Quartet Gerhard
Quartet Gerhard
Share
< Back

QUARTET GERHARD

Complete String Quartets By Dmitri Shostakovich (I)

Wednesday 03 August | 20:30 h
DURATION:  around 95 minutes and there will be one interval of 20 minutes
Finished
2022

Lluís Castán, violin | Judit Bardolet, violin | Miquel Jordà, viola | Jesús Miralles, cello

PROGRAMME

D. Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 5 in B flat major, Op. 92 / String Quartet no. 3 in F major, Op. 73

From his first string quartet, written in 1938, until his last, the fifteenth, composed in 1974, one year before his death, Dmitri Shostakovich authored one of the most extensive and significant series of string quartets of the 20th century. They are the true witness of a life that the composer was unable to express in his symphonies, which he was constrained to write in line with the political directives of the Soviet Union. It was in the quartets that Shostakovich was able to give free rein to his ideas, writing music full of contrasts, where we find joy and anguish, tenderness and violence, folk melodies and modernism. His whole life is condensed in these 15 quartets, all of which will be played by the Quartet Gerhard at the Torroella Festival over a 3-year period until 2024.

A co-production by the Torroella Festival and the San Sebastián Musical Fortnight

Generalitat de Catalunya
Generalitat de Catalunya
INAEM 2023
INAEM 2023
Diputació de Girona
Diputació de Girona
Ajuntament de Torroella de Montgrí
Ajuntament de Torroella de Montgrí
Estartit
Estartit
Patronat Turisme
Patronat Turisme
Cultura i identitat
Cultura i identitat
SteinWay&Sons
SteinWay&Sons
Jorquera Pianos
Jorquera Pianos
Club Nàutic Estartit
Club Nàutic Estartit
aie
aie
Gisela Graham
Gisela Graham