Music Among Friends

Friday 19 December · 7:30pm
St John-at-Hampstead

Britten – Three Divertimenti
Mozart – Clarinet Quintet in A major
Beethoven – Septet in E-flat major

Artists:
Benjamin Nabarro · Claudia Ajmone-Marsan – violins
Rachel Roberts – viola · Gemma Rosefield – cello
Robert Plane – clarinet · Naomi Atherton – horn
Emily Hultmark – bassoon · Enno Senft - double bass

A festival opening that sets the tone: spirited, lyrical and full of joy. Britten’s playful Divertimenti leads to Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, a work of incomparable beauty and serenity, and one of the most radiant achievements in all chamber music, written by Mozart for his friend Anton Stadler. Beethoven’s magnificent Septet brings the concert to a resplendent close - a work in the classical divertimento style, mirroring the opening Britten pieces, but on a scale almost orchestral. A youthful masterpiece of virtuosic entertainment, sublime beauty, warmth and wit.

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