The Hungarian Connection

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PART OF BRAHMS AT THE RED HEDGEHOG WEEKEND
If you had turned up at the popular C19 Viennese tavern, 'Zum Roten Igel' ('The Red Hedgehog') - you might well have bumped in to Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn or Brahms, enjoying jokes, goulash, gypsy songs and general banter. This weekend's events explore the kinds of Hungarian music that Brahms might well have heard there. Come and explore how these influences found their way into his greatest works, not least his sublime Clarinet Quintet.
Event 2: The Hungarian Connection concert

Bunyan Meeting, Mill Street, Bedford MK40 2BU at 7.30pm

Alkyona String Quartet with Magdalenna Krstevska present compositions influenced by Hungarian popular music including Ernő Dohnányi's Serenade for String Trio in C major, Op.10 (1902), s selection from Bartók's 44 Duos for Two Violins and Brahms' Clarinet Quintet in b minor, Op.115 (1891).