Pavel Haas Quartet to perform Czech music at Norwich venue
Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 19 Oct, 07:01 · Archive
The Pavel Haas Quartet, rated among the ten greatest string quartets by BBC Music Magazine, will perform Czech music at Norwich on 25 October.
The Pavel Haas Quartet will perform at John Innes Centre Norwich on Sunday 25 October at 3pm as part of Norwich Chamber Music's new season. The quartet, founded in 2002, is rated by BBC Music Magazine as one of the ten greatest string quartets of all time.
The concert will feature music by Czech composers across three generations. The programme will include Janáček's first quartet from 1923, inspired by Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata. Czech folk elements and the St Wenceslas Chorale feature in Pavel Haas' third quartet of 1938, his last work for the medium. Haas, a Jewish composer, was deported to Terezín and murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.
Haas' quartet combines anxiety with resilience, incorporating Czech national identity through rhythmic vitality and Janáček-like intensity. The programme traces a thread through three generations of Czech musical tradition, to which composer Dvořák gave international prominence.
How it is being reported
- Blazing and globetrotting Czech-based string quartet coming to NorwichThe BBC Music Magazine rates the Czech-based Pavel Haas Quartet (founded in 2002 and named in honour of Czech composer, Pavel Haas) as one of the ten greatest string quartets of all time.Eastern Daily Press · 19 Oct, 06:07
- Blazing and globetrotting Czech-based string quartet coming to NorwichThe BBC Music Magazine rates the Czech-based Pavel Haas Quartet (founded in 2002 and named in honour of Czech composer, Pavel Haas) as one of the ten greatest string quartets of all time.Norwich Evening News · 19 Oct, 06:07
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