Artists
- Borodin Quartet
- Date
- Sat 18 Apr 2015, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Borodin Quartet 70th Anniversary Series
Programme
- Dmitry Shostakovich1906-1975
- String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68
Interval
- Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827
- Razumovsky Op. 59 No. 2
Overview
Interior worlds open up in Shostakovich’s Second String Quartet, completed in September 1944. The work probes dark shadows of the mind, conjured up most vividly in its dissonant waltz and final Theme and Variations.
Beethoven’s second ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, meanwhile, uses silence and unexpected harmonic shifts to pull the listener deep into mysterious imaginative territory.
The series continues with 8 further concerts in the 2015 /16 and 2016/17 Seasons