Sunshine & Shadows by Concordia Quartet
Organised by: Resound CollectivePerformed by: Concordia Quartet
Synopsis:
Concordia Quartet brings you music that is bathed in sunshine but has lurking shadows. Bask in the sunshine of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Sally Beamish's String Quartet No. 2 'Opus California' and savour Haydn's playful String Quartet Op. 33 No. 5.
Outwardly Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2 is a celebration of the USSR's victory over Nazi Germany but written over nineteen days under Stalin's shadow in an increasingly authoritarian and anti-Semitic Soviet regime Shostakovich adds subtle expressions of revulsion beneath the veneer of confidence.
PROGRAMME
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet op.33/5
Sally Beamish
String Quartet No.2 Opus California
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No.2
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