Monday 28 September 2020 1:00PM
Carducci String Quartet
Haydn, Glass and Shostakovich
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This concert was live-streamed as part of the Wigmore Hall Autumn Series. The video is no longer online but other concerts are available to watch in full here: Wigmore Hall Concert Video Library
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- Carducci String Quartet
Philip Glass composed his second string quartet 17 years after his first, although it was initially conceived not as chamber music, but for theatre – a piece of instrumental music for Fred Neumann's adaptation of Samuel Beckett's 1979 novella Company, hence its alias. The Carducci String Quartet precede the work with Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 2 (nicknamed for Haydn’s wrong-footing his audience) and follow with Shostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet, influenced by the famous gallop from Rossini’s William Tell Overture.
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Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
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- String Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2 'The Joke'
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Philip Glass (b.1937)
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- String Quartet No. 2 'Company'
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Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
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- String Quartet No. 9 in E flat Op. 117
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