The New Zealand String Quartet return in their first appearance for Wellington Chamber Music since 2010.
The programme straddles the late Romantic era of the repertoire, starting with the second of Brahms’ pair of quartets of Opus 51, in A minor, a blend of lyricism with a propulsive, Hungarian dance-like finale. Composed 20 years later (1893) is the best-loved of Dvorák’s string quartets, the F major, Op 96, known as the ‘American’: his masterpiece.
Ross Harris, now retired from teaching at the Te Kökï New Zealand School of Music, is one of New Zealand’s most imaginative and arresting composers. His fifth string quartet, entitled ‘Songs from Childhood’, to be premiered at the 2013 Adam Chamber Music Festival in February, will attract great interest in our series.
The programme straddles the late Romantic era of the repertoire, starting with the second of Brahms’ pair of quartets of Opus 51, in A minor, a blend of lyricism with a propulsive, Hungarian dance-like finale. Composed 20 years later (1893) is the best-loved of Dvorák’s string quartets, the F major, Op 96, known as the ‘American’: his masterpiece.
Ross Harris, now retired from teaching at the Te Kökï New Zealand School of Music, is one of New Zealand’s most imaginative and arresting composers. His fifth string quartet, entitled ‘Songs from Childhood’, to be premiered at the 2013 Adam Chamber Music Festival in February, will attract great interest in our series.
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