Artists
- Cuarteto Casals
- Abel Tomàsviolin
- Vera Martínez-Mehnerviolin
- Cristina Cordero Beltránviola
- Arnau Tomàscello
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Cuarteto Casals
Image credit: © Pablo Rodrigo
Bach, Shostakovich and Turina
Cuarteto Casals
- Date
- Mon 12 Jan 2026, 1.00pm
- Tickets
- £18 (concessions £16)
- Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Ticket bookings are subject to a £4.00 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket
Programme
- Johann Sebastian Bach1685-1750
- Art of Fugue BWV1080:
- Contrapunctus 1
- Contrapunctus 4
- Contrapunctus 6
- Contrapunctus 9
- Joaquín Turina1882-1949
- La oración del torero Op. 34
- Dmitry Shostakovich1906-1975
- String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73
Overview
Four intricate fugues by JS Bach, supreme masterworks of the genre, and Turina’s The Bullfighter’s Prayer, originally conceived in 1925 for a quartet of Spanish lutes, provide evocative companions to Shostakovich’s Third String Quartet in Cuarteto Casals’s absorbing programme. The Spanish ensemble ends with the emotionally complex fifth movement of the Soviet composer’s 1946 score, widely regarded as a reaction against tyranny.
