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The 1988 International Chamber Music Mozart, the king Season / ’ of composers, : ■' ' . J -;'-' features in most '♦ , \ in our * ?* Mozart Schubert’s friend Schwind wrote of it Ji IFseHes riPtiOn ' W Of the two Mozart works we hear in this "Schubert’s quartet has been performed.. . I ' X3F international subscription series, the more written m such a way that the tune remains in Jk Our October 13 ggfgjtk famous is his String Quartet in F, K 590. It was one s mind, as uath the songs, all feelmos and concert brings us EggllL W written in 1789, by a very unhappy Mozart. thoroudily expressive. It got much app ause A kA s j IndwhX C astiche MIMI. 1811 Plagued by illness, Mozart travelled to Berlin in the mmuet, which is extraordinarily F 1 ofFrands P C g|fO search of an appointment or at least a z W-Wn \ Xc W 5 1 Poulenc. PBS commissiom And in some respects he was Stravinsky successful. The cello-playing King Frederick . ' , . jSsX tk William II commissioned a set of six string ree P ,eces f° r String ■ JBS a Stravinsky, at the quartets. We hear one of these "Prussian” Quartet (1914) appears as a piquant contrast to ' t . ■ ' S. time he wrote quartets, K 590, on April 6. the classical offering of our 12 July concert. Each ' "Three Pieces for of the short pieces paints another mood and each String Quartet”. Beethoven calls for outstanding virtuosity from the four On 12 July, the famous Takacs Quartet players. z <' ' ’ will bring us Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Hivdn X sharp minor, Opus 131. This is Beethoven’s , , _ . _ . _ . - ® second last quartet and the one he considered the Haydn s String Quartet in B flat, which the / best. It was not commissioned and Thoyes Takacs Quartet willplay forus on 12 July _, has 4< - rf, ~ * stated” ... we must regard it as having originated been nicknamed The Sunrise , possibly because Wr Y.? solely as the result of inner compulsion, the lt beaunfullv expresses the feeling of growth and -T-L- i unconquerable need to create." expansion we experience as the sun comes up on y ~ tllllll?®’:’ a spring or summer morning. "The Sunrise” is ■>' H ,'2’7 I\'4. - Schubert one ofa set ofsix quartets dedicated to Count The Chilingirian Quartet will play us Erdody in 1797. The quartet ■* ; ’■ . / ',"\ { sA * Schubert’s A minor Quartet — one of his most Beethoven „ outstanding works. considered his i i v ° best will be 1 «||| ®J £ played by the Michael Tippett. ffS Takacs on July ; We hear his S «. f, String Quartet H Xa'at /S No. 4 on 6 April. .... 'a ar _ , , , - ' ’ / You can choose the subscription - 'YUf Beethoven played ' S' ® X? y 1" the viola and Lf / f style that suits you best // * / wring tiling O / i'W i M Annual Direct Debit — You i shows to * t -, w r II g enrol as a continuing Music sharp minor MlBt: / . Federation subscriber ana, a Quartet we hear until further notice, your /wVY’LVV vV’-' ' credit card will be ■" • iHfc t ' ie subscription cost JSH Xjshsv \ ' each season entitling // ’ ■ y° u to a permanently U | booked seat. You will H Bp ¥ make an approximatea’ saving of 5% / > a iTili eac b year over the normal season’s < W subscription. z? » ' 4 iSlk Booked Seats— " ■> /f - enjoy the same seat 0 ifeibiO The Takacs Schubert’s every subscription concert ‘ 1153 QuarutwiUbT in the 1988 season. ff ~ mature Haydn ’. chilingirian Flexi Seats — You receive a o Z ' Quartet. book entitling you to four Xk IBS' | concert seats during the 1988 ® subscription series. More than ►r* gyw . -Mfa. '. ' one seat can be used for one |-i p concert. Seat bookings for Flexi j H subscribers will open at the Z J -3, -q jfLal Town Hall Booking Office three f , , Om weeks prior to public bookings. • jjpffll Under 26 — You enjoy the O same seat for every subscription lOLli’bJ concert in the 1988 season. J jSL Takacs Quartet I bam JOI v 1 myflfe os 9- uartet Wa j esrablished in | Id S unrise); P Webero Six e n YOU DO NOT NEED STAMPS. Fill in application. Put in envelope and post without | K 1 W J 1975. They have toured extensively tn | AT Bagatelles, Op 9 (1913); s s to: MUSIC fe DERATI on, P.O. Box 3769, Christchurch. FREEPOST NO. 634 I RW J Europe, North America and almost q 1 Stravinsky Three Pieces; r r ib®! every Socialist country. 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