Lammermuir Festival (2/4)
Quatuor Mosa茂ques play Beethoven and Mozart at the Lammermuir Festival.
Period instrument specialists, Quatuor Mosa茂ques, return for the second Lunchtime concert from the Lammermuir Festival. The festival is held during September in a host of historic venues dotted around the rolling countryside of East Lothian. Today鈥檚 highlights were recorded at Chalmers Memorial Church in Port Seton and St. Mary鈥檚 Parish Church in Whitekirk.
The reason for Mozart composing his Adagio and Fugue K.546 is unclear, but possibly spurred by the need to earn some money, Mozart reworked one of his earlier keyboard duets (K.426) for strings, prefaced it with a brief adagio and had it published. The ominous start quickly gives way to the fugue which, in contrast, is relentless to the end. This is followed by Beethoven鈥檚 String Quartet in F major Op 59, No 1.
Commissioned in 1806 by Prince Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna, the ambition and intricacy displayed in the 鈥楻azumovsky鈥� quartets resulted in a largely negative reception from critics, but Beethoven was defiant, stating that 鈥渢hey are not for you, but for a later age鈥�.
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue K.546
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major Op 59, No 1 鈥楻azumovsky鈥�
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Presenter: Kate Molleson
Producer: Gavin McCollum
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in F major, Op 59, No 1 'Razumovsky'
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle in G minor, Op 126 No 2
Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.- Ludwig van Beethoven - Diabelli-Variationen: Andras Schiff.
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