Hanover Square Quartet - Listen to Her - Fanny Mendelssohn and Emilie Mayer

The Hanover Square Quartet - Debbie, Rebecca, Emma and Poppy - are all specialist players with leading period instrument groups. They are one of the few UK string quartets playing on gut strings - and championing the works of female composers.

Music by 19th century women composers is only now being recognised as equal in quality to works of men. These women were innovative and forward looking - as you will discover.

THE PROGRAMME WILL INCLUDE:

Quartet in E Minor Emilie Mayer (1812-1883) 1851.

Allegro Maestoso (fast, lively and majestically)
Scherzo (playful)
Adagio molto espressivo (Slow and v. expressively)
Allegro appassionato (Fast and passionately)

Quartet in F Minor Op. 80 Felix Mendelssohn

Adagio

Quartet in Eb Major Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)

Adagio ma non troppo (Slow, but not too much)
Allegretto (A little lively)
Romanze
Allegro molto vivace (Fast and vivacious)

SUPPER:

The concert will be followed by one of Michelle's delicious buffet suppers - which will accommodate carnivores, vegans and everyone in between! Red, white and pink wine on tap - or soft drinks if you prefer. All included in the price of your ticket.

The Hanover Square Quartet

Violins: Debbie Diamond, Rebecca Harris, Viola: Emma Alter, Cello: Poppy Walshaw

The Hanover Square Quartet explores the string quartet repertoire on original instruments, with an eye on historical research, and with vitality and spontaneity that these composers demand.

The members of the quartet are top old instrument players performing with world leading groups such as Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Hanover Band, Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Consort, Arcangelo, I Fagiolini, and English Concert.

The Hanover Square Rooms or the Queens Concert rooms were the foremost concert venue in London from the 1770s for a century. On the corner of Hanover Street, they were run by JC Bach and CF Abel, famous musicians in their day.  Visiting performers included Joseph Haydn, Hummel, Harriet Wainwright, Felix Mendelsohn, Liszt, Rubinstein, Joachim,Schumaan - a veritable who's who of the great and good in the music world at the time.