Artists
- Zahir Quartet
- Date
- Sun 03 Feb 2019, 11.30am
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Aleksandr Glazunov1865-1936
- Saxophone Quartet Op. 109
- Aleksandr Porfiryevich Borodin1833-1887
- String Quartet No. 2 in D(arranged by Guillaume Berceau for saxophone quartet)
Encore
- Maurice Ravel1875-1937
- Trois Chansons:
- Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis
Overview
Helping to raise the status oftheir instrument to new heights,four musicians – who met at theParis Conservatoire – performan arrangement of Borodin’spopular Second Quartet, followedby Glazunov’s 1932 work, whichincludes movements in the stylesof Chopin and Schumann.
Coffee for the Sunday Morning Concert Series is generously provided by Café de Colombia