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BBC Proms – Marmen Quartet
August 16, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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The Marmen Quartet Plays Haydn and Simpson
13:00 Mon 16 Aug 2021 Cadogan Hall
The prize-winning young Marmen Quartet makes its BBC Proms debut with a concert celebrating composer, BBC producer and writer Robert Simpson.
Joseph Haydn Quartet in D major, Op. 64 No. 5, ‘The Lark’ (20 mins)
Robert Simpson String Quartet no, 1 (25 mins)
About This Event
The prize-winning young Marmen Quartet, formed in 2013 at London’s Royal College of Music, makes its BBC Proms debut with Haydn’s vivacious ‘Lark’ Quartet, which opens with a soaring violin melody that gives the work its nickname. It is also the inspiration for the String Quartet No. 1 by Robert Simpson, performed in this centenary year of his birth. Its opening draws on Haydn’s own initial theme and its ingenious coda reflects Haydn’s elegant simplicity, with a nod to Beethoven thrown in for good measure.
There will be no interval
This concert is repeated at 6.00pm