6. Main Evening Concert

6. Main Evening Concert

Janáček’s ‘Intimate Letters’ tells the story of the great unconsummated love that consumed and inspired him in his last years, where to the consternation of most but not all viola players he replaces the viola with the viola d’amore with its extra resonating strings. Kaariaho’s ‘Terra Memoria’ is dedicated ‘for those departed’. She wrote: I feel when writing for a string quartet that I'm entering into the intimate core of musical communication. Barry Douglas plays Schubert’s tremendous A minor Sonata composed exactly 200 years ago, famous for its slow movement variations that Schubert himself was especially pleased about.