Artists
- The Endellion String Quartet
- Date
- Fri 16 Jan 2015, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Joseph Haydn1732-1809
- String Quartet in D major Op. 76 No. 5 79
- Leoš Janáček1854-1928
- Kreutzer Sonata
Interval
- Franz Schubert1797-1828
- String Quartet in G D887
Overview
Schubert’s late G major String Quartet reveals its composer’s profoundly moving creative maturity. Symphonic in conception and proportions, it encompasses extreme contrasts of character and emotion to propel performers and listeners on a momentous journey.
More concentrated yet equally vast in expressive range, Janácek’s First String Quartet feels like an entire opera distilled into fifteen minutes. The programme opens with Haydn’s radiant String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5, among the first works learned by the Endellions thirty-fi
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