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“It’s always a special thrill to play a program containing a Beethoven quartet and it will be twice the thrill to play this program containing two!” Wilma Smith, violinBeethoven turned western classical music on its head with his inventiveness, setting a blueprint for future composers to follow in finding ingenious ways to discard the rules of traditional composition. The very popular American composer, Caroline Shaw, quite literally creates a blueprint of Beethoven’s joyous and playful Opus 18 No. 6 quartet; her composition of the same name proving that the master is still at work inspiring composers today.
In Beethoven’s Opus 135, his last quartet is characterised by the crazily whacky Scherzo movement with rhythmic tricks galore, not to mention first violin acrobatics in the Trio, followed by the devastatingly touching slow movement in the unexpected, warm key of D flat major. This last quartet is certainly quite different from the ‘late’ quartets that preceded it; it’s often said that it marked the beginning of a new period for Beethoven, but we’ll never know for sure.
Concert Program (approx 2 hours including interval)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN String Quartet No.6, Op.18, No.6
CAROLINE SHAW “Blueprint”
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN String Quartet No.16 in F major, Op.135
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Montsalvat, 7-15 Hillcrest Ave, Eltham VIC 3095, Australia,Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Eltham
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