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Mozart, Vine and Brahms
Takács Quartet
Date
Sun 12 Nov 2017, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Takács Quartet

    Programme

    • Carl Vine
      b. 1954
        • String Quartet No. 6 'Child's Play'
          (European première)

    Interval

    Overview

    Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists pair the first ofMozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets, a composition writtenwith the chamber music-loving, cello-playing Frederickthe Great in mind, with a new work by the Australiancomposer Carl Vine. The folk-inspired melodies andsoaring lyricism of Brahms’s third string quartet occupythe concert’s second half.

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