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Matinee

with Doric String Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann

14:30 / Sat 3 Feb. / Grote Zaal Muziekgebouw / € 25,00

2024    Sat 3 Feb   
Doric String Quartet
Photo : George Garnier

Doric String Quartet

Alex Redington (violin)
Ying Xue (violin)
Hélène Clément (viola)
John Myerscough (cello)

Robert Schumann

String Quartet no. 3 op. 41

George Benjamin

Viola, Viola

Paul Hindemith

Sonate for viola solo op. 25 no. 1

Felix Mendelssohn

String Quintet no.1

Schumann and Mendelssohn met for the first time in 1835; Robert as a critic and budding composer, Felix as the chief conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and a composer with several successes to his name. The two twenty-year-olds developed a deep friendship, in which they not only promoted and performed each other’s works, but also played chamber music together, played chess and billiards.

An additional viola in a string quartet offers a huge advantage: you can program a viola duo. George Benjamin wrote Viola, Viola for Yuri Bashmet and Nobuko Imai, and wanted to emphasize the melancholic, intimate character of the viola in this composition. But along the way, he discovered more and more possibilities to elicit symphonic sounds from the eight strings. Viola, Viola could prove to be the most voluminous work of this concert.

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