Goldner String Quartet – Presented by Musica Viva

Four friends, three pieces, two married couples, one quartet: this tour celebrates the 20th anniversary of Australia’s pre-eminent chamber ensemble. Critics and audiences around the globe have warmed to the musical and emotional insights brought to light by this extraordinary quartet.

DENE OLDING: VIOLIN DIMITY HALL: VIOLIN IRINA MOROZOVA: VIOLA JULIAN SMILES: CELLO

The Goldners have chosen works of great personal meaning for this tour. Literally engaging with matters of life and death, Ligeti’s searing and revolutionary Quartet no 1 was considered too dangerous to premiere behind the Iron Curtain. This is paired with the almost unbearable beauty of Beethoven’s Op 132, which was written as a ‘holy song of thanksgiving from a convalescent’ following the composer’s severe illness. Together these pieces are truly music from the heart; and whether listeners enter the concert hall needing to share in Ligeti’s darkness, or to be consoled and uplifted by Beethoven, the power of this program will leave no one unmoved.

The other work on the program looks forward: Paul Stanhope’s third string quartet, newly commissioned for the Goldners by the audience of the Huntington Estate Music Festival, makes its first appearance outside Mudgee.

LIGETI
String Quartet no 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes

STANHOPE
String Quartet no 3 Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Huntington Estate and friends

BEETHOVEN
String Quartet no 15 in A Minor, op 132

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