Saturday 22 January 2022 1:00PM
Carducci String Quartet
Shostakovich
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Archived
- Carducci String Quartet
- Matthew Denton violin
- Michelle Fleming violin
- Eoin Schmidt-Martin viola
- Emma Denton cello
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.
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Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
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String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49
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String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68
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String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49
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- Interval
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String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73
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String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83
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