Quatuor Hanson

The Hanson Quartet entertained us last year with a concert in which the twentieth century engaged in conversation with the First Vienna School. They are reprising this format this morning with two composers who are often compared. We will hear Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 4 (1949), composed at a time when most of his catalogue had just been banned by the regime. The quartet will then explore Beethoven’s huge Fourteenth in which Wagner detected by turn “the most melancholy thing ever expressed in music”, a “consultation held with God”, and the “dance of the world: unbridled pleasure, a sorrowful complaint, the ecstasy of love, supreme bliss, moaning, fury, voluptuousness and suffering […]”. Quite an agenda. 

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