The Castle, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DG. Doors open 7.00pm. Bar.

Schubert’s C Major String Quintet takes centre stage in the company of Eastern European traditional music, ZRI style.

Tickets: tba

Jon Banks Ben Harlan Max Baillie Iris Pissaride Matthew Sharp

Programme

Franz Schubert:  String Quintet in C major, Op. 163, D956:  1. Allegro ma non troppo

Ukrainian trad.:  Frelekhs

Hungarian trad.:  Cristinel

Romanian trad.:  Hora din Budesti

Franz Schubert:  String Quintet - Allegro ma non troppo continued

Mishka Ziganoff/Ukranian trad:  Dus Zekele mit Koilen

Naftule Brandwein/Ukranian trad.:  Terkishe Yale V’Yove Tantz

Franz Schubert:  String Quintet:  2. Adagio

Belf/Moldavian trad.:  Bolgarski Zhok

Franz Schubert:  String Quintet:  Adagio continued

Franz Schubert:  String Quintet:  3. Scherzo

Hungarian trad.:  Sarba de la Furculesti

Franz Schubert:  Der Leiermann

Franz Schubert:  String Quintet: Scherzo continued

Carpathian trad.: Wedding improvisation:  Doina

Joe Moscowitz/Ukranian trad.:  Sadigurer Chusid

Franz Schubert:  String Quintet:  4. Allegretto

Abe Schwartz/Romanian trad.:  Unser Tairele

Naftule Brandwein/Ukranian trad.:   Oi Tate, S’is Gut

Franz Schubert:  String Quintet:  Allegretto concluded

The quintet takes its name from the Red Hedgehog Tavern in Vienna, Zum Roten Igel, where folk, including Schubert and Brahms, would go and hear the Gypsies play. Beginning with their radical re-scoring of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet to include accordion and santouri (dulcimer), ZRI has developed equally captivating programmes which re-imagine Schubert’s great C major quintet, adventure with Charlie Chaplin, and waltz with Schoenberg. The group has performed at major festivals across the UK and abroad and has made critically-acclaimed discs of both the Schubert and Brahms Quintets. Their latest album ‘Cellar Sessions’ is released by First Hand Records.

With musical bonds and friendships stretching back into early childhood, ZRI formed under the direction of clarinettist Ben Harlan. Following launch concerts in 2011 ZRI has toured the UK extensively with its unique versions of both the Brahms and Schubert quintets, releasing its debut disc in 2014. Alongside other major festivals, ZRI has performed at Henley, York, Guildford International, Swaledale and Kings Place. In addition to their Brahms and Schubert programmes ZRI has its Cellar Sessions, a fiery selection of classical and Gypsy favourites as might have been heard at the eponymous Red Hedgehog Tavern. ZRI also tours its own live score to Charlie Chaplin’s early classic ‘The Adventurer’, and made its debut performance of Janáček’s Kreutzer Sonata on Swiss National Radio last Summer.