Shostakovich Cycle - T973361226Over three nights, the ensemble perform a cycle of Shostakovich's quartets, which contain some of the composer's most personal music. His quartets are often thought to make up virtually a musical autobiography and are full of contrasts: joy and anguish, folk melodies and angular modernism, tenderness and violence. | |
| 16 Mar 22 to 18 Mar 22 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1503600653 |
T1893703289Originally hailing from New York but immersed in music of all cultures, the Emerson Quartet is uniquely placed to interpret Dvorák's American Quartet and Quintet, which end their focus. Written alongside his New World Symphony, Dvorák viewed these works as musical postcards, capturing the essence of his time in Iowa. Dvorák explained that in these works he 'wanted to write something really melodious and simple', declaring: 'I should never have written these works "just so" if I hadn't seen America.'Performer Paul Neubauer (viola). | |
| 5 Mar 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01253516456 |
T1130242970It was these letters between himself and Kamila that Janácek enshrined in his Intimate Letters Quartet, which is at the heart of the Emerson Quartet's second concert in this series. So passionate were Janácek's feelings that he said the work had been written 'in fire', whereas earlier pieces were 'written only in hot ash.' The work is heard alongside two of Dvorák's Late Quartets, in the last of which Dvorák anticipates Janácek's style with his innovative approach to rhythm. | |
| 3 Mar 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1817911965 |
T01244750185The first concert in this series features works inspired by the rich tradition of Czech folk music. A quartet and piano quintet by Dvorak - both filled with Czech and Slavonic melodies - frame the programme, which also includes music by a later Czech composer, Janacek. The First String Quartet by Janacek is called The Kreutzer Sonata after a novella of the same name by Tolstoy. In a letter to Kamila Stosslova - the young woman who was the object of his desire later in life - Janacek wrote of the piece: 'I was imagining a poor woman, tormented and run down, just like the one the Russian writer Tolstoy describes in his Kreutzer Sonata.'Performer Menahem Pressler (piano). | |
| 2 Mar 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01759355730 |
T01424289661Beethoven's Serioso quartet is one of the shortest and most compact of all his string quartets. Written in 1810, Beethoven wrote the work was meant 'for a small circle of connoisseurs and should never be publicly performed', as he thought audiences of the time would not be ready for its dramatic, colourful style. | |
| 5 Mar 09 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L590009802 |
T952515900The American-based Emerson String Quartet perform four varied works, including one of Mozart's Prussian quartets, which shows the composer at his most melodic, with each of the four instruments treated as soloists by turn. The concert also contains Ravel's intensely lyrical quartet, dedicated to his teacher, Faure. | |
| 3 Mar 09 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0652674553 |
String Sextet with Paul Neubauer and Colin Carr - T0827471076 | |
| 3 Mar 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01410708633 |
Clarinet Quintet with Paul Meyer - T2054173905 | |
| 2 Mar 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L990796304 |
Piano Quintet with Gilbert Kalish - T140054930 | |
| 1 Mar 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1994505077 |
Shostakovich Focus - T01124982741The Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet performs all 15 of Shostakovich's string quartets in five concerts. These politically-charged pieces trace the course of Russian history, as well as milestones in the composer's personal life. | |
| 5 Mar 06 to 11 Mar 06 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L2069150965 |
Shostakovich Concert: Quartets 5 - T1871567789The final three quartets - Nos 13,14 and 15 | |
| 11 Mar 06 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0495623716 |
T1419233578The renowned [Emerson Quartet] performs Mendelssohn's complete works for string quartet, from the masterful originality of his teenage years to his passionate and tragic later works.Music Mendelssohn. | |
| 12 Mar 05 to 13 Mar 05 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L502392941 |
T0232332525Music Jean Town (Incandescednt). Music Beethoven (String Quartet in Eb Op 74). Music Shostakovich (String Quartet No 3 in F Op 73). | |
| 21 Nov 04 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L01126327142 |
T1882556386Music Janacek (Quartet no 1 Kreutzer Sonata). Music Smetana (Quartet no 1 in E minor From my Life). | |
| 18 Nov 02 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L410766597 |
Chamber Music Season - T0319295524Music Haydn (Quartet in G minor Op 20 No 3). Music Bartok (Quartet No 3 1927). Music Schubert (Quartet in D minor D810 - Death and the Maiden). | |
| 17 Nov 02 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L0822428889 |
T01530814753Music Shostakovitch (String Quartet No 13 in B flat minor Op 138; Quartet No 14 in F sharp Op 142; Quartet No 15 in E flat minor Op 144). | |
| 30 Apr 02 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L01068854506 |
25th Anniversary Celebrations - T5393710Music Beethoven (Razumovsky Quartets). | |
| 8 Nov 01 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1124492033 |
25th Anniversary Celebrations - T967184731Music Haydn (Quartets). | |
| 6 Nov 01 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1482520834 |
25th Anniversary Celebrations - T2077547444Music Bartok (Complete String Quartets Nos 1-6). | |
| 4 Nov 01 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1571607903 |
T01489040665Music Mendelssohn (String Quartet in A minor op 13). Music Kurtag (12 Microludes op 13). Music Beethoven (Quartet in B flat op 130 with Grosse Fuge op 133). | |
| 20 Mar 01 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L1772092478 |
T751228543BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime ConcertMusic Bartok (String Quartet no 4 1928). Music Brahms (Quartet in C minor op 51 no 1). | |
| 19 Mar 01 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L1019088182 |
T305424482Music Shostakovich (String Quartet no 13 in B flat minor op 138; Quartet no 14 in F sharp op 142; Quartet no 15 in E flat minor op 144). | |
| 21 May 00 | Barbican Centre, West End :: V371 listing details L483327877 |
T1865913364Music Shostakovich (String Quartet no 9 in E flat op 117; Quartet no 10 in A flat op 118; Quartet no 11 in F minor op 122; Quartet no 12 in D flat op 133). | |
| 19 May 00 | Barbican Centre, West End :: V371 listing details L2125729907 |
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| 29 Mar 03 | Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027 listing details L1357790546 |
