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Elizabeth Bass Concert: sold out

We have now sold all the tickets for the Elizabeth Bass concert on 12th April. If you would like... more»

Only two tickets left for the Elizabeth Bass concert

As of this evening (11th March) there are only two tickets left for the Elizabeth Bass concert at... more»

Ernie Kay MBE 1 April 1931 – 4 January 2019

With the death of Ernie Kay, Malvern Concert Club has lost one of its most loyal supporters, one... more»

Tickets now on sale for trip to Birmingham Symphony Hall Concert 20th March 2019

Booking is now open for the trip to THSH on 20th March 2019. The programme for the concert... more»

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Malvern Concert Club

5 days ago

Our thanks go to Elizabeth Bass for her excellent recital yesterday morning. As well as her superbly expressive and sensitive playing of repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary, the audience also appreciated her spoken introduction to the instrument, the repertoire, the challenges facing the harpist. As with last year's recital, we were made very welcome by Anna Taylor and her excellent family team who provided us with delicious coffee and cakes before the recital. Once again, Elmslie House has proved an ideal venue for intimate chamber music. We look forward very much to returning there on 17th April next year. ... See MoreSee Less

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Malvern Concert Club

1 month ago

You can read Peter Johnson's review of the recital by the Wihan Quartet on 7th March here:

The Wihan Quartet, led by Leoš Čepickỷ, belongs to a distinguished line of Czech quartets, including the Talich and the Prazac, whose members are entirely Czech. Their tradition was perfectly illustrated by tonight’s encore, the finale of Dvořák’s American Quartet, in which an uninhibited joyfulness was achieved by fine discipline and a determination to avoid everything mechanical. Vivacity and discipline also characterized Haydn’s Quartet Op. 54 No.1, driven throughout by the intelligent and communicative playing of their cellist, Michal Kaňka. The third movement, with its five-bar phrases and dancing Trio section, felt authentically Bohemian.

Beethoven’s last quartet, Op. 135 in F major, was played in the more international later-20th style, with highly dramatized gestures at the start of the Finale and a very slow Lento Assai, as if it were notated in 3/4 or 3/2 rather than 6/8. But the Bohemian lilt was never far away, as in the opening dialogues of the first movement, or the closing variation of the Lento Assai, where the cellist’s subtly swaying rhythms created the perfect ground for the first violin’s beautifully caressed arabesques.

After the interval came Tchaikovsky’s huge 3rd Quartet, music that makes very different demands on its players: no bright, jolly rhythms here but a brooding intensity that requires concentrated, sustained tone and the power to give purpose to very long phrases – and in the dark key of E flat minor. A strong Slavic sympathy for this music was everywhere apparent, and at the technical level these musicians showed just how to sustain long phrases, to shape movements over periods of fifteen minutes and more, and especially how to sustain their audience’s attention, for there was never a dull moment. Overall this was a fine and memorable performance. Let’s hope the Wihan Quartet can visit us again, perhaps with some Janáček?

Professor Peter Johnson
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Malvern Concert Club

1 month ago

Thank you to the Wihan Quartet for their magnificant recital of Haydn, Beehoven and Tchaikovsky on Thursday 7th March. The quartet made a special journey to Malvern for this concert. The encore they played was the fourth movement of Dvořák's String Quartet No.12, Op. 96 "American". A recording by the Wihan Quartet is available from Nimbus. ... See MoreSee Less

Dvořák String Quartet Op. 61 and Op. 96 'American'

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<p>Following the success of the Beethoven String Quartet cycle, the Wihan Quartet returns with their new release of Dvorák’s String Quartets. The Wihan Quartet, formed in 1985, are heirs to the gre...

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