Artists
- Jean-Guihen Queyrascello
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Jean-Guihen Queyras
Image credit: © Artūrs Kondrāts
- Date
- Thu 24 Sep 2020, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Ahmet Adnan Saygun1907-1991
- Partita for solo cello Op. 31
- Benjamin Britten1913-1976
- Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87
- Zoltán Kodály1882-1967
- Sonata for solo cello Op. 8
Encore
- György Kurtágb. 1926
- Signs, Games and Messages:
- Árnyak
Overview
Jean-Guihen Queyras focuses on the large catalogue of works for solo cello, including a major work by Benjamin Britten (his final cello suite) alongside Kodály’s 1915 sonata with influences from Debussy, Bartók and Hungarian folk music and a 1955 work by Saygun.