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Haydn, Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Schubert
Kuss Quartet
Date
Thu 07 Apr 2016, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Kuss Quartet

    Programme

    • Joseph Haydn
      1732-1809
        • The Joke 38
        • Seven Last Words of Christ 50
    • Harrison Birtwistle
      1934-2022
        • 9 Movements For String Quartet
          :
        • Fantasia 1
        • Fantasia 3
        • Frieze 2

    Interval

    Encore

    Overview

    Experiment and risk-taking belong to the KussQuartet’s artistic outlook. The ensemble’sprogramming reflects its determination to breakdown barriers between different periods of musichistory, past and present.

    This concert offers achance to hear the Berlin-based quartet’s artistryin masterworks by Haydn and Schubert as well asextracts from Birtwistle’s 9 Movements for StringQuartet, written between 1991 and 1996.

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