Four concerts by quartet

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32663, 20 July 1971, Page 10

Four concerts by quartet

Quintets by Mozart n and Brahms, with the 11 leading New Zealand s clarinettist, Frank Gurr, as soloist, are to be < featured by the Czech " Quartet of the Univer- j, sity of Canterbury on c Sunday, August 1, in the “ first of four public con- , certs to be given in the a next three months in the c University Hall. 1 The concerts are being j arranged by the university’s ( department of extension . studies and the School of * Music. The two works to be ’ offered in the first concert are j the Mozart Quintet in A i

major and the Brahms quintet in B minor. In the second concert, on September 12, the quartet will appear alone, to play quarters by Haydn, Hindemith, and Brahms; and in the third concert it will be joined by the University Chamber Orchestra, conducted by John Ritchie. This recital, on September 26, will feature an interesting and diverse selection: Handel's Concerto Grosso in A minor, Bach’s Viola Concerto in C Minor (with Jaroslav Karlovsky as soloist), Haydn’s Violin Concerto- in C Major (with Rudolf Kalup as soloist), and Hindemith’s “Funf Stucke.” For the final concert, on October 10, Maurice Till will join the quartet to perform piano quintets by Schumann and Dvorak.