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DEATH AND
THE MAIDEN |
String
Quartet No. 14, D 810 |
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FRIDAY
25th March 2011 at
7:00pm |
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Featuring :The Boys and Men of All Saints
and the Tyburn |
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On Friday 25 March we keep the season of Lent and mark the
Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary with a
concert of music by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) combining both
themes – Death and the Maiden.
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An enormously prolific composer despite his tragically short
life, Schubert wrote over six hundred songs, nine symphonies,
five masses, and numerous piano compositions. Only about
twenty-five percent of his compositions had been published at
the time of his death, but musicians and audiences
nevertheless
recognized that Schubert was a remarkable talent. As the poet
Franz Grillparzer wrote on the inscription of Schubert’s
grave, “The art of music has here entombed a rich treasure but
even fairer hopes.”
In the first half of the concert the twenty-four Boys and
sixteen Men of All Saints, accompanied by the
Tyburn Quartet
and organist Roger Palmer, will perform his lyrical and fiery
Mass in G D167, the impassioned and tortuous Stabat Mater D175
and the ever-popular setting of Ave Maria D839. The concert
concludes with his String Quartet No. 14 in
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D minor, known as Death and the Maiden; one of the pillars of
the chamber music repertoire. Composed in 1824, after the
composer suffered through a serious illness and realized that
he was dying, it is Schubert's testament to death. The quartet is named for the
theme of the second movement, which Schubert took from
a song he wrote in 1817 by the same title; but the theme of
death is palpable in all four movements of the quartet.
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All Saints is delighted to welcome the
Tyburn Quartet for this
concert, violinist Charlotte Skinner being well-known
to us as one of our regular collaborators at our orchestral
Masses, and as sometime leader of the County Youth Orchestra.
In 2010 the Tyburn Quartet was the recipient of the John Baker
Award at the RAM, and have become renowned for their
interpretation of the works of Schubert. They come to
us fresh from their February 2011 debut at St
Martin-in-the-Fields. This is the second in a series of
concerts given by the choir in 2011, the next being a feature
on the music of Jean |
Langlais (1907-1991)
on the 20th anniversary of his death, Sunday 8 May at 6:00pm,
including two of his Mass settings (Messe Solennelle and Missa
‘Dona nobis pacem’) and two of his most popular organ works
(Suite Médiévale and Three Characteristic Piece).
Tickets cost £10 with £7 concessions (UB40, Student Card,
Pensioners, which proof must be provided at the door) and are available for purchase by credit or debit
card on the website here. £5 tickets are available to members
of the Friends of All Saints’ Music; these can only be
purchased directly from the Music Department. Limited tickets
will be available on the night from “doors open” at 6:30pm.
The All Saints' Bistro will be open for refreshments during
the interval and the Church is wheelchair-accessible and has a
suite of modern lavatories. For more information please
contact the Music Department on
01604 623845
or e-mail
music@allsaintsnorthampton.co.uk
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