Skampa Quartet

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Date:
18 October 2010 - 1:00pm

Ticket Prices:
£12 concs £10

Performers

Skampa Quartet

Programme

Shostakovich

String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122

Dvorák

String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106

About this concert

If Dvorák’s 13th quartet was written while the composer was ‘inexpressibly happy’ after returning to his Czech homeland from the USA, Shostakovich’s elegiac 11th quartet is coloured by a sad departure, that of Vasily Shirinsky, second violinist of the Beethoven Quartet, which had premièred so many of the composer’s earlier quartets.