The Bloomsbury Players return to the Roman River Spring Series and Vermeer Chamber Concerts with a programme showcasing Dvorak’s double bass quintet on gut strings and in its original 5-movement version (including the extraordinary Intermezzo that was removed). They pair this with Rossini’s first Sonata a quattro, composed when he was only twelve years old, and Fanny Mendelssohn’s rhapsodic and poignant string quartet.

We are grateful to the Continuo Foundation for supporting this project.

Programme

Gioachino Rossini - Sonata a quattro, no.1 in G major

Fanny Mendelssohn - String Quartet in Eb major

~~~ Interval ~~~

Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet in G major, op.77 (including Intermezzo)

~ The Bloomsbury Players - Sijie Chen & Will McGahon (violins), Hannah Shaw (viola), Orlando Jopling (‘cello), Alexander Jones (double bass) ~