Important Information
This concert was live-streamed as part of the Wigmore Hall Spring Series. The video is no longer online but other concerts are available to watch in full here: Wigmore Hall Concert Video Library
Artists
- Chiaroscuro Quartet
- Date
- Thu 15 Apr 2021, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- Fantasia a 4 No. 7 in C minor Z738
- Fantasia a 4 No. 11 in G Z742
- Joseph Haydn1732-1809
- String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1
- Felix Mendelssohn1809-1847
- String Quartet in E flat Op. 12
Encore
- Joseph Haydn1732-1809
- The Joke 38:
- II. Scherzo: Allegro 38
Overview
Purcell’s fifteen Fantazias only survive as a manuscript which is in the British Museum. Purcell was only 21 when he wrote them in June 1680; the young composer did not even attempt to have them published – in fact, they were not published until 1927. Like Purcell, Mendelssohn was very young when he wrote his Op. 12 – he was still only 20, and this was his first published string quartet.