Divertimento String Quartet
2020
January/February – Topsham, Totnes, Kingsbridge, Lustleigh, Plymouth, Barkham (North Devon), Calstock, Bude
Haydn – String Quartet in A, Op 20 no 6.
Aaron Copland – 2 Pieces for String Quartet
Brahms – Op 51 no 1 in C minor
2019
January/February – Topsham, Totnes, Kingsbridge, Lustleigh, Plymouth, Bude
Mozart – String Quartet in C, K 465 ‘The Dissonance’
Benjamin Britten – Three Divertimenti
Debussy – String Quartet Op 10 in G minor
April/May – Topsham, Totnes, Kingsbridge, Lustleigh, Plymouth, Bude
Franz Haydn – String Quartet in Eb, op 33 no 2
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in D, op 18 no 3
Max Bruch – String Quartet no 1 in C minor
October/November – Topsham, Totnes, Kingsbridge, Lustleigh, Plymouth, Bude
Haydn – String Quartet Op 50, no 6 – “The Frog”
Joaquin Turina – The Bullfighter’s Prayer
Philip Glass – String Quartet no 2 – “Company”
Vaughan Williams – String Quartet no 1 in G minor
2018
January/February; Topsham, Totnes, Kingsbridge, Lustleigh, Plymouth
Boccherini Op 33 in G min
Kodaly – String Quartet no 2, Op 10.
Verdi – Ave Maria from Othello
Tchaikovsky String Quartet no 1
April/May; Topsham, Lustleigh, Totnes, Kingsbridge, Tavistock, Plymouth
Haydn – String Quartet, Op 64 no 5
Ivor Gurney – Andante and Molto Allegro
Mendelssohn – Scherzo and Capriccio, Op 81
Brahms – String Quartet in Bb Op 64
May 2018
Concert for the Ivor Gurney Society in The Ivor Gurney Hall, Gloucester. They played two string quartet movements and joined baritone Michael Lampard in songs by Ian Venables, Ivor Gurney and George Butterworth.
October/November 2018; Topsham, Lustleigh, Totnes, Kingsbridge, Bude, Plymouth, South Petherton
Schubert – String Quartet in D, D94
Camille Saint-Saëns – String Quartet no 2 in G, Op 153
Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet no 8, Op 110
2017
January; Topsham, Lustleigh, Totnes, Kingsbridge
Haydn – String Quartet Op 54 no 1
Ian Venables – String Quartet Op 32
Schubert – String Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’
April; Topsham, Lustleigh, Totnes.
Mozart Divertimento in D
Rossini String Sonata no 1
Schubert Octet
October; Wembury, Totnes, Topsham, Kingsbridge, Lustleigh
Beethoven – String Quartet,Op 18 no 4
Villa-Lobos – String Quartet No 1
Ravel – String Quartet in F
2016
January; St Margaret’s Church, Topsham & Lustleigh Village Hall with Divertimento and Eberle String Quartets.
Bach Double Violin Concerto
Telemann Viola Concerto
Mendelssohn Octet
April/May; St Margaret’s Church, Topsham; Lustleigh Village Hall; St Edmund’s Church, Kingsbridge; St John’s Church, Totnes.
Mozart String Quartet Op499, ‘The Hoffmeister’
Shostakovich String Quartet no 1
Smetana String Quartet no 1
October; Topsham, Lustleigh, Kingsbridge, Totnes
Bach – Prelude & Fugue
Schubert – Quartettsatz
Prokofiev – Quartet no 2
Schumann – Quartet no 1
2015
January; St Margaret’s Church, Topsham. Dartington Space Studio 2. Holy Trinity Church, Salcombe.
Beethoven – String Quartet No 1 in F, Op 18 no 1
Shostakovich – Two Pieces for String Quartet
Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade for String Quartet
Brahms – String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2
October; St Werburgh’s Church, Wembury, near Plymouth. Dartington Space Studio 2. St Margaret’s Church, Topsham.
Haydn Op 77 no 1
Mendelssohn Op 81, Andante, Cappricio and Scherzo
Walton String Quartet
2014
April; Kingskerswell Church, near Newton Abbot.
A meditation in words and music on Haydn’s Seven Last Words From The Cross. Readings sourced from scripture and First World War authors.
May; St Margaret’s Church, Topsham.
Mozart – String Quartet K. 387 in G, ‘The Spring’
Igor Stravinsky – 3 pieces for String Quartet
Edvard Grieg – String Quartet no 1 in G minor, Op 27
September; St Werburg’s Church, Wembury, Plymouth, St Margaret’s Church, Topsham.
Haydn – String Quartet Op 33 no 3 ‘The Bird’
Hyacinthe Jadin (1765-1800) – String Quartet Op 4 no 3
Borodin – Nocturne from String Quartet no 2
Schubert – String Quartet in A minor ‘Rosamunde’ D 804, Op. 29
2013
July; Sharpham House, Ashprington, Totnes
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet in G, Op 64 no 4
Ludvig van Beethoven – String Quartet in F, Op 18 no 1
Franz Schubert – String Quartet in A minor, Op 29
The Divertimento String Quartet gives themed performances with an actor reading on a variety of subjects.
Listen to The Divertimento String Quartet in live performance…
Prokofiev String Quartet 3rd movement excerpt
Two Pieces for String Quartet by Shostakovich
Brahms String – Andante Moderato from Quartet in A minor
Wolf – Italian Serenade
Anthropocene by Jack Hurst and Linda Long recorded for The Eden Project’s new Invisible You – The Human Microbiome