Artists
- Pavel Haas Quartet
- Date
- Sun 11 Feb 2018, 11.30am
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Antonín Dvořák1841-1904
- American Op. 96
- Bedřich Smetana1824-1884
- String Quartet No. 1 in E minor 'From my life'
Overview
A summer spent in Iowa’sbackwoods helped ease Dvořák’shomesickness and inspire his‘American’ Quartet, written duringthe Czech composer’s time inthe United States.
The PavelHaas Quartet pairs the work withanother profoundly personal score,Smetana’s autobiographical‘From my life’.