Celebrating 150 years of Freud
PREVIEW - CELEBRATING FREUD
Hampstead Parish Church
ONE of Britain’s finest string quartets will be at Hampstead Parish Church on Sunday to perform a concert celebrating the birth of ground-breaking psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
The Allegri String Quartet, who have themselves been in existence for more than 50 years with a range of performers, will be performing one the most unusual, but surely one of the most satisfying, of Mozart’s string quartets, the K 465, known as the Dissonance.
Mozart expert Nicholas Kenyon, in an interview earlier this year to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death describes it: “He builds up the tension through opening bars of this string quartet in a way that is really quite unprecedented.
“It uses counterpoint and what we now call dissonance, ie notes that really don’t fit together clashing against each other and then being resolved into a rather sunny and beautiful opening allegro.”
It was a piece that attracted much criticism when it first emerged but now popular, it remains a very powerful work and, indeed, almost sounds like Bartok. It is sometimes hard to remember it was written by Mozart in 1785, six years before his early death. Such a complex work seems most appropriate to celebrate Freud.
The Allegri will also perform Shostakovch’s 8th Quartet before being joined by American pianist Mark Swartzentruber, whose own reputation is being continually enhanced by his excellent series of recording of piano pieces including sonatas by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert.
Tickets for this Sunday evening concert should be in high demand so ring promptly to avoid disappointment.
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