Archived Event

Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven
Navarra String Quartet
Date
Sun 09 Jul 2017, 11.30am
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
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  • Navarra String Quartet

    Programme

    Overview

    Beethoven applied the subtitle ‘Serioso’ to his Op. 95,a mark of its specific gravity and a reflection of thecomposer’s increasingly difficult personalcircumstances.

    The Navarra String Quartet prefacesBeethoven’s concise masterwork with twocompositions of contrasting emotions, opening withHaydn’s sonorous Op. 20 No. 2 before plunging intothe highly dramatic flow of Schubert’s Quartettsatz.

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