Mark Viner, David Juritz, Adrian Bradbury, Yuri Zhislin
Wednesday 18 June 2025, 19:30
St Michael and All Angels Church
Tickets £20
Summer Serenade: David Juritz and Mark Viner join friends for an evening of chamber music.
Mozart at his most poignant, a virtuoso Saints-Saens trio and Schumann's lyrical piano quartet played by four acclaimed musicians: David Juritz violin; Yuri Zhislin viola; Adrian Bradbury cello; Mark Viner piano.
Programme:
W.A. Mozart Sonata for violin and piano in E minor. K305
Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor Op.92
Cecilia McDowall Exaudi
Robert Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb major Op.47
EXAUDI
Cecilia McDowall
I wrote Exaudi (2013) for violin and piano as a gift to celebrate the 70th birthday of academic and violinist friend, Helen Sills. As an acknowledgement to her profound scholarship, particularly in relation to Stravinsky, I have embroidered allusions to the composer into the texture of the piece; some will be obvious, others perhaps less so.
But with a desire to make this intrinsically Helen’s piece I structured Exaudi around her initials, H and S. According to the German scale, H is our note B (as in Bach’s B minor Mass, known in German as Messe H moll) and S sounds like Es (in the German scale) which is the name given to Eb. But, (and there is a danger of the programme note being longer than the piece itself) I have altered the Eb in the score enharmonically to become a D sharp so the whole work is based around the key of B Major (if you’re still with me!)
The piece lasts five minutes. The title comes from the first word sung by the chorus in Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. Helen Sill’s excellent book is called Stravinsky, God and Time, issued by the academic publisher, Brill. My thanks to David Juritz and Mark Viner for so kindly giving tonight’s London premiere of Exaudi.
© 2025, Cecilia McDowall
Celebrating composer Cecilia McDowall of Bedford Park
