Guildford International Music Festival 2007
Events for Thursday 22 March 2007
Music and Manners in 18th -Century England
A lecture in words and music, presented by Jeanne and Marguerite Dolmetsch using recorders, viols and harpsichord
Event number: 56
Guildford Institute, 2.45pm
£3, £2.50 Institute members
Music and Manners transports us back to the 18th Century, to an age of elegance and taste, wit and satire, extravagant fashions and a complex code of manners. Vivid accounts given by contemporaries such as Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen and Horace Walpole are complemented by the music of the period.
Tickets available from the Festival Box Office,
or Guildford Institute 01483 562142
Promoted by Guildford Institute
The Brodsky String Quartet
Rhythm & Texture
Event number: 57
Holy Trinity Church, 7.30pm
£18 full, £16 senior citizens £5 concessions
There's something that sets the Brodsky Quartet apart from other groups. …that they choose to stand rather than sit when playing drives the music and gives a real edge to their performance. The intensity of concentration and communication between the players is palpable and reaches out from the stage right into the audience. St. George's Bristol, BBC Celebrity series
Javier Alvarez Metro Chabacano
George Gershwin Lullaby
Mario Lavista Reflejos de la Noche
Samuel Barber String Quartet, Op11
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F
An intriguing programme in which vibrant rhythms and magical textures play a major role. The Brodsky Quartet brilliantly demonstrate how to keep the medium of the string quartet live, useful and thriving, mixing atmospheric new works with two beautiful classics of the string repertoire and Gershwin's delicate but subtly syncopatic Lullaby. With entertaining and illuminating introductions, this is an engrossing and enjoyable programme with many layers.
