The first two concerts of Skipton Music's 2017/18 season maintained the high quality I have come to expect of the concert series. First up in October was Doric String Quartet , with a programme of Mendelssohn, Thomas Adès and Haydn. The Adès, The Four Quarters (2011), was probably unknown to everyone except the quartet - but definitely worth investigating. The piece is in a classical string quartet model and follows the process of a day in time, comprising 4 movements: Nightfalls , Serenade: Morning Dew, Days and The Twenty-fifth Hour . I particularly liked Morning Dew - concurrently reminding me of early morning light hitting blades of grass, or morning commuters arriving in a big city imagined as colliding atoms. Days hat 'flap of the day' and 'mid-afternoon meander' aspects to it. The Mendelssohn (Quartet in E flat, Op, 12) and Haydn (String Quartet Op. 20 No. 5) were very enjoyable. Fast forward a few weeks (feels like fast forward!!) to Trio Con Brio...
The varied musings of a music maniac...