The Minories, 28 Mar 2025
Roman River spring series
The Bloomsbury Players return to Roman River's Spring Concerts with a programme showcasing Dvořák's double bass quintet, performed on gut strings and in its original 5-movement version (including the extraordinary Intermezzo).
They pair this with Rossini's first Sonata a quattro, composed when he was just twelve years old, and Fanny Mendelssohn's rhapsodic and poignant String Quartet in E-flat - her only mature work for that ensemble.
PROGRAMME
Gioachino Rossini Sonata a quattro No. 1 in G major (1804/26)
Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-flat major (1834)
(Interval)
Antonín Dvořák String Quartet in G major, op.77 (1875) - including Dvořák's famous Intermezzo
Duration: approx. 1 hr 45 mins (including a 20-minute interval)
Sijie Chen and Will McGahon violin | Hannah Shaw viola | Orlando Jopling cello | Alexander Jones double bass
The doors will open at 6.30pm and drinks will be available beforehand.
Arts charity and Colchester's oldest gallery, in a historic townhouse in central Colchester.
74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE
01206 582 067 / info@theminories.org