MOZART AND BRAHMS CLARINET QUINTETS

Endymion Quartet with Mark van de Wiel

When?

Sunday 29 January 2012, 15.00

Where?

PATS Studio One

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Admission price:

£12, £10 senior citizens, University staff, £6 students, concessions

Tickets:

Tickets are available from the University Box Office: T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk

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Mozart explored an unusually wide range of moods and textures, drawing enormous richness from his themes and the darker, yearning sonorities in the Brahams Quintet make a sublime contrast. Philip Venables' short prelude is a though-provoking, reverent exploration of the opening few bars of the Mozart.

Venables K (prelude to Mozart's Clarinet Quintet)
Mozart Clarinet Quintet A, K.581
Brahams Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115

"Braham's extraordinary Clarinet Quintet was performed after the interval, in an intense performance that rightly hovered between yearning and bitterness. The clarinettist, Mark van de Wiel, was immaculate in his negotiation of them thin line between suavity and strident anger on which the work depends." The Guardian (on a recent performance at Wigmore Hall)

For more information on the Endymion Ensemble, please visit their website.