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Ryedale Festival Launch Concert

  • Pickering Parish Church, YO18 7BE (map)

Arod Quartet

Mendelssohn – String Quartet in E minor (op. 44, no. 2)
Webern – Langsamer Satz
Beethoven – String Quartet in E minor (op. 59, no. 2)

The Ryedale Festival season opens with music of deep happiness: the high spirits of a quartet Mendelssohn   composed shortly after the birth of his first child, followed by the lush romanticism of a magical early piece by Webern, conceived during a country walk with his lover and breathing an air of contentment and oneness with nature. The outstanding Arod Quartet then turn to the second of Beethoven’s famous Razumovsky quartets, with its hymn-like slow movement and a scherzo based on a Russian theme, in deference to Beethoven’s patron, Count Andrej Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to the Imperial Court in Vienna, who commissioned the three Opus 59 quartets.

After the concert, the festival’s Artistic Director Christopher Glynn will introduce the programme for the 2018 Ryedale Festival.

‘it is no longer a question of shared lives, but of the fusion of beings. It is hardly believable that the Arod have only four years of existence!’ – Le Monde.

Interval Bar


Price -  £20.00   Weekend Pass for all three events (Please ring box office) -  £50.00

There are a limited number of £5 tickets for Under 25s available – please call the Box Office for more information.

Earlier Event: March 15
The Circus of Horrors: Voodoo VaudEvil
Later Event: March 18
Ladies of the Blues