The Liverpool String Quartet in Hoylake: Pieces by Webern, Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvorak at St Hildeburgh's Church, Wirral on Friday 5th April 2019

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The Liverpool String Quartet in Hoylake

Pieces by Webern, Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvorak

Add to my Calendar 05-04-2019 19:30 05-04-2019 21:30 36 The Liverpool String Quartet in Hoylake Come and enjoy listening to the LSQ playing for the first time at this incredibly beautiful venue known for its wonderful acoustics! Shostakovich wrote his first string quartet in six weeks during the summer of 1938. He was almost 32, and a relative late comer to the Quartet genre, especially considering how many he would compose in the rest of his life. It was written shortly after his fifth symphony, yet has none of the symphony‘s bravura, in fact Shostakovich said of it ‘In mood it is joyful, merry, lyrical. I would call it ‘spring-like’. It was premiered by the Glazunov Quartet on 10 October 1938 in Leningrad. Dvorák's String Quartet No 12 in F Major Op 96, better known as the ‘American’ was written in 1893, while the composer was working in the United States. He wrote the quartet while on holiday, sketching the whole piece in just three days and completing it after a further thirteen. The quartet is characterised by the use of the pentatonic scale, a character that is frequently identified with folk music from all over the world. St Hildeburgh's Church, Wirral DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Hildeburgh's Church
Stanley Road
Hoylake
Wirral
Merseyside
CH47 1HL
England

Friday 5th April 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Anton Webern – Langsamer Satz
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet no.63 in B flat major 'Sunrise', Op.76 no.4, Hob III:78
~ Interval ~
Dmitry Shostakovich – String Quartet no.1 in C major, Op.49
Antonin Dvorak – String Quartet no.12 in F major 'American', Op.96

Performers

Roisin Walters – violin
Sarah Hill – violin
Daniel Sanxis – viola
Nick Byrne – Cello

Liverpool String Quartet

Programme Note

Come and enjoy listening to the LSQ playing for the first time at this incredibly beautiful venue known for its wonderful acoustics!

Shostakovich wrote his first string quartet in six weeks during the summer of 1938. He was almost 32, and a relative late comer to the Quartet genre, especially considering how many he would compose in the rest of his life. It was written shortly after his fifth symphony, yet has none of the symphony‘s bravura, in fact Shostakovich said of it ‘In mood it is joyful, merry, lyrical. I would call it ‘spring-like’. It was premiered by the Glazunov Quartet on 10 October 1938 in Leningrad.

Dvorák's String Quartet No 12 in F Major Op 96, better known as the ‘American’ was written in 1893, while the composer was working in the United States. He wrote the quartet while on holiday, sketching the whole piece in just three days and completing it after a further thirteen. The quartet is characterised by the use of the pentatonic scale, a character that is frequently identified with folk music from all over the world.

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