Last night’s quartet music was a surprise – our viola player had found some very old copies of Beethoven’s Op 18. Yellow with age, heavily annotated, with some very useful fingerings pencilled into my part. Someone had enjoyed these a good many times.
Of the 6 quartets I picked number 3 – purely because it’s the one I’ve played most often, which is a pretty poor reason, thinking about it. It was fairly new to the others, but we had a good shot at it, and enjoyed it. I think it is probably the easiest of the set. One to go back to !
Our leader thinks that it’s not Christmas until we’ve played the string quartet arrangement of Corelli’s ‘Christmas’ Concerto – Op 6 No 8. Lovely piece, and not too difficult. We all enjoyed it.
(Incidentally I had played it the previous week at our ‘For Fun’ cello group – with 11 cellos ! Fortunately I had the actual cello part – the other parts are high – very high …!)
(String quartet parts are available on IMSLP here)
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