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Shostakovich Celebration

Holywell Music RoomOxford, South-East, OX1 1AB, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Saturday 08 November 202519:30

Shostakovich is a composer about whom we know everything and yet know nothing. But we come closest to both the man and the musician in his string quartets, works in which he reveals himself as an unparalleled diarist of anxiety and despair. The Carducci Quartet, members of which play regularly in the Oxford Philharmonic, continue their acclaimed journey through Shostakovich’s quartets at the Holywell Music Room. There, they alight upon some of the composer’s most potent music spanning two decades: No. 10, his heartfelt tribute to a friend and colleague, Mieczysław Weinberg, as well as the famously manic No. 8 and the virile No. 2. Don’t miss an ‘extravagantly beautiful’ (Washington Post) musical performance.

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