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Brodsky Quartet

Shostakovich – Quartet No.10 in A-flat Op.118
Shostakovich – Quartet No.15 in E-flat minor Op.144

Introduced by Elizabeth Wilson, author of the book Shostakovich: A Life Remembered

Paul Cassidy, viola, writes: ‘Quartet No. 10 always strikes me as a little oasis. Whilst its outer movements remain eerily subdued, drained of hope and with little to prove, they do nonetheless serve to highlight two of the most striking movements in the whole set. The ‘Furioso’ second, with its 347 bars of unrelenting venom is arguably the most bitter of his tirades. This is followed by a particularly beautiful Passacaglia whose form is a bit of a Shostakovich trademark […] And so we come to Quartet No. 15. Frankly, what to say? This is the most intimate and profound commentary on the eternal question of life and death. The music is stripped back to its bare bones, perpetually alone. Only for one brief moment of its heavenly length do the four players collectively exist. The work is full of emotion, beauty, love, tragedy, humour – it’s all there, but expressed existentially by a mind which appears to be straddling that nebulous line between reality and the unknown.’

Tickets £21.50 – LCMS Friends discount applies

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Clock5.30pm (please note time) Sunday, 30th October 2022

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