Join the Bloomsbury Quartet for a low stimulus performance as part of Wigmore Hall's Imagine Series. The ensemble will perform a programme without sudden or loud volume in this informal concert.

The concert will benefit from natural daylight through Wigmore Hall’s frosted glass ceiling, and all other lighting in the auditorium itself will be kept low. Announcements will be kept to a minimum and there will be a quiet space in the Bechstein Room. Audiences may leave and re-enter when needed. Hand dryers in the toilets will be switched off and paper towels available instead.

Low stimulus performances may benefit those who prefer a quieter environment and some neurodivergent people.

Janell Yeo violin I
Inês Delgado violin II
Rachel Maxey viola
Felicity Smith cello

PROGRAMME

Daniel Fardon - Six Movements for String Quartet:
I. Prelude; flessibile
II. Bloomsbury Morning; clement and leafy

Henry Purcell - Fantasia No.11 in G major, Z.742

Arvo Pärt - Summa

Rebecca Clarke - Poem

Philip Glass - String Quartet No.3, “Mishima”:
VI. Mishima/Closing

Jean Sibelius - Andante Festivo

Florence Price - Five Folksongs in Counterpoint:
III. Andantino Cantabile “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes”
IV. Allegro “Shortnin’ Bread”

Ralph Vaughan Williams - String Quartet No.2 in A Minor:
IV. Epilogue: Andante Sostenuto

‘Pioneering Women’ Schools Concert with Jessie Maryon Davies | 6 July 2022 | Wigmore Hall

Join presenter Jessie Maryon Davies and the dynamic Bloomsbury Quartet as they explore music by female composers in this interactive concert for 7-11-year-olds and their parents and carers. Discover stories of pioneering women through their inspirational music for string quartets featuring music by Henriette Bosmans, Caroline Shaw, Elizabeth Maconchy and Hildegard von Bingen.

This concert experience has been created especially for Wigmore Hall Learning as a spin-off from Bloomsbury Quartet’s "ReCentred: Elizabeth Maconchy" show.

PROGRAMME

Rosy Wertheim (1888-1949)
String Quartet: I. Allegro con moto

Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)
String Quartet No. 1: II. Scherzo. Allegro molto

Caroline Shaw (b.1982)
Entr’acte (excerpts)

Jessie Montgomery (b.1981)
Voodoo Dolls

Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952)
String Quartet: II. Lento

Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
String Quartet: I. Modéré

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
O Virtus Sapientiae

Elizabeth Maconchy
String Quartet No. 1: IV. Presto

Trailer for Bloomsbury Quartet's 2019/20 UK tour.

Audio: Maconchy Quartet No.1, 4th Mvmt | performed by Bloomsbury Quartet
Video: Shot by Preston Yeo, edited by Janell Yeo | Stroud Green Festival 21-06-19

ReCentred | Elizabeth Maconchy is supported by the Ambache Trust and the RVW Trust, with help from Clare Norburn and Stroud Green Festival, Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust, Nicola LeFanu, and DONNE Women in Music.

Celebrating the best new works by UK composers writing for classical, jazz and sound art, Daniel Fardon‘s ‘Six Movements’ has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in the Small Chamber category at The Ivors Composer Awards 2020.

World Premiere performed live at the Wigmore Hall on 17 July 2019. This piece was commissioned during Fardon's tenure as 2018-19 RPS/Wigmore Hall Apprentice Composer, and composed for the Bloomsbury Quartet.

I. Prelude; flessibile
II. Bloomsbury Morning; clement & leafy
III. Interlude — duet in five; comodo, lilting
IV. Centres; silvery-simple-spirited-silvery
V. Interlude — duet in seven; comodo, lilting
VI. Strings in the earth and air (after James Joyce); slow, sonoro

Live performance in Wigmore Hall on 17 July 2019, at the culmination of the Bloomsbury Quartet's tenure as 2018-19 Open Academy/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble.

i) Allegro Feroce
ii) Scherzo (Allegro Molto)
iii) Andante Sostenuto
iv) Presto

Live performance in Wigmore Hall on 17 July 2019, at the culmination of the Bloomsbury Quartet's tenure as 2018-19 Open Academy/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble.

I. Alla Valse Viennese. Allegro
II. Alla Serenata. Allegretto con moto
III. Alla Czeca. Molto Allegro
IV. Alla Tango. Andante
V. Alla Tarantella.

This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a special opportunity to hear a live performance in an informal environment. Enjoy an hour’s music performed by the Bloomsbury Quartet, the Royal Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Ensemble for 2018/19.

Saturday 15 June 2019 11AM / £5

There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and house lights will remain up. Audience members are welcome to move in and out of the auditorium as they need to, and there is a designated quiet area.

A collaborative music and movement project led by Felicity Smith (cello) at Vauxhall Primary School. The project consisted of a series of fortnightly workshops with Year 3 in June - July 2018.

Live performance filmed by Rob Lipscombe - 0:20 Beethoven Quartet #11, 22:45 Britten Quartet #2 1st Mvmt, 33:07 Stravinsky 3 Pieces.

“On July 6th 2018 a special concert was held in East Cowes Town Hall dedicated to the centenary of the martyrdom of the Russian Imperial Family and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Romanov. This is the first part of the concert featuring the Bloomsbury Quartet who play music by Beethoven, Benjamin Britten and Stravinsky.”