the finest biographical studies of the Soviet master.
Venue: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Time: 1.10pm
Admission Price: Free
Thursday 22 January 2009
Quatuor Danel Seminar
On transcribing Josquin des Prez, with Professor David Fallows
The university’s David Fallows, one of the world’s finest scholars of early music, introduces his transcriptions of music by the finest composer of the late-medieval period.
Venue: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Time: 2.30pm
Admission Price: FREE
Thursday 29 January 2009
Songs by Carl Nielsen
Denmark's national composer wrote more than 200 songs, many of them in folk-popular style for singing at home or in music societies. Students and staff from the University and the RNCM combine to perform a selection of these national treasures in brand-new English translations.
Venue: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Time: 1.10pm
Admission Price: FREE
Friday 23 January 2009
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert
- Mozart Quartet in D minor, K421
- Josquin des Prez (transcribed David Fallows, first performances)
- Beethoven Quartet in A minor, op. 132
- Mozart’s ever-popular D minor, from the landmark succession of quartets dedicated to Haydn, followed by chansons from the 15th century.
The Danels then inaugurate their first Manchester cycle of late Beethoven quartets with the profound A minor, including the famous ‘Heiliger Dankgesang’.
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Venue: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Time: 7:30pm
Admission Price: £12 / £8 / £3