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2014-09-12 20:13:55
Music from across the world will take centre stage in Sarratt, as the village hosts its annual festival of music. The eagerly anticipated event will feature a host of different performances from acts including the wonderful, award-winning Vertavo String Quartet, who are travelling from Norway to play.
2013-06-11 20:09:14
Aldeburgh festivalAldeburgh parish church, where Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears are buried, was the setting for this recital by the Vertavo String Quartet. This Norwegian ensemble, with the English violinist Annabelle Meare in its lineup, brought a further Scandinavian inflection with the performance of the Fourth Quartet by the Danish composer Poul Ruders, one of the anniversary commissions jointly funded by the Britten-Pears Foundation and the Royal Philharmonic Society, first aired by the Vertavo in London in March.Ruders described his opening as a portal to the rest of the work, and its alternating jagged stabs and quiet questioning pauses are recurring elements in the sequence of five movements. While the hurtling pell-mell of both Scherzo and Presto provided a wild, often frenetic, counterbalance, it was the essentially searching nature of Ruders' central Adagio sognante and the final Adagio that imprinted itself on the ear. In these, the depiction of a liminal […]
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