MF14 Pavel Haas Quartet
Warmth, intensity, and fearless confidence
Assembly Rooms
MENURanked by BBC Music Magazine as one of the 10 greatest string quartets of all time, the Czech ensemble undoubtedly represents the finest of their homeland’s musical tradition: warmth, intensity, sonorousness and fearless confidence.
Their Bath programme starts with Haydn’s ambitious String Quartet Op 76 No 1, fiery, inventive and deviating from the standard sonata form. Then, via Prokofiev’s wartime second string quartet with its exotic folk influences from the Kabardino- Balkar region of the Caucasus to which the composer was evacuated in 1941, before finally to Schubert’s posthumously published lyrical final quartet. A cleverly textured programme sure to fascinate and delight.
Performers & Performances:
Veronika Jarušková: violin
Marek Zwiebel: violin
Luosha Fang: viola
Peter Jarušek: cello
Haydn: String Quartet in G major Op 76 No 1
Prokofiev: String Quartet No 2 in F major Op 92
Schubert: String Quartet No 15 in G major D 887