Wigmore Hall, London

19 July 2010

Catherine Hopper (mezzo)
Julius Drake (piano)
Endellion String Quartet
Introduced by Eva Hoffmann

Programme

Ravel: Deux mélodies hebraïques

Michael Zev Gordon: Mandelstam Settings (London première)

Beethoven: String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

The London première of Michael Zev Gordon’s Mandelstam Settings, commissioned as a memorial to those whose right to free speech was and is denied by tyrannical governments, forms a compelling heart to this concert in which acclaimed young mezzo Catherine Hopper and international musicians Julius Drake and the Endellion String Quartet perform in aid of the Helen Bamber Foundation, Working with Survivors of cruelty (Reg. Charity)