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Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
England
Programme
Leoš Janáček – String Quartet no.1 'Kreutzer Sonata'
Clara Iannotta – A Failed Entertainment
Béla Bartók – String Quartet no.5, Sz.102
Performers
Yun-Peng Zhao – violin
Léo Marillier – violin
Franck Chevalier – viola
Pierre Morlet – Cello
Quatuor Diotima
Programme Note
The winner of the European Cultural Heritage Award in 2018, Quatuor Diotima is well known to York audiences for its fresh insights into the music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, Janáček’s String Quartet no. 1 was composed in just two weeks in the October of 1923. Bartok’s lyrical and highly chromatic String Quartet no. 5 uses symmetrical and arch-like forms to create unity and balance, and Italian composer Clara Iannotta’s powerful work A Failed Entertainment was written for and first performed by Quatuor Diotima in 2013.
