Ashburton Chamber Music Festival - concert 3

Continuing a theme of some of Bach's greatest works, this concert begins with his soulful and stunning Partita for solo flute. The early 20th century composer Arthur Foote's dark 'Night Music' for flute and string quartet follows. We then have a world premiere by Devon's own transplanted American Tom Vignieri for string quartet and improvised saxophone and written exclusively for this concert. The festival concludes with Bartok's irrepressible fourth string quartet, a masterpiece of the 20th Century which turns on a dime between angry and angular to mysterious alien night music; silly plucked waltzes to manic scurrying scherzos; and a last movement that is like a troupe of local gypsies crashing in your door and dancing uproariously on one's carefully set dining room table.