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Influence Church
Victoria Road
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 4AS
England
Programme
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet no.27 in D major, Op.20 no.4, Hob III:34
Philip Glass – String Quartet no.2 'Company'
Dmitry Shostakovich – String Quartet no.11 in F minor, Op.122
~ Interval ~
Anton Webern – Langsamer Satz
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in F minor 'Serioso', Op.95
Performers
Carducci Quartet
Programme Note
How many times have we had the Carducci Quartet? We think this must be their sixth visit to Richmond, and they are always a huge hit with our audiences. Superb musicians, personable, with an exceptional rapport, they are one of the finest string quartets around.
Tonight the Carduccis perform a generously proportioned concert. It includes a much-loved Haydn piece, one of the very first 'modern' string quartets, and Webern's highly charged Langsamer Satz, described as a "little masterpiece". Composed in 1905, Langsamer Satz was never publicly performed - astonishingly - until 1962, just a few years before Shostakovich's very different, very intense Quartet No. 11. The piece by Philip Glass is a companion to his Third Quartet, which the Carduccis performed in Richmond a few years ago, and which gave our audience such pleasure.
What a wonderful end to the season.