Licht und Schatten – Light and Shadows

C Schumann (arr. Amy Tress) Three Romances Op. 22
Mozart String Quartet in C, K465 Dissonance
Schubert String Quintet in C, D956

Consone Quartet (SSEMK Artists-in-Residence)
Agata Daraškaitė violin
Hattie Haynes violin (guest artist)
Elitsa Bogdanova viola
George Ross cello
with Kate Bennett Wadsworth cello

'Licht und Schatten' features, as the main work, what would be Schubert’s final monumental chamber composition, the Quintet in C, D956. The first half of their programme features Clara Schumann's Three Romances Op. 22, arranged by Amy Tress, and Mozart's String Quartet in C, known as the ‘Dissonance’, so called because of its extraordinary opening section. The light of both the Schumann and later movements of one of Mozart's finest quartets, contrasts with the bleakness of the opening of the Mozart, and both alternate throughout Schubert’s masterpiece, who surely would have been aware of his own mortality as he wrote it, which came just two months later. The Consone Quartet are joined for this concert by cellist Kate Bennett Wadsworth.

‘Their interplay is absolutely immaculate’
‘Heavenly quality as finely woven cashmere’
‘An uncanny understanding of musical texture’
‘They perform like members of a family’ on Consone Quartet

‘Her sense of musical gesture and line . . . has the strength and grace of a wild animal. Her melodies soar, not like a rocket, but like an eagle, responding to every turn of harmony’ on Kate Bennett Wadsworth