Chamber Music
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Amphithéâtre - Cité de la musique
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Duration: about
1h40
Program
Joseph Haydn
Quatuor à cordes op. 20 n° 1
John Adams
String Quartet n° 2
(création française)
Leoš Janácek
Quatuor à cordes n° 1 "Sonate à Kreutzer"
Joseph Haydn
Quatuor à cordes op. 20 n° 2
Distribution
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Geoff Nuttall, violin
Owen Dalby, violin
Lesley Robertson, viola
Christopher Costanza, cello
John Adam’s Second Quartet, first performed in January 2015 was specially written for the St. Lawrence String Quartet with whom the composer has collaborated for many years.The music develops out of small Beethovenian fragments - the Opus 110 and 111 Piano Sonatas, one of the variations from the Diabelli, which are then carried off to unknown territories.
Getting here
Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B
Address
221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris
