Brodsky Quartet – Wimf

Date: November 14, 2022
Time: 7.30pm

Haydn: String Quartet Op. 54/2
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8
Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D.810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Haydn’s Op 54 No 2 has been called the ‘most extraordinary string quartet of the 18th century’.

Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ is a wondrous masterpiece, many people’s favourite string quartet of all.

Shostakovich’s iconic autobiographical Eighth represents his ‘Testament’, using the four-note motif DSCH, Dmitri Schostakowitsch.

Pre-Concert Talk (6.15pm):  Given by two members of the Brodsky Quartet, Paul Cassidy and Jacky Thomas