• Date and time: Sunday 7 May 2023, 2.30pm
  • Location: In-person only
    National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate (Map)
  • Admission: Tickets: Free, booking required

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Ah! Vienna – Consone Quartet Masterclass

Members of the Consone Quartet, specialists in the music of the Viennese Classical composers, work with University of York students on solo and chamber music repertoire of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Franz Benda   Sonata no. 11 in D, Lee III:V 
Giovanni Melchiori  violin
Peter Seymour  harpsichord

Josef Haydn   Cello Concerto no. 2 in D, Hob VIIb:2                                                       
Mari MacGregor  cello
Max Generowicz  piano

WA Mozart   Violin Concerto no. 5 in A               
Jin Ma  violin
Peter Seymour  piano

Baroque+ Day: Ah, Vienna!

Mozart wrote to his father in 1781 that Vienna was ‘the best place in the world’ to be a musician. This year’s Baroque+ Day takes a long view of musical life in the city in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, featuring historical performance staff and students from the University of York.