Join us throughout the spring/summer months as ConTempo Quartet continue their popular series, Lunchtime with ConTempo! These concerts will be taking place on the first Tuesday of every month at 1:10pm (except for this month which will be next Tuesday, March 14th). Enjoy the beautiful surrounds of St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church as the ConTempo present music combining both well known, and lesser known composers & works.
March:
This month, the programme includes music from the siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel. ConTempo Quartet will perform Mendelssohn's "String Quartet No. 1, Op. 12 in E flat major" and Hensel's "String Quartet in E flat major". Book now!
April:
For our April concert, listen to ConTempo capture the essence of the great composer Joseph Haydn in "Seven Last Words of Christ".
May:
This May ConTempo will perform repertoire from the Czech Austro-Hungarian composer Antonín Dvořák and the Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist. Listen to ConTempo perform Dvořák’s “String Quartet No 10 in E flat major, Op 51, B 92”, (Slavonik) and Rehnqvist's "The Riddle" (Gatan).
June:
Listen and enjoy this June as the ConTempo perform repertoire from the British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Taylor's work was heavily influenced by traditional African music, he became one of the most progressive writers of his time. He was also well known for his poetry, especially in his cantata trilogy The Song of Hiawatha. The first part of this work Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, was so popular that he went on three tours in the United States. In 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to visit the White House. As well as being a great composer and conductor, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a political activist who fought against race prejudices through his music.
Contempo Quartet will perform their rendition of Coleridge-Taylor's "Fantasiestücke" (Fantasy Pieces), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “String Quartet No.21, in D major”, and Katharina Baker’s “String Quartet”.