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“Dover Beach” may have been the shortest work on the evening’s program, but it made the most profound impression, largely due to baritone Martin Wright’s heartfelt and subtly modulated singing. James Episcopal Church, the Pacific appeared just as calm as the opening lines of Matthew Arnold’s poem portrays the North Sea from the Dover shore. Now established as quartet in residence at St Mary’s Penzance, the Corineus String Quartet also performs in Truro, St Ives Newquay and Falmouth and looks forward to continuing future collaboration with local soloists and guest players, as well as further promoting local composers.Saturday night’s setting for a performance of Samuel Barber’s “Dover Beach” could not have been more congruent. We have also enjoyed working with mezzo-soprano Maria Heseltine on works by Butterworth, Warlock and Barber. Our growing Schubert interest is demonstrated by performances of the C minor Quartettsatz (1814), the 'Rosamunde' Quartet (1824) and most recently two performances of the fabulous String Quintet in C (1828) with guest ‘cellist Patrick Gale. Other premieres have included four string quartets by our ‘cellist Stephen Brown.
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In 2014 we gave the world premiere of Ivor Gurney’s Quartett in A (1919) in a concert with Elgar’s String Quartet (1919).
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We’ve also recently developed a liking for Schubert! Since our successful debut concert in 2012 our performances have included: Debussy’s forward-looking String Quartet in G minor (1893) Opus 10, a full performance of Samuel Barber’s Op 11 String Quartet (1936) with it’s famous Adagio second movement, Brahms’ beautiful, autumnal Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115 (1891) with guest soloist Patrick Saunders, the Cornish premier of Philip Glass’s 1983 quartet Company, Shostakovich’s quartets Nos 4 (1949) and 8 (1960), Vaughan Williams’ first quartet (1908) and Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914).
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The Corineus String Quartet mainly specialises in the string quartet repertoire composed since 1850, although programmes may also include earlier works, such as Purcell’s great Chacony. Click here for details of future concerts! And click here for clips of us playing! Now established as quartet in residence at St Mary’s Penzance, the Corineus String Quartet also performs in Truro, St Ives Newquay and Falmouth and looks forward to continuing future collaboration with local soloists and guest players, as well as further promoting local composers. With guest players Laura Parfitt (viola) and Patrick Gale (‘cello) we were pleased to perform Schoenberg's luscious sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) and Brahms B-flat major String Sextet No 1 (1860) in March 2017, and in March 2019 wei performed with the same guest players, Ethel Smyth’s wonderful quintet Opus 1, and gave the premiere of a new Cornish inspired sextet Golyow Pennwydh specially written for us by Pippa Drumond. Our growing Schubert interest is demonstrated by performances of the C minor Quartettsatz (1814), the 'Rosamunde' Quartet (1824) as well as the fabulous String Quintet in C (1828) with guest ‘cellist Patrick Gale.