The Revolutionary Drawing Room conclude their Beethoven cycle with the composer’s late quartets, across a series of four afternoon concerts.

Beethoven’s self-deprecating description of Op. 131 as a quartet ‘put together from various pilferings’ belies his true feeling for it, as the favourite of his late quartets.  Radical in structure, its seven movements linked in a chain of continuously evolving ideas, it combines the technical complexities of fugue with moments of charming simplicity and humour.

‘Euphonia’ takes its name from a story in Berlioz’s Evenings in the Orchestra, which describes a German city in the year 2344, devoted exclusively to music.  Composed during lockdown in spring 2020, ‘Euphonia’ imagines four musicians from this city escaping in a hot air balloon to seek their fortune in London.

Each concert lasts approximately one hour and is presented without an interval.

NB. SJSS will be implementing a socially distanced and safe environment. Practical details will be forwarded to ticket holders prior to the event. Should circumstances prevent the concerts from going ahead then full refunds will be provided.

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DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE at www.sjss.org.uk from 31st October 2020