String Quartet, Op. 28

Composer
Anton Webern
Date of composition
1938
Duration
8 Minutes

Events for this work

Thursday
26
October 2017
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Remembering the Future (Cambridge)

J. S. Bach, arr. Birtwistle
Three Fugues from the Art of Fugue (2008)
Anton Webern
String Quartet, Op. 28 (1938)
Joanna Bailie
Five Famous Adagios (2006)
Stef Conner
Singing Strings (2017)
Igor Stravinsky
Concertino for String Quartet (1920)
Sofia Gubaidulina
Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H (2002)
Georg Friedrich Haas
String Quartet No. 2 (1998)

This concert explores the history and future of music: transformations of famous Baroque works, visionary early 20th-century quartets, Haas's reinterpretations of tradition, and the world premiere of award-winning composer Stef Conner's Singing Strings: A Contemporary Quartet in Conversation.

Tickets: £16 (early bird £12), students £5

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