Artists
- Atrium Quartet
- Date
- Thu 26 Mar 2015, 7.00pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours 30 minutes in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Aleksandr Porfiryevich Borodin1833-1887
- String Quartet No. 1 in A
- Dmitry Shostakovich1906-1975
- String Quartet No. 12 in D flat major Op. 133
Interval
- Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827
- String Quartet in A minor Op. 132
Encore
- Dmitry Shostakovich1906-1975
- 2 pieces for string quartet:
- I. Elegy (after Katerina's Aria from Scene 3 of 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District' Op. 29)
Overview
Founded in St Petersburg in 2000, the Atrium Quartet confirmed its exceptional promise three years later as winner of the London International String Quartet Competition.
The ensemble’s close association with the music of Shostakovich is reflected in this programme, which sets the composer’s ground-breaking Twelfth String Quartet in company with the contrapuntal complexities of Borodin’s First String Quartet and transcendent spiritual qualities of Beethoven’s late String Quartet in A minor.