Nash Ensemble - Assembly Rooms
Nash Ensemble
Sunday, 10 November
7:30pm – c.9:20pm
Nash Ensemble
Stephanie Gonley violin
Jonathan Stone violin
Lars Anders Tomter viola
Adrian Brendel cello
Graham Mitchell double bass
Richard Hosford clarinet
Ursula Leveaux bassoon
Richard Watkins horn
- Britten
3 Divertimenti for String Quartet
- Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major K 581
- Beethoven
Septet in E flat major Op 20
Described by the Sunday Times as “chamber music royalty”, and with a vast and varied repertoire, the Nash Ensemble has long been a firm Mozartfest favourite. Here the Nash will perform music from Benjamin Britten to Beethoven, with Mozart between. Britten’s 3 Divertimenti for String Quartet are three individual character pieces, effervescent, accessible and appealing. Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major K 581, Mozart’s only finished work for that instrument, needs no introduction, nor does clarinettist Richard Hosford. Tonight’s programme is completed by Beethoven’s Septet in E flat major Op 20 in which the youthful composer took up and extended the 18th century tradition of the divertimento in a work which became one of his most successful and enduringly popular.
Tickets: £40, £31, £21, £17
Box Office: 01225 463362
Event Code: MF4
Supported by Wessex Water
