MF4 Nash Ensemble

Nash Ensemble

Stephanie Gonley violin
Jonathan Stone violin
Lars Anders Tomter viola
Adrian Brendel cello
Graham Mitchell double bass
Richard Hosford clarinet
Ursula Leveaux bassoon
Richard Watkins horn

Britten 3 Divertimenti for String Quartet
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major K 581
Beethoven Septet in E flat major Op 20

Described by the Sunday Times as “chamber music royalty”, and with a vast and varied repertoire, the Nash Ensemble has long been a firm Mozartfest favourite. Here the Nash will perform music from Benjamin Britten to Beethoven, with Mozart between. Britten’s 3 Divertimenti for String Quartet are three individual character pieces, effervescent, accessible and appealing. Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major K 581, Mozart’s only finished work for that instrument, needs no introduction, nor does clarinettist Richard Hosford. Tonight’s programme is completed by Beethoven’s Septet in E flat major Op 20 in which the youthful composer took up and extended the 18th century tradition of the divertimento in a work which became one of his most successful and enduringly popular.

Supported by Wessex Water 

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