...a fantastic performance of a great work...
(Andrew Buchanan-Smart, Waikato Times)
Haydn, Josef: Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise)
Bowater, Helen: this desperate edge of now
Li, Huanzhi: Spring Festival Overture
Speak, Jeroen: Auxetos
Strom, Kirsten: Kirsten Strom: Purity
Ligeti, György: String Quartet No 1 'Métamophoses nocturnes'
Lilburn, Douglas: Allegro for Strings
Lilburn, Douglas: Allegro for Strings
Lilburn, Douglas: String Quartet in E minor
Mendelssohn, Felix: String Quartet No 6 in F minor Op. 80
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Next concerts

Tuesday, January 22 2019, 8:00pm - 10:00pm, Zhongshan Culture & Arts Centre, Zhongshan, China

An introduction to the string quartet through the ages, from Baroque to the present day. Our programme includes excerpts from works by Vitali, Mozart, Beethoven, Ligeti, Tan Dun & Gareth Farr. It finishes with a complete performance of Beethoven String Quartet No 13 in B-flat major Op 130
Thursday, May 2 2019, 7:30pm - 9:30pm, Princes Gate Hotel, Arawa St, Rotorua

Our programme starts with Mozart's String Quartet No 17 in B-flat K458. Nicknamed 'The Hunt, this is a high-spirited, joyful work, both rustic and sophisticated. It continues with String Quartet No 1 'Métamorphoses nocturnes' by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. Described by one writer as “Bartok's seventh string quartet”, this colourful work is written in seventeen wonderfully contrasting sections played as one continuous movement. The concert finishes with Beethoven's profound String Quartet No 13 in B-flat major Op 130, a piece that explores the limits of what can be expressed in music. This concert takes place in the Nellie Bud Room.