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Concerts

RE-FOLKING VIENNESE CLASSICS, WITH ZRI QUINTET

Performers

ZRI Quintet:
Max Baillie
violin / guest director
Iris Pissaride
hammer dulcimer
Jon Banks
accordion
Ben Harlan
clarinet
Matthew Sharp
cello
Britten Sinfonia
Agata Zając
conductor

Programme

Programme to include:
Schubert arr. ZRI
Auf der Brücke D853
Trad arr. ZRI
Cristinel
Beethoven arr. Tchaikovsky/Schneiderheinze
Kreutzer Sonata: movement i
Brahms arr. ZRI
Adagio from Clarinet Quintet Op.115
Brahms arr. ZRI
Hungarian Dance no.5
Webern
Langsamer Satz
Haydn arr. ZRI
String Quartet Op. 76 No. 2: movement iv
G. Boulanger arr. ZRI
Rotes Rosen
Schubert
Scherzo and Trio from String Quintet in C

Inspired by a Viennese pub visited by many 19th-century composers for the folk performances it hosted, Britten Sinfonia and ZRI perform classical music re-imagined for orchestra and folk band.

After the toils of daytime, Schubert and Brahms would often visit Vienna’s Red Hedgehog Tavern, Zum Roten Igel (ZRI), to hear breathtakingly emotional and virtuosic folk music.

Enjoy an evening of “re-folked” music by composers who adored the traditional songs and instrumental music of central and eastern Europe, with arrangements of chamber works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Webern for orchestra and a quintet of clarinet, cello, violin, accordion and hammer dulcimer.

Watch ZRI in action

The Norwich performance is dedicated to the memory of Richard Somerford.

This concert will last approximately 95 minutes including an interval.