Bennewitz Quartet

Performers

Bennewitz Quartet

Programme

Haydn

String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’

Schnittke

String Quartet No. 3

Dvorák

String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106

About this concert

The Prague-based Bennewitz Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall with a strikingly imaginative programme, opening with a musical joke and concluding with a profound masterwork.

While Dvorák’s Op. 106 explores vibrant emotional and musical contrasts, Alfred Schnittke weaves together fragments borrowed from other composers in his Third String Quartet with which to draw listeners deep into the work’s concentrated soundworld. Schnittke’s score, complete with loud echoes of Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, has entered the chamber music repertoire since its first performance almost three decades ago.