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Manchester Jewish Museum
190 Cheetham Hill Road
Cheetham Hill
Manchester
M8 8LW
England
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet no.6 in F minor, Op.80
Mieczyslaw Weinberg – String Quartet No.16 in A-flat Minor, Op.130 (1939)
Performers
Quatuor Danel
Programme Note
The Quatuor Danel was founded in 1991 and has been at the forefront of the international music scene ever since, with important concert performances worldwide and a row of groundbreaking CD recordings.
The quartet is famous for their bold, concentrated interpretations of the string quartet cycles of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Shostakovich, and Weinberg. Their lively and fresh vision on the traditional quartet repertoire has delivered them subsequent praise from public and press.
During Synagogue Nights they will perform two well-known pieces:
The first one will be Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No.6 in F Minor, Op.80, which was the composer’s last major piece, completed just two months before his death in 1847. It was written in tribute to his sister, the composer Fanny Mendelssohn, who herself died earlier that year.
The second piece will be Mieczysław Weinberg’s String Quartet No.16 in A-flat Minor, Op.130. In 1939, Weinberg and his sister Ester fled from the Nazi invasion of Warsaw to the USSR. Mieczysław went on, Ester turned back. The two would never see one another again. The Weinberg’s Quartet No.16 was written in memory of his sister in 1981.
The Quatuor Danel will be introduced by The University of Manchester’s resident Mendelssohn expert, Professor Thomas Schmidt.
About the Quatuor Danel
The Quatuor Danel are a French string quartet. They have been artist-in-residence at The University of Manchester since 2005, where they coach and collaborate with world-renowned musicologists. Since 2015, they also teach regularly at the Netherlands String Quartet Academy in Amsterdam. Russian composers have a special place in the quartet’s repertoire. They were the first quartet to record the 17 quartets by Mieczysław Weinberg.
