Barbican Quartet at Conway Hall, London on Sunday 27th November 2022

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Barbican Quartet

Part of the Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, Autumn 2022 Season

Add to my Calendar 27-11-2022 18:30 27-11-2022 20:30 36 Barbican Quartet First prize winners of the 2019 Joseph Joachim International Chamber Music Competition as well as the 2018 St Martin in the Fields Chamber Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet are quickly establishing themselves internationally. For their Conway Hall début they offer a programme spanning over a century, from the 'Father of the String Quartet' Joseph Haydn to Béla Bartók. They conclude with Schumann's third quartet, dedicated to Mendelssohn and written in Schumann's 'chamber music year' which also saw the composition of his Piano Quartet and Quintet, as well as two further string quartets. Pre-concert talk with Robert Hugill at 5.30pm: The proud tradition of the Viennese string quartet ground seemed to grind to a halt after Brahms, but in other countries and other cultural traditions, the genre sprang to life in different ways. Bartok's six mature string quartets span his compositional life and represent a remarkably musical diary as we watch his style develop, alongside the complex iterations in what it meant to be a Hungarian in the first 50 years of the 20th century. These are works that have an important role in Conway's Hall history too.   About the Sunday Concerts Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains. Conway Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England

Sunday 27th November 2022
6:30 PM

Programme

Joseph Haydn – String Quartet no.40 in F major 'Dream', Op.50, no.5, Hob III:48
Béla Bartók – String Quartet no.4, Sz.91
Robert Schumann – String Quartet no.3 in A major, Op.41 no.3

Performers

Barbican Quartet

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Programme Note

First prize winners of the 2019 Joseph Joachim International Chamber Music Competition as well as the 2018 St Martin in the Fields Chamber Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet are quickly establishing themselves internationally. For their Conway Hall début they offer a programme spanning over a century, from the 'Father of the String Quartet' Joseph Haydn to Béla Bartók. They conclude with Schumann's third quartet, dedicated to Mendelssohn and written in Schumann's 'chamber music year' which also saw the composition of his Piano Quartet and Quintet, as well as two further string quartets.

Pre-concert talk with Robert Hugill at 5.30pm:

The proud tradition of the Viennese string quartet ground seemed to grind to a halt after Brahms, but in other countries and other cultural traditions, the genre sprang to life in different ways. Bartok's six mature string quartets span his compositional life and represent a remarkably musical diary as we watch his style develop, alongside the complex iterations in what it meant to be a Hungarian in the first 50 years of the 20th century. These are works that have an important role in Conway's Hall history too.

About the Sunday Concerts

Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains.

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