Details
Kings Place
90 York Way
Kings Cross
London
N1 9AG
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet no.16 in E flat major, K.428/421b
Sergei Aslamazian – Armenian Songs and Dances
Aram Khachaturian – Double Fugue for string quartet
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115
Performers
Chilingirian Quartet
Programme Note
The Chilingirian Quartet perform two classical masterworks: Mozart’s beautiful E-flat quartet, and with Andrew Marriner, the ever-popular Clarinet Quintet by Johannes Brahms. In between, comes music from Armenia: a selection of Songs and Dances by Soghomon Soghomonian, known as Komitas, the Ottoman-Armenian priest, composer and musicologist, in arrangements for a quartet made by Soviet Armenian composer Sergei Aslamazian. This is paired with the fugal quartet by another famous Soviet Armenian, Aram Khachaturian.
