
RNS I: Souvenir de Florence
Royal Northern Sinfonia and MUSICON launch an exciting new multi-season collaboration with chamber music by Russian composers:
Sergei Prokofiev: Quintet in G minor
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Prokofiev’s Quintet, originally written for a travelling ballet troupe, offers a colourful circus of clashing harmonies, tumbling melodies and unexpected rhythms. In contrast, Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet is a haunting, deeply personal piece written in just three days on a visit to Germany in 1960, its mournful tones reflecting the shadow of wartime still hanging over the city of Dresden. Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence rounds off the evening – a sun-drenched string sextet bursting with passion and warmth, mixing Italian inspiration with rich Russian melodism.
Tickets £15 / Students £5 / under-18s £2