Strings Across the Centuries

Church Window Mask

Wednesday 20 May 7pm

Founded in 1921 as Britain’s first professional chamber orchestra and honoured by the patronage of HM The Queen, the London Chamber Orchestra has shaped chamber music in the UK for over a century.

P R O G R A M M E

PURCELL
Chacony in G minor, Z.730
PUCCINI
Crisantemi
PHILIP GLASS
String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima”

— I n te r val —

BARBER
Adagio for Strings
DVOŘÁK
String Quartet No. 12 in F , “American”

Three centuries of the string quartet in a single evening — from the courtly stillness of Purcell to the cinematic intensity of Philip Glass, closing with the sunlit warmth of Dvořák’s American.

Concert begins 7.30pm

W I T H  O U R  C O M P L I M E N T S

Champagne reception 6.30pm
Drinks at the interval & afterwards

DRESS CODE: S M A R T  E V E N I N G  A T T I R E