G贸recki String Quartets

3 Oct 2015, St Giles' Cripplegate, London

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大象传媒 SO 2015-16 Season G贸recki String Quartets

G贸recki String Quartets

13:00 Sat 3 Oct 2015 St Giles' Cripplegate, London

Polish music ensemble, the Silesian String Quartet, perform seminal works by G贸recki.

Programme

- - Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki
  - String Quartet No.1, 'Already it is Dusk'
  - String Quartet No.2, 'Quasi una fantasia'

Performers

Silesian String Quartet

Composers

Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

Concert Information

G贸recki had only an abandoned fragment of a string quartet when he met with the Kronos Quartet in the late 1980s. That fragment became the atmospheric Already it is dusk (1988) which provoked two further commissions from the group, including the melancholy epic Quasi una fantasia (1991). We welcome the Silesian String Quartet, from the area in which Gorecki was born, to perform these two evocative works.

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Event supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of Polska Music programme.