Beethoven in twilight and the Shostakovich Year

Although he had already established the Viennese quartet form in an earlier series, it is with his six works of Op. 20 that Haydn takes a significant leap forward, one so profound that he will not compose another quartet for a decade. The Quiroga Quartet opens its concert with the first of the collection. This is followed by a shift to Shostakovich's most popular quartet, No. 8, conceived after a visit to postwar Dresden, a fusion of the autobiographical and the political in a score of extreme anguish and drama. The program concludes with Beethoven's Op. 127, the first of his late works, which still retains the classical four-movement form but already introduces elements of visionary modernity and includes a movement with variations (the Adagio) of ineffable beauty.

Programme

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 20 No. 1 Hob. III:31

Dmitri Shostakovich: Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

Louis van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127

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