Barbican Quartet & Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill

Barbican Quartet & Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill

Sunday, 27 November 2022, 5.30pm

Barbican Quartet • 6.30pm

First prize winners of the 2019 Joseph Joachim International Chamber Music Competition, as well as the 2018 St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet are quickly establishing themselves internationally.

For their Conway Hall début they offer a programme spanning over a century, from the “Father of the String Quartet” Joseph Haydn to Béla Bartók. They conclude with Schumann’s third quartet, dedicated to Mendelssohn and written in Schumann’s ‘chamber music year’ which also saw the composition of his Piano Quartet and Quintet, as well as two further string quartets.

Amarins Wierdsma (violin)
Kate Maloney (violin)
Christoph Slenczka (viola)
Yoanna Prodanova (cello)

Programme:

Haydn | Quartet in F ‘The Dream’ Op.50/5
Bartók | Quartet No.4 in C Sz.91
Schumann | Quartet No.3 Op.41/3

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Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill • 5.30pm

The proud tradition of the Viennese string quartet sprang to life across many countries and cultural traditions. Bartok’s six mature string quartets span his whole compositional life and represent a remarkable musical diary as we watch his style develop, alongside the complex iterations in what it meant to be a Hungarian in the first half of the 20th century. These are works that have an important role in Conway’s Hall history too.

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About Conway Hall Sunday Concerts

Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains.

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Published by Conway Hall on 4 October 2022

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