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Jerusalem Quartet
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Archived Event

Shostakovich

Jerusalem Quartet

Date
Sun 23 Feb 2025, 7.30pm
Tickets
Archived Event
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Artists

  • Jerusalem Quartet
    • Alexander Pavlovskyviolin
    • Sergei Breslerviolin
    • Ori Kamviola
    • Kyril Zlotnikovcello

Programme

Interval

Overview

Shostakovich has been central to the Jerusalem Quartet’s repertoire for almost thirty years, reflected in multiple performances and critically acclaimed recordings of the Soviet composer’s fifteen string quartets. The quartet launches their keenly awaited Shostakovich cycle at Wigmore Hall with a survey of six works marked by the repercussions of political repression, war and personal tragedy.

‘In mood it is joyful, merry, lyrical,’ Shostakovich wrote of his First Quartet. ‘I would call it “spring-like”,’ he concluded. It makes a strong contrast with the Third Quartet, in which the composer honours the victims of war and Stalin’s Great Terror.

This concert is supported by The Marchus Trust

This concert is part of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust ticket scheme, offering free tickets to those aged 8-25

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