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Shostakovich
Hagen Quartet
Date
Sat 29 Apr 2017, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Hagen Quartet

    Programme

    • Dmitry Shostakovich
      1906-1975
        • String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73
        • String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major Op. 142

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    Overview

    Any list of the world’s leading chamber ensembleswould be incomplete without the Hagen Quartet,decisive in its contributions to the modern history ofstring quartet playing.

    The group turns toShostakovich for its latest Wigmore Hall concert,opening with the composer’s post-war reflections onthe victims of tyranny and embracing his elegiacfinal quartets.

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