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A Hint of Danger:

An Evening with Ludwig van Beethoven, Leoš Janáček, Leo Tolstoy and Ted Hughes

Presented by The Literary Consultancy & The Tamesis Quartet

Mon 19 Dec 2011, 5:30pm

Free Word Lecture Theatre

The Literary Consultancy is delighted to invite back The Tamesis Quartet and Edie Campbell for an unforgettable evening celebrating passion and love – with a hint of danger.

The Tamesis string quartet, featuring highly acclaimed violinists Nadia Myerscough and Anna de Bruin, Matthew Quernby on viola and cellist Christopher Allan, stunned us with their performance of works by Debussy and Satie earlier in the year. Now they will perform two exquisite works by Leoš Janáček. The String Quartet No. 1, Kreutzer Sonata, inspired by Leo Tolstoy‘s novella The Kreutzer Sonata which was in turn inspired by Beethoven‘s Violin Sonata No. 9, known as the Kreutzer Sonata after the violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer who first performed the piece. Janáček’s powerful String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters, also known as the composer’s manifesto on love, was written to his muse and beloved Kamila Stösslová, the young wife of an antique dealer from Písek, who greatly influenced the composer’s last period of productivity. Together these pieces create an inimitable atmosphere of tension, beauty and taut love.

Edie Campbell performed the sell-out performance of her one woman show Emily Dickinson and I: The Journey of a Portrayal for TLC in March this year. Here she will read from the work of Tolstoy, Ted Hughes and Leo Janacek to help locate and heighten this unique event.

Devised by Rebecca Swift of The Literary Consultancy and Jack Lynch of LynchPin Productions.

6.30 (drinks) performance at 7pm.

For more information please email TLC at info@literaryconsultancy.co.uk.