Wigmore Hall36 Wigmore Street, London, Greater London, W1U 2BP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
| Sunday 14 March 2027 | 11:30 |
Programme
| Glass, Philip (b. 1937) | Quatuor à cordes no. 9 « King Lear » | |
| Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) | String Quartet no. 3 in D major, Op.44 no. 1 |
Performers
| Carducci String Quartet | |
| Matthew Denton | Violin |
| Michelle Fleming | Violin |
| Eoin Schmidt-Martin | Viola |
| Emma Denton | Cello |
Philip Glass composed what became his Ninth String Quartet as incidental music in 2019 for a Broadway production of Shakespeare’s King Lear starring Glenda Jackson in the title role. ‘I began picturing what it must have been like to see this piece for the first time in 1606,’ notes the composer. The Carducci String Quartet follows Glass’s imaginative steps through the five-movement concert version of his Lear music before diving headlong into the darting stream of energy that propels the opening of Mendelssohn’s Op. 44 No. 1.
Tickets: £20 (concessions £18)
