The Firm's Final 2014 Concert to Feature Langbein String Quartet, Marianna Grynchuk, 11/3

Four of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's finest string players, performing as The Langbein String Quartet, will join forces with young piano virtuoso, Marianna Grynchuk, and local accordion legend, Gareth Chin, to present the final concert in The Firm's 2014 season on November 3, 8pm, in Elder Hall.

The concert concludes this year's exploration of the waltz with luscious romantic arrangements by Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg of works by Johann Strauss II, the world premiere of new works by Raymond Chapman Smith and Quentin Grant, and a String Quartet by Luke Altmann.

The Langbein String Quartet, launched by The Firm in 2000, is named in recognition of the late South Australian born violinist, composer and new music exponent, Brenton Langbein. It comprises Adelaide Symphony Orchestra players: violinists Michael Milton and Emma Perkins, viola player Rosi McGowran and cellist David Sharp.

Together with this year's SA Young Virtuosi Winner, pianist Marianna Grynchuk, the quartet will premiere Quentin Grant's new work, Dances from Gotenica, which takes its name from a little village that was thriving in Hapsburg, Slovenia, at the time Strauss was writing his famous waltzes. "Sadly it is no more" explains Grant, "after six hundred years of settlement Gotenica was broken up by the Nazis and then the Soviets but, in our broken dreams, we could imagine that the ghosts of this lost town might write waltzes something like these."

Chapman Smith's new lovingly crafted Divertimento No. 5 seeks to soothe the senses in a time which the composer says is marred by "mean spiritedness and mendacity". "There are moments when a little tender diversion is necessary and hopefully efficacious."

In the spirit of the Austrian Ländler, from which the waltz evolved, the arrangements of Johann Strauss II's iconic Roses from the South and Wine, Women and Song will include the distinctive sound of the piano accordion played by Gareth Chin - well known as a member of Adelaide gypsy band, Golonka. "The part was actually written for harmonium because Alban Berg, who premiered these works in 1921, played that instrument but the accordion, in many respects, is truer to the form" says The Firm's director Quentin Grant.

"The concert promises to be a fabulous conclusion to our 2014 series" says Firm co-director Raymond Chapman Smith. Patrons are invited to join the composers and performers after the concert for delicious tortes, wine and conversation.

Tickets just $12 or $7 at the door or online http://www.trybooking.com/FKTM