This Sunday, the splendid Cassatt String Quartet performs Barber's String Quartet (with the tragic slow movement widely known as the Adagio for Strings), and Beethoven's late String Quartet, Op.131.
Of special interest is a program Sunday featuring the splendid Cassatt String Quartet and the brilliant pianist Ursula Oppens.
Wes Morgan, their centre-half, spent part of that period operating as an auxiliary striker, almost winning the game in a breathless finale featuring a string of splendid saves from Ben Foster.
The program offers: the Trio in B flat for Piano, Violin and Cello; the Horn Quintet in E flat (for horn and four strings); and the splendid Quintet in C, K. 515, scored for string quartet with an extra viola.
The gig takes place in the bright, domed foyer, around a splendid grand piano, with a string of fairylights marking out a makeshift stage.
The splendid Arnold Schoenberg Choir joins the Juilliard String Quartet as the star attractions for Maurizio Pollini's wide-ranging mix of the old and new tomorrow night at 8, with a preconcert lecture at 7. This will be the third in a series of five events.
Quiet City, for trumpet (the splendid Philip Cobb), cor anglais (Christine Pendrill) and strings, derives from incidental music to a play by Irwin Shaw, depicting an ageing man's recognition of his failure to realise his youthful ambitions.
Plates came suitably garnished with cheesy polenta, string beans, spinach or a splendid, sage-imbued dome of rice.
The Sun, in particular, is a splendid little thing, with its wicked, misshapen strings bending this way and that as guitars bloom and burst.
Anna Larsson, splendid and statuesque as Erda, appeared out of the string and harp sections.
