Artists
- Meccore String Quartet
- Date
- Sun 19 Mar 2017, 11.30am
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Claude Debussy1862-1918
- String Quartet in G minor Op. 10
- Edvard Grieg1843-1907
- String Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 27
Encore
- Karol Szymanowski1882-1937
- String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 37:
- II. Andantino semplice - Scherzando alla burlesca
Overview
One of Poland’s finest young ensembles, foundedin 2007, returns to Wigmore Hall to perform twolate nineteenth-century masterworks.
Liszt greatlyadmired the adventurous spirit of Grieg’s StringQuartet in G minor, a composition recognised asa bridge connecting the worlds of Beethoven’s latequartets and Debussy’s own G minor Quartet.