Live Music: Carducci Quartet & Anton Lesser | Life, Letters and Friendship
Sunday 10th March 2024, 3:00pm
Experience the intense emotional power of Shostakovich’s String Quartets. The Carducci Quartet paint an intimate portrait of the great composer through music and spoken word.
Shostakovich walked a delicate tightrope, balancing political pragmatism with personal expression against the backdrop of Josef Stalin’s tyrannical Soviet regime. For this concert, the composer’s music is interspersed with historical sources and letters from him to one of his closest friends. They are read by British actor Anton Lesser (Game of Thrones, Endeavour, The Crown). Together, they paint a fascinating picture of how music offered a much-needed emotional outlet in the most difficult of times.
Guiding you through the perilous politics and personal highs and lows are the
Carducci String Quartet
Matthew Denton, Michelle Fleming violin
Eoin Schmidt Martin viola
Emma Denton cello
Anton Lesser narrator
Shostakovich
A selection of movements from string quartets:
Polka – Two pieces for String Quartet (1931)
Muddle instead of Music (28th January 1936, Pravda)
Quartet No 1 in C, Op 49 – I. Moderato
Letters from Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman
Quartet No 2 in A, Op 68 – I. Overture: Moderato con moto
Zhdanov decree (1948)
Quartet No 4 in D, Op 83 – I. Allegretto
Recollections of a concert performance of Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 4
Quartet No 4 in D major, Op 83 – Il. Andantino
Telephone call with Stalin (March 1949)
Quartet No 7 in F sharp minor, Op 108 – I. Allegretto
Story of a friendship – Glikman
Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110 – I. Largo & II. Allegro molto
Interval
Story of a friendship – Glikman
Quartet No 10 in Ab major, Op 118 – Adagio
Story of a friendship – Glikman
Quartet No 11 in F minor, Op 122 – IV. Etude & V. Humoresque
Nikita Khrushchev, Declaration on Music in Soviet Society (March 8, 1963)
Quartet No 13 in Bb minor, Op 138 – Doppio movimento
Story of a friendship – Glikman
Quartet No 15 in E flat minor, Op 144 – VI. Epilogue: Adagio
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| Location: | Turner Sims Concert Hall Turner Sims |
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