Turicum Quartet / Menuet of the witches
Date & Time
Thu, Oct 3, 2024, 19:30Joseph Haydn has been called “Papa Haydn”, both affectionately and pejoratively. Meanwhile, he was a composer whose mastery and unpredictability went hand in hand. Let us appreciate the emotional glimmering of the music, its surprising turns, sense of humour (the “menuet of the witches” quite unlike the court dance), or the finale inspired by music of the Romani people living in the borderlands of Austria and Hungary, where the composer spent most of his life. The spirit of Austria-Hungary is... Read full text
Keywords: Chamber Music, Subscription Concert
Musicians
Turicum Quartet |
Program
String Quartet in D minor “Fifths” op. 76 No. 2 Hob. III:76 | Joseph Haydn |
Five pieces for string quartet | Erwin Schulhoff |
String Quartet No. 1 in C major op. 37 | Karol Szymanowski |