Roman River Spring Series: Beauty and the Bass: Dvořák, Rossini, and Mendelssohn

The Bloomsbury Players return to Roman River's Spring Concerts with a programme showcasing Dvořák's double bass quintet, performed on gut strings and in its original 5-movement version (including the extraordinary Intermezzo).

They pair this with Rossini's first Sonata a quattro, composed when he was just twelve years old, and Fanny Mendelssohn's rhapsodic and poignant String Quartet in E-flat - her only mature work for that ensemble.

Programme

Gioachino Rossini Sonata a quattro No. 1 in G major (1804/26)
Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-flat major (1834)

(Interval)

Antonín Dvořák String Quartet in G major, op.77 (1875) - including Dvořák's famous Intermezzo

Duration: approx. 1 hr 45 mins (including a 20-minute interval)

Sijie Chen   violin | viola | cello | double bass