Lunchtime Concert Series | The Revolutionary Drawing Room



Lunchtime Concert Series from the Great Hall of Imperial College London
Hosted by the Blyth Centre for Music and Visual Arts
Streamed live on 22 October 2020
The Revolutionary Drawing Room
Annual Malcolm Haines Memorial Concert
Colin Lawson clarinet
Adrian Butterfield violin
Dominika Fehér violin
Rachel Stott viola
Ruth Alford cello
Abe Buckoke guest narrator
The Revolutionary Drawing Room is a flexible group performing repertoire of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the age of the great European revolutions. They use instruments of the period and aim to bring to audiences the sense of exploration in which composers and players of the time were engaged. Rachel Stott’s ‘Euphonia’ takes its name from a story in Berlioz’s Evenings in the Orchestra, which describes a German city in the year 2344, devoted exclusively to music. Composed during lockdown in spring 2020, ‘Euphonia’ imagines four musicians from this city escaping in a hot air balloon to seek their fortune in London. Reicha’s Clarinet Quintet, a rarely heard gem, demonstrates a winning Classical sensibility and a keen melodic imagination worthy of his most prominent contemporaries.
PROGRAMME
Rachel Stott (b.1968)
String Quartet No 4 ‘Euphonia’ (London premiere)
Commissioned by Teesside Music Society with generous support from RVW Trust
Anton Reicha (1770-1836)
Clarinet Quintet in Bb major Op 89
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Menuetto: Allegro
IV. Finale: Allegretto
Live Notes is presented by Dr Emily Worthington (University of Huddersfield)
www.boxwoodandbrass.co.uk ‘Beethoven Transformed vol.2’ is out on Resonus Classics on 30 October 2020
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