The Quatuor Danel was founded in 1991 and has been at the forefront of the international music scene ever since. Russian composers have a special place in the quartet’s repertoire – they were the first, for example, to record all 17 of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s stunning string quartets, single-handedly leading the revival of the composer’s music. They have also championed the string quartets by Shostakovich and recorded benchmark interpretations of Shostakovich’s quartets.

The all-Russian programme for this concert includes Weinberg’s spirited Quartet No.9 in F-sharp Minor; Lera Auerbach’s 2011 Quartet No.5, “Songs of Alkonost”, inspired by a mythical woman-headed bird; and Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No.3 in E-flat Minor, his final quartet and a poignant tribute to Ferdinand Laub, whom Tchaikovsky called “the best violinist of our time.”

Programme:

Weinberg: String Quartet No.9 in F-sharp minor, Op.80
Lera Auerbach: String Quartet No.5, ‘Songs of Alkonost’
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No.3 in E-flat minor, Op.30

QUATOUR DANEL
Vlad Bogdanas, viola
Marc Danel, violin
Yovan Markovitch, cello
Gilles Millet, violin