Artists
- Rolston String Quartet
- Date
- Sun 06 Jan 2019, 11.30am
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Joseph Haydn1732-1809
- String Quartet in B flat Op. 76 No. 4 'Sunrise' 78
- Johannes Brahms1833-1897
- String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Encore
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840-1893
- Album pour enfants Op. 39:
- I. Prière du matin (arranged by Rostislav Dubinsky)
Overview
The Rolston String Quartet won the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC), and were listed in 2016 among CBC’s '30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians under 30’. Here they pair thefourth of Haydn’s Op. 76 set –named after its striking openinggesture – with the second ofBrahms’s first published opus inthe genre.
Coffee for the Sunday Morning Concert Series is generously provided by Café de Colombia