Quatuor Danel: Concerts and seminar
18 Sep 2012
Lunchtime Concert (27 September 2012) * Seminar (27 September) * Evening Concert (28 September).
Thursday 27 September 2012 (1.10pm)
Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert
Venue: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Admission Price: FREE
The University’s international star quartet-in-residence opens the new season with the modest birth of the string quartet, contrasted with its spectacular 1996 reinvention by one of the most prominent living Japanese composers under the influence of ‘speed metal rock’
Haydn – Quartet in C, Op.1 No.1 in B flat / Karen Tanaka – Metal Strings
Thursday 27 September 2012 (2.30pm)
Quatuor Danel Seminar
Venue: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Admission Price: FREE
Heavy metal and the avant-garde: an introduction to the quartets of Karen Tanaka and Iannis Xenakis.
Friday 28 September 2012 (7.30pm)
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert
Venue: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Admission Price: £13.50 / £8 / £3
The Danels’ first evening concert showcases their greatest strengths: the quartet in which the Polish-born adopted Soviet composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg found his mature voice, followed by a coruscating avant-garde classic, and the peerless profundity of Beethoven’s second ‘Razumovsky’.
Weinberg – Quartet No.3, Op.14 / Xenakis – Tetras / Beethoven – Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No.2