Proms Chamber Music 7: Shostakovich Quintet

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Cadogan Hall5 Sloane Terrace, London, Greater London, SW1X 9DQ, United Kingdom

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Programme

Barber, Samuel (1910-1981)	Adagio for Strings, Op.11 (Molto adagio)
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)	Préludes: Book 2 (Feux d’artifice)
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)	Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.57
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)	Piano Quintet no. 2 in A major, Op.81 (Scherzo-Furiant)

Performers

Elisabeth Leonskaja	Piano
Emerson String Quartet

Eminent Russian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja returns for her second Prom this season, joining the Emerson String Quartet for its Proms debut in a programme of great chamber works of the 20th century. From France, there’s Debussy’s ‘Feux d’artifice’ – a display of technical and aural fireworks for solo piano. From the Emerson’s native America there’s the original string quartet version of Barber’s hauntingly beautiful Adagio for strings, and Russia is represented by Shostakovich’s popular Quintet, with its darkly comic Scherzo and meditative, delicately melancholy Intermezzo.

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Music for a blue Monday: Leonskaja and the Emersons

Mark Pullinger, 31st August

Traditional August Bank Holiday weather – steady rain – was reflected in the melancholy programme for this lunchtime Chamber Prom.

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