String Quartet Cornwall
Leader : composer / violinist Sue Aston, with Mezzo Soprano Maria Heseltine and composer / Pianist Douglas Cook

 

The Aston String Quartet : Current Music Program

Three new pieces for String Quartet:

‘Theme from the Forbidden City’ for violin and piano by Sue Aston

‘Fern Hill’ and ‘London River’ for string quartet and voice by Douglas Cook, and ‘Reverie’ for violin and piano.

'Scenes from a Cornish Childhood' by Sue Aston
'Reverie' and 'Scherzo' by Ray Didcock

The Aston String Quartet also perform:
Humoresque op.101, no.7 by Dvorak
An Welen Scubel-Broomstick Dance traditional Cornish folk tune arranged by William McConnell.

Maria Heseltine is also accompanied by the Aston String Quartet for the performance of works by Barber, Warlock, and the ever popular 'Ave Maria' by Bach/Gounod.

'Madron' for solo violin by Sue Aston
'The Homecoming' for violin and piano by Sue Aston

Douglas Cook (Piano) performs his own composition, "Impromptu".

Maria and Douglas also perform works by Vaughan Williams, Faure and Dring.

 

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