Artists
- Carducci String Quartet
- Matthew Dentonviolin
- Michelle Flemingviolin
- Eoin Schmidt-Martinviola
- Emma Dentoncello
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Carducci String Quartet
Image credit: © Tom Barnes
Felix Mendelssohn and Philip Glass
Carducci String Quartet
- Date
- Sun 14 Mar 2027, 11.30am
- Tickets
- £20 (concessions £18)iincluding coffee/sherry/juice
- Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Philip Glassb. 1937
- String Quartet No. 9 ‘King Lear’
- Felix Mendelssohn1809-1847
- String Quartet No. 3 in D Op. 44 No. 1
Overview
Philip Glass composed what became his Ninth String Quartet as incidental music in 2019 for a Broadway production of Shakespeare’s King Lear starring Glenda Jackson in the title role. ‘I began picturing what it must have been like to see this piece for the first time in 1606,’ notes the composer. The Carducci String Quartet follows Glass’s imaginative steps through the five-movement concert version of his Lear music before diving headlong into the darting stream of energy that propels the opening of Mendelssohn’s Op. 44 No. 1.
Booking Information
Priority Booking for this event will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 16 September at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.
General sale for this event will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 29 September.
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