Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 1
- 7.30pm
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- Category:
- Classical Music
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- from £15
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
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Marking 50 years since the composer’s death, the Carducci Quartet inaugurates a five-concert odyssey through the complete string quartets – works that enshrine his inner life, loves and closest friendships.
‘Childhood scenes, somewhat naïve, and bright moods associated with spring’ is how Shostakovich characterised his string quartet debut, a distraction from the political manoeuvrings that would still haunt the 5th quartet, whose coded defiance to Stalin also references the Clarinet Trio by his friend and sometime pupil Galina Ustvolskaya - performed in this programme by Guildhall School musicians.
While the fifth quartet is dedicated to the Beethoven Quartet, who premiered so many of these works, the ninth was for his third wife, Irina Antonovna, who had shared his experience of being evacuated to Kuybyshev. This quartet also resonates with the horrors of the Stalinist purges, but the gallop from Rossini’s William Tell rides to the rescue.
Concert presented by the Barbican
Programme & performers
Shostakovich Quartet No 1
Shostakovich Quartet No 5
Ustvolskaya Clarinet Trio
Shostakovich Quartet No 9
Carducci Quartet
Sonoro Quartet
Guildhall School musicians
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
