Artists
- Aviv String Quartet
- Date
- Sun 24 May 2015, 11.30am
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Dmitry Shostakovich1906-1975
- String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68
- Johannes Brahms1833-1897
- String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1
Overview
Formed in Israel in 1997, the Aviv String Quartet received early coaching from some of the greatest names in chamber music-making, members of the Amadeus, Emerson and Juilliard string quartets among them.
The ensemble’s Coffee Concert explores the ironic nature of Shostakovich’s Second String Quartet, a wartime work rich in allusion to Jewish folk themes, and the tragic tone of Brahms’s First String Quartet.