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Artists
- Carducci String Quartet
- Matthew Dentonviolin
- Michelle Flemingviolin
- Eoin Schmidt-Martinviola
- Emma Dentoncello
- Date
- Sat 22 Jan 2022, 1.00pm
- Tickets
- Archived Event
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Dmitry Shostakovich1906-1975
- String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49
- String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68
Interval
- Dmitry Shostakovich1906-1975
- String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73
- String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83
Overview
Shostakovich suggested that his First Quartet ‘visualized childhood scenes, somewhat naïve and bright moods associated with spring’ while the Second is a wartime work, written at Ivanovo in 1944. The composer gave the Third (1946) a kind of wartime programme: ‘blithe ignorance of the future cataclysm -- rumblings of unrest and anticipation -- forces of war unleashed -- in memory of the dead -- the eternal question: why? and for what?’ The Fourth Quartet (1949) is based on Jewish themes.
This concert is part of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust ticket scheme, offering free tickets to those aged 8-25
