Annual Reid Concert 1977

Date: 
Thursday, February 17, 1977
Time: 
7.30 pm
Season/No: 
1976-1977

Reid Memorial Concert 1977

Venue:

Participant(s): 

The Edinburgh Quartet

Miles Baster - violin
Peter Markham - violin
Michael Beeston - viola
Christopher Gough - violoncello
with
Colin Kingsley - piano
David Nicholson - flute
Michael Tilmouth - harpsichord

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme

String Quartet in G minor, op. 6, no. 2 ... J.G.C. Schetky (1740-1824)
  Allegro con moto
  Largo
  Allegretto

Sonata no. 2 for flute and continuo ... General John Reid (1721-1807)
  Allegro moderato
  Largo affetuoso
  Presto

Piano Sonata in G minor ... John Donaldson (c.1790-1865)
  Allegro moderato, ma molto energetico (sic.)
  Adagio con espressione e molto legato
  Rondo: Allegro molto 

INTERVAL

Variations on 'Jessey o'Dunblane ... 'Signor Pastorelli' (1766-1837)

String Quartet in D minor, K 421 ... W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
  Allegro moderato
  Andante
  Menuetto (Allegretto) - Trio
  Allegretto ma non troppo

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Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Group/Ensemble: 
The (New) Edinburgh (String) Quartet

Performance Type:

Programme Notes: 

Programme notes by Michael Tilmouth and David Johnson.

Documents: 
PDF icon 1977 17 February.pdf (4.45 MB)
Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Tickets are not required for this concert
[Reid] Professor: 
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988

Promoter:

Printer(s): 
Summerhall Press
Notes: 

We are grateful to Sir William Murray of Ochtertyre in whose collection the unique copy of Donaldson's sonata is preserved and to Mr John Barnes for the loan for this concert of a recently restored square piano with Viennese action built in 1820 by Geiser of Rastat.

Forthcoming events listed at the end of the printed programme.