What we now recognize as the string quartet spent most of its early years in the drawing room, and only in the 19th century did established groups begin presenting public concerts with any regularity
Date/Time: Jan 13 2018, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Vancouver, Christ Church CathedralCost: $52.00
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Pre-concert talk at 6:45
Toronto’s Eybler Quartet brings to life the relatively obscure music of Vanhal and Asplmayr, early apostles of this genre, and trace a line to the treasured works of Haydn and Beethoven that became the backbone of the string quartet repertoire for generations to come.
Programme
FRANZ ASPLMAYR (1728-1796)
Quartet in D, Op. 2 No. 2 (publ 1769)
Vivace
Minuetto
Andante cantabile
Allegro ma poco
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL (1739-1813)
Quartet in C, Op. 6 No. 3 (c 1770-1)
Allegro
Andante
Presto
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN (1723-1809)
Quartet in B minor, Op. 33 No. 1 (Hob.III:37)(1781)
Allegro moderato
Scherzo: Allegro di molto
Andante
Finale: Presto
INTERVAL
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
String Quartet in D, Op. 18 No. 3 (1798-1800)
Allegro
Andante con moto
Allegro
Presto
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