The revolutionary artists movement ‘Les Apaches’ (The Hooligans) was formed by Maurice Ravel and pianist Ricardo Viñes in 1903 - the same year the 28 year old composer completed his epic string quartet.
Amused when an intended insult “Attention, Les Apaches!" ("Watch out, Hooligans!") was shouted at the rowdy group of friends by a newspaper seller as they left the premiere of Debussy’s new opera, they decided to appropriate the epithet for themselves.
This groundbreaking collective of artists, musicians and writers met weekly in a studio in Montmartre, Paris, to share ideas and try out new works. Centred around Ravel’s mesmerising String Quartet this concert explores the richly evocative underworld of ‘Les Apaches’, inhabited by Ravel’s closest artist friends Manuel De Falla, Stravinsky, Satie and Debussy, as well as his teacher Gabriel Fauré, to whom Ravel dedicated his quartet.
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Programme to include…
Ravel - String Quartet in F major
Satie - Gnossienne
Stravinsky - Suite Italienne
De Falla - Ritual Fire Dance
Fauré - Sicilienne
Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
David Le Page (violin)
Catherine Leech (violin)
Errika Collins (viola)
Clare O’Connell (cello)