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Bartók
Heath Quartet
Date
Fri 13 May 2016, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Heath Quartet

    Programme

    • Béla Bartók
      1881-1945
        • String Quartet No. 2 BB75 Op. 17
        • String Quartet No. 4 BB95

    Interval

    Overview

    Bartók interrupted work on his Sixth Quartet on hearing news ofthe Nazi-Soviet pact in August 1939. He returned to it in the earlymonths of the Second World War, creating a composition all themore intense for its simplicity and sense of nostalgia.

    The HeathQuartet presents the piece in company with the Second Quartet,inspired by Bartók’s folk music studies, and the oceanic inventionof his Fourth Quartet.

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