Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Details

St Hildeburgh's Church
Stanley Road
Hoylake

Wirral
Merseyside
CH47 1HL
England


Programme

Anton WebernLangsamer Satz
Joseph HaydnString Quartet no.63 in B flat major 'Sunrise', Op.76 no.4, Hob III:78
~ Interval ~
Dmitry ShostakovichString Quartet no.1 in C major, Op.49
Antonin DvorakString 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.

The Liverpool String Quartet

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