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Benyounes Quartet - Professional Music in the Chapel

Presented by: Oakham School Music Department

0	OAKHAM: School Chapel
P	Thursday 13th October, 2022
N	7:00pm

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Beethoven - String Quartet in B flat major, op. 18 no. 6
Mendelssohn - String Quartet in F minor, op. 80

We are delighted to welcome the Benyounes Quartet to Oakham School for the first time, in which our Head of Strings, Emily Holland, performs as a founding member. Their one-hour programme contrasts wonderful string quartets from the pen of the great composers Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn. Beethoven’s work explores a wide range of characters in its movements, embracing an exhilarating opening movement, a sober and ornate Adagio, an astonishing rhythmic Scherzo, and a daring concluding movement entitled ‘La Malinconia'. Mendelssohn’s final string quartet, composed in the closing months of his life, is grief-laden, agitated and emotionally charged as he responded to the tragic news of his sister’s death. Embracing a jarring Scherzo movement and some solace in the lyrical Adagio movement, this concert offers variety aplenty in the hands of this acclaimed professional ensemble.