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Haydn, Komitas and Janácek
Hugo Wolf Quartett
Date
Sun 09 Jun 2019, 11.30am
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
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Artists

  • Hugo Wolf Quartett

    Programme

    • Joseph Haydn
      1732-1809
        • String Quartet in G minor Op. 20 No. 3 33
    • Komitas
      1869-1935
        • Armenian Folksongs
          :
        • She is slender like a plane tree (arranged by Sergey Aslamazyan)
        • Oh Nazan (arranged by Sergey Aslamazyan)
        • Echmiadzin dance (arranged by Sergey Aslamazyan)
        • Clouds (arranged by Sergey Aslamazyan)

    Overview

    Honouring the Austrian composerin their name, the 26-year-oldensemble’s programme includesan unusual item in transcriptionsof Armenian folk music by thepriest, musicologist and composerKomitas (1869-1935), also knownas Soghomon Soghomonian, apioneer collector of such material.

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