Madárdal – the title of Andrea Tarrodi’s Second Quartet – is Hungarian for birdsong. Tarrodi herself is half Swedish, half Hungarian so this Quartet features folk songs from each country, along with their birdsong. Dvořák’s famous Dumky Trio is a much-loved masterpiece with its quicksilver mood changes and succession of to-die-for tunes. Brahms described his C minor Piano Quartet as an illustration for the last chapter of Werther, the archetypal Romantic hero of German literature, who shoots himself because of his anguished love for a married woman whose husband he admires.
Programme
Composer | Work | Artist(s) |
---|---|---|
Andrea Tarrodi | String Quartet No.2 ‘Madárdal’ | Dahlkvist Quartet |
Dvořák | Piano Trio in E minor Op.90 ‘Dumky’ | Mairéad Hickey Emmanuelle Bertrand Izabella Simon |
Brahms | Piano Quartet No.3 in C minor Op.60 | Viviane Hagner Ellen Nisbeth Laura van der Heijden Dénes Várjon |
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