For the opening concert of their 2024 residency, the Consone Quartet is joined by recent BBC New Generation Artist Helen Charlston in a family-inspired concert.

Clara and Robert Schumann (wife and husband) were close friends with Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn (sister and brother), and often attended the ‘big soirées’ Fanny hosted in Berlin. Robert’s joyous Quartet in F, one of three dedicated to Felix, was written during his famous ‘Year of Chamber Music’ (1842), while ‘Frauenliebe und -leben’ and all other songs in this concert are performed in new arrangements for voice and string quartet by Bill Thorp.

Tickets available from Music at Paxton

Saturday 20th July, Picture Gallery, Paxton House, 7.30pm