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🎫 Beethoven, Mozart & More: String Quartets, Marmen Quartet
🗓️ Mon 20 January, 7.30pm
📍 Portsmouth Guildhall
The Marmen Quartet has won a glittering array of international prizes; its musicians are rigorous and deeply humane performers. Charting hundreds of years string writing, their concert begins with Beethoven’s ‘Serioso’ String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, followed by the vivid folk-inspired motifs of the Third Quartet No. 11 in F minor, followed by the vivid folk-inspired motifs of the Third Quartet by Hungarian composer Belà Bartók.
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🎫 Birds & Bagatelles, Ensemble 360
🗓️ Weds 22 January, 7pm
📍 Sheffield TheatresCrucible Playhouse
This concert of playful music for wind quintet, performed by members of Ensemble 360, promises to transport you to an English meadow, the Danish countryside, and a sultry New York summer.
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🎫 SOUNDS OF NOW: Quartet for Heart & Breath, @phaedraensemble Lotte Betts-Dean
🗓️ Sat 25 January, 8pm
📍 Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Music by Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry opens this concert of sumptuous, 21st century compositions for string quartet, performed by Phaedra Ensemble with Lotte Betts-Dean, a vocalist praised by The Guardian for her “unmissable, urgent musicality”.
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