John Casken
The University of Manchester's resident string quartet are to premiere a major work of one of the UK's leading composers at the Martin Harris Centre tomorrow(11 May). John Casken, who is a Professor Emeritus at the University, will hear his composition 'Inevitable Rifts' for string quintet performed for the first time in the UK by Quatuor Danel - joined by renowned cellist Petr Prause. Like Schubert's famous Quintet in C, D 956, also in the concert, Inevitable Rifts adds an extra cello to the string quartet, making for a richer sound. The programme is completed by Haydn's Quartet Op. No. 4, in the key of F sharp minor. Casken explores the tensions and differences created by forming an alliance between the viola and two cellos quite separate from the two violins The rift is heard at the start with the lower instruments playing dark, pulsating chords, and the violins moving together in a slow broken melodic passage.
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