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Published: 26 July 2007

Rising star violinis Chloe Hanslip

Chloe’s the real string!

PREVIEW: CHLOE HANSLIP KRONOS QUARTET
Barbican

THERE are two exceptionally promising concerts in store at the Barbican this weekend.
Chloe Hanslip, a 19-year-old violinist from Surrey and a true rising star of the classical world (you may recognise her as the child prodigy in Ralph Fiennes film adaptation of Pushkin’s Evgeny Onegin) will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on Saturday as part of the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart season.
She will be joined by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields with conductor Jakin Hrusa.
Hanslip opened the Cheltenham Music Festival this month with a performance of Barber’s Violin Concerto, a recording of which is currently on-line at www.bbc.co.uk/
radio3.
On Sunday, following what will undoubtedly be many cups of peppermint tea imbibed in an attempt to unwind after Hanslip’s concert, things will take a turn for the spectacular when the Kronos Quartet move into the Barbican Hall.
If Hanslip can be described as a rising star, the Kronos Quartet are surely on the verge of going supernova. Their work, both live and recorded, is of such exceptional quality that I really can’t recommend them enough.
Their performance on Sunday (with special guest Wu Man) will comprisetwo UK premieres of works by Henryk Gorecki and Terry Riley.
Riley’s new work, The Cusp of Magic, was commissioned by Kronos to mark the composer’s 70th birthday, while Gorecki’s much-hyped and eagerly awaited
Quartet No 3 will undoubtedly prove the
highlight of the evening for the countless fans of his seminal work, Symphony No 3.

* The Kronos Quartet concert will be reviewed next week.

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