Archived Event

Beethoven and Matan Porat
Cuarteto Casals
Date
Mon 11 Sep 2017, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Cuarteto Casals

    Programme

    Interval

    1. Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

    Overview

    Cuarteto Casals’s Beethoven Cycle opens with a workknown above all for the melancholy slow introductionto its finale and continues with the composer’sconcise final string quartet.

    Israeli pianist andcomposer Matan Porat’s new quartet offers a freshway to approach the meditative focus of the StringQuartet in A minor Op. 132, completed followingBeethoven’s recovery from serious illness in 1825.

    This concert is part of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust ticket scheme, offering free tickets to those aged 8-25

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