Archived Event

Dvorák and Smetana
Nash Ensemble
Date
Sun 05 Feb 2017, 11.30am
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
Availability

Artists

  • Nash Ensemble

    Programme

        • Sonatina in G major Op. 100
          (arranged by Jan Willem Nelleke arranged for flute and piano)

    Overview

    Two works from Dvořák’s fertile American period,the tuneful Sonatina originally written for violin andpiano and the String Quintet with two violas, createdduring the idyllic summer the composer spent inSpillville, Iowa, surround the heartfelt Piano Triothat Smetana wrote in memory of his musicallytalented infant daughter following her death fromscarlet fever.

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