Mozart at St Cecilia's Hall 1985

Date: 
Saturday, May 25, 1985
Time: 
8 pm
Season/No: 
1985, first concert

First in a series of three concerts entitled 'Mozart at Saint Cecilia's Hall', given in the summer of 1985.

Venue:

Participant(s): 

The Smithson String Quartet

Jaap Schroeder - violin
Marilyn McDonald - violin
Judson Griffin - viola
Kenneth Slowik - violoncello
with
Colin Kingsley - early piano

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Quartet in B-flat major (The Hunt, 1784), K.458
  Allegro vivace assai
  Menuetto (moderato) & Trio
  Adagio
  Allegro assai

Piano Quartet in G minor (1785), K.478
  Allegro
  Andante
  Rondo

INTERVAL
Coffee in the Laigh Room by courtesy of the Friends of St Cecilis'a Hall

Quartet in C major (The Dissonance, 1785), K.465
  Adagio - Allegro
  Andante cantabile
  Menuetto (moderato) & Trio
  Allegro

Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Instrument / Organ Specification: 
Loud, Thomas (grand pianoforte), 1815
Group/Ensemble: 
The Smithson String Quartet

Performance Type:

Programme: 
8-page blue series booklet
Programme Notes: 

No programme notes.
Lecture by Raymond Monelle prefacing the concert at 7 pm: 'The Quartets of Haydn & Mozart'.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Tickets £2.50 (series [3 concerts] £5), Concessions £1.50 (series [3 concerts] £3
Publicity and Reviews: 

Blue poster 'Mozart at St Cecilia's Hall 1985' giving outline details of all three concerts

[Reid] Professor: 
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988

Promoter:

Printer(s): 
Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh
Notes: 

The Smithson Quartet performs on original instruments of the Mozart period and was formed in the last few years to be quartet-in-residence of the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC).  Its recording debut was made in 1984.

Piano by Thomas Loud c1815, acquired for the Russell Collection with the aid of the National Museums Purchase Fund and the Fund of the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall, 1979; restored by John Barnes 1983.

Concert tickets from the Music Faculty, 12 Nicolson Square and the Usher Hall Box Office, Lothian Road
Light refreshments in the Laigh Room following the lecture, price £2.50
Harpsichord and piano maintenance by Grant O'Brien, John Raymond and John Barnes.
Tickets for future concerts in the 1985 'Mozart' series are on sale before the start of each concert.