Archived Event

Beethoven and Shostakovich
Borodin Quartet
Date
Tue 15 Sep 2015, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Availability

Borodin Quartet 70th Anniversary Series

Artists

  • Borodin Quartet

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    Overview

    Written soon after the death of Josef Stalin, Shostakovich’s Fifth String Quartet explores complexemotions and profound reflections on the nature of melancholy. The composition, central to theBorodins’ repertoire for six decades, is prefaced here by two early Beethoven masterworks, thewitty and exuberant G major String Quartet and the expansive String Quartet in C minor, bothcreated around 1800.

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