Sunshine & Shadows by Concordia Quartet

Concordia Quartet brings you music that is bathed in sunshine but has lurking shadows. Bask in the sunshine of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Sally Beamish’s String Quartet No. 2 ‘Opus California’ and savour Haydn’s playful String Quartet Op. 33 No. 5.

Outwardly Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 2 is a celebration of the USSR’s victory over Nazi Germany but written over nineteen days under Stalin’s shadow in an increasingly authoritarian and anti-Semitic Soviet regime Shostakovich adds subtle expressions of revulsion beneath the veneer of confidence.

PROGRAMME

Joseph Haydn

String Quartet op.33/5

Sally Beamish

String Quartet No.2 Opus California

Dmitri Shostakovich

String Quartet No.2

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