SYNOPSIS

Travel and romance have long inspired some of the greatest works. Fresh from their concert tour of Malaysia, Concordia Quartet presents a travelogue of Romantic works written while their composers were away from home.

The programme features Dvořák’s ‘American’ quintet, which incorporates the sights and sounds he experienced when he saw a Native American traveling circus, and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op. 44 No. 2, written while the composer was on honeymoon in the Black Forest.

The night is topped off by Schubert’s Quartettsatz, a work so exquisite and complete that some scholars believe Schubert deemed it needed no additional movements.

Violist Andrew Filmer from Malaysia joins the quartet members in the Dvořák String Quintet.

PROGRAMME

Franz Schubert
String Quartet in C minor, D.703 (String Quartet No.12, Quartettsatz)

Antonín Dvořák
String Quintet No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97, B180

Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2 

Programme duration ~ 90 min with 20 min intermission

Concordia Quartet performed Schubert’s Quartettsatz during their inaugural concert in 2020. Come hear them again this time, and see how they have transformed since their debut.