Brodsky Quartet concert for Roseland Music Society includes pre-concert talk by BBC Proms presenter Rosamund Bartlett
On Friday May 9th, Roseland Music Society, with support from the Green Bottle Trust, will present a talk and concert at St Just in Roseland Church.
The Brodsky String Quartet have celebrated over 50 years of playing together, making them one of Britain's leading chamber ensembles. They will play Haydn, Debussy and Shostakovich.
A pre-concert talk will be given by Rosamund Bartlett at 5.30. She is an expert on Russian literature and on Shostakovich, has worked as a consultant to London orchestras and contributed to programmes on BBC Radio such as Opera on 3 and In Our Time. She says This exciting programme presents three quartets which are masterpieces of the genre. Dedicated to a King, a composer friend, and wife respectively, they were composed in widely differing time periods and circumstances, but all demonstrate abundant wild invention and virtuosic brilliance.
This is the most ambitious project for the 24/25 series which has already brought an award winning early music group from Switzerland, a larger ensemble of local players in the Cornish Sinfonia, ‘Jaclarabag’ a group of three of Cornwall’s leading stage musicians, a song recital by Alysia Hanshaw and Jay Carroll and the inspiring, London based, Duo Clio who also visited all the Primary schools on the Roseland to engage a new generation of concert goers. The series will conclude on June 20th when Julia Chaplina, winner of 7 international piano competitions, will perform.
A founder member of the Roseland Music Society which is in its 25th year recently remarked, ‘The Phoenix rising of Roseland Music Society is a Jewel that must be nurtured and supported.’ Just before Covid there was a real threat to its survival but since then a new committee has worked hard to revive it.
Tim Smithies, the present chairman says: A short time before Covid I heard that the Roseland Music Society was about to close down. My grandfather, George Parker, sang with the Radford sisters’ Falmouth Opera Group, rehearsing at St Anthony in Roseland and as a teenager I had played as part of the St Anthony Players in concerts at Gerrans and St Just churches which rehearsed in the same Music Studio. So I was quite invested in music on the Roseland and therefore stepped in to the breach.
I invited Gabriel Amherst to join the committee. Though from Devon, she had played in Cornwall Youth Orchestra when her father Nigel was its conductor. She also played in the St Anthony players, is a professional cellist and teacher and comes regularly to West Portholland.
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