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Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 5
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Empowered by the great adagios of late Beethoven, Shostakovich’s quartet farewell is music for which isolation holds no terrors: five sombre Adagios (the composer’s instruction was to play so slowly ‘flies drop dead in mid-air’) plus a Funeral March. The Quartet No 7 remembers Shostakovich’s beloved first wife Nina, finally retreating into affectionate reminiscence, then grateful repose. First, though, comes the Quartet No 10 composed in 1963 whe...
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1 dates (29 May - 29 May)
May
29
Thu
7:30 pm
Milton Court Concert Hall
London, United Kingdom
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