Artists
- JACK Quartet
- Date
- Mon 19 Jan 2015, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour 40 minutes in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Georg Friedrich Haasb. 1953
- String Quartet No. 8(UK première)
- Simon Holtb. 1958
Interval
- Elliott Carter1908-2012
- String Quartet No. 3
Overview
Modernism, post-modernism and the limitless scope of creative imagination are among the hallmarks of the JACK Quartet’s programme. It opens with Georg Friedrich Haas’s recently completed String Quartet No. 8, the latest in a remarkable series of works that examines the kaleidoscopic qualities of string sound. In addition to the polyrhythmic complexities and textural collisions of Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 3, a product of the early 1970s, the concert includes the world première of Simon Holt’s new work for string quartet – the latest addition to Wigmore Hall’s collection of ‘New British String Commissions’.
This concert is supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a donor advised fund at the London Community Foundation
This concert is part of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust ticket scheme, offering free tickets to those aged 8-25
London Community Foundation
