Music

Sunshine & Shadows by Concordia Quartet

Organised by: Resound Collective Performed by: Concordia Quartet
  • Date:
    8 Mar 2025
  • Time:
    7:30pm
  • Duration:
    90mins with 20min intermission
  • Venue:
    Victoria Concert Hall
  • Language:
    English
  • Admission:
    $38/$28 via Book My Show
    15% discount for students / Senior citizens
  • Advisory:
    6 years and above

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