Artists
- Borodin Quartet
- Date
- Thu 17 Sep 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. 1 in C Op. 49
- String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor Op. 138
Interval
- Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827
- String Quartet in B flat Op. 130
Overview
‘In him’, the author Mikhail Zoshchenko observedof his friend and fellow poker-player, Shostakovich,‘there are great contradictions’.
The multiplestrands of the composer’s personality surface inhis String Quartet No. 13, an eerie and disturbingsingle-movement work. Its often bleak take on thehuman condition is offset by the Borodin Quartet’schoice of the composer’s lyrical First String Quartetand Beethoven’s all-encompassing Op. 130.
Supported by the Chamber Music Circle