An award-winning string quartet are set to perform two famous classical masterworks in a Rickmansworth concert that will start Three Rivers Music Society (TRMS)’s autumn season.
The Maggini Quartet have been close allies of TRMS for several years now and are regarded as one of the country’s finest groups in their field.
Their recordings have seen them win the Gramophone Chamber Music Award of the Year and a Cannes Classical Award, as well as two Grammy nominations.
At this latest Rickmansworth concert, the quartet will be performing three pieces. One is the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s final chamber music work, the String Quartet in A flat Op.105.
This will be followed by a small composition, Ireland’s String Quartet No. 1, that so impressed Royal College of Music director Hubert Parry when it was written in 1897, he offered the composer, then 18-year-old John Ireland, a four-year scholarship at the school.
The finale of the night will be Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Minor Op.18 No.4 one of the famed musician’s earliest works.
The concert will take place on September 30, starting at 7.30pm, with a pre-concert talk at 7.15pm. It will be held at the Baptist Church on Rickmansworth’s High Street. Tickets cost £16 and include a programme and a refreshment. It is free entry for under 25s.
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