Details
The Forum - Malvern Theatres
Grange Road
Great Malvern
Malvern
Worcestershire
WR14 3HB
England
Programme
Thomas Adès – The Four Quarters (2010)
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet in A major, Op.3 no.6, Hob III:18
Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet no.6 in F minor, Op.80
Performers
Doric String Quartet
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Programme Note
The Doric String Quartet has firmly established itself as the leading British string quartet of its generation, receiving enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics across the globe. Selected for representation by the Young Classical Artists Trust in 2006, the Quartet went on to win several prizes including 1st prize at the 2008 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan, 2nd prize at the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Italy and the Ensemble Prize at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany.
The Quartet opens this programme with Thomas Adès’ The Four Quarters, a programmatic work in four movements that depicts the flow of a day, offering a wide range of mood and texture. Of the Doric’s Haydn, the Sunday Telegraph said, ‘Haydn and the Doric are a perfect match …. Unequivocally, these were performances of terrific panache and perception, seeming to get right under the skin of Haydn’s creative genius.’ The programme concludes with one of Mendelssohn's string quartets, part of the set of three string quartets dedicated to the Crown Prince of Sweden.