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14.00 The Bridge Quartet & Maté Racz (violin)

0	LONDON: St Mellitus Church (info)
P	Saturday 13th October, 2012 (Sat 13th Oct, 2pm)
N	Door time: 2:00pm
.	Age restrictions are shown in the Event information and/or Ticket types
C	Music - Classical
>	https://www.ealingautumnfestival.co.uk

Event Information

Gillian Spragg (piano)

The Bridge Quartet
Colin Twigg & Catherine Schofield (violins)
Michael Schofield (viola)
Lucy Wilding (cello
The Bridge Quartet have long been acclaimed as ambassadors for British music internationally and, like Julian Lloyd Webber, have a reputation second to none for their performances and recordings of Delius. Their research on the Delius 1888 Quartet Movements resulted in premieres at the 1999 Jacksonville Festival in Florida and at the Wigmore Hall. We welcome them to the Festival and look forward to hearing a rare performance of the quartet by Norman O’Neill. O’Neill was born in Kensington and was a friend of Delius.

Maté Racz (violin) stunned Festival audiencesl last year with his full-blooded performances of Bartók and Monti’s Czardas in the authentic style of his native Hungary. However, with characteristic versatility and as though to the manner born, he has taken to the Delius sonata for this year’s Festival with equal commitment and insight, promising an outstanding performance.

Gillian Spragg (piano), having won the Gold Medal at the Guildhall School of Music, was greeted by The Times as “an interesting performer” who plays with “phrasing relaxed yet fully motivated, tone, large and warm”. An eclectic career as performer, publisher, teacher and composer took her to Africa in the 1990s. She is artistic director of this Festival.

2.00pm
Maté Racz (violin) with Gillian Spragg (piano)
Delius: Violin Sonata in B
A short selection of Hungarian favourites for violin.
The sonata was composed in 1892, the year Delius visited Hanwell.

3.00pm
The Bridge Quartet
Norman O’Neill: String Quartet in A minor
Delius: String Quartet (1916)
Grainger: Molly on the Shore

This concert is generously supported by the Delius Trust.
The day’s events are a collaboration between Hanwell Community Forum and the Ealing Autumn Festival.
St Mellitus Church is very generously giving the venue and providing refreshments.

Also today:
9.45am Delius in Hanwell 1892 guided walk
12-6.00pm Delius Exhibition (St Mellitus Church)
4.30pm Song of Summer (St Mellitus Church) Ken Russell's biopic of Delius
7.30pm West London Sinfonia (St Barnabas Church) orchestral concert