Sunday Concerts: Peter Cigleris & Tippett Quartet

Peter Cigleris joins the Tippett Quartet to present two works from two conflicting schools of British composition alongside one of the greatest in the genre that started the English clarinet quintet.

In the first half of the twentieth century, British music was divided into two schools of composition. The first was the "Nationalist" school, lead at the Royal College of Music by Stanford and Parry, while the second was the "Wagnerian" school, lead by Fredrick Corder at the Royal Academy of Music. The only common ground these two schools of thought shared was their love of Germanic music. Clarinettist Peter Cigleris joins the Tippett Quartet to present two works from these two schools of composition alongside one of the greatest in the genre that kick-started the English clarinet quintet.

Arthur Benjamin's Quintet for clarinet and strings was finished in 1913. Discovered in 2014 in the British Library, Benjamin's Quintet has received an Australian premiere and this will be the British premiere.

Conway Hall held the Albert Clements Prizes in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1940, Fredrick Durrant won the prize that year for his Clarinet Quintet in E flat. The Quintet was finally premiered at Conway Hall for the South Place Sunday Concerts in 1946 by the noted clarinettist Pauline Juler. This performance will be the first performance in over seventy years.

Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op.115 significantly inspired the English clarinet quintet. This work caused a stir in London when it was premiered on the 28th March 1892. Stanford famously challenged his then current students to write something similar. The winner was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with his Quintet in F sharp minor. The Benjamin and Durrant Quintets follow in the footsteps of the great Quintet by Brahms.

Programme:

Arthur Benjamin | Quintet in C minor (British Premiere)
Frederick Durrant | Clarinet Quintet in E flat
Brahms | Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op.115

Peter Cigleris (clarinet)
John Mills (violin)
Jeremy Isaac (violin)
Lydia Lowndes-Northcott (viola)
Bozidar Vukotic (cello)

Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.

Category: Arts | Performing Arts.

Artists / Speakers: Tippett Quartet, Peter Cigleris, John Mills, Jeremy Isaac, Lydia Lowndes-Northcott, Bozidar Vukotic.