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After their acclaimed debut in 2017, the Gringolts Quartet return to the Edinburgh International Festival with string quartets by Mozart and Dvorak.
Mozart's String Quartet in D minor was the final of his set of six ‘Viennese quartets’ which he completed when he was just 17. Though he had written 12 quartets before, this was his first in a minor key and there is an air of melancholy running through it along with a nod to Papa Haydn.
Having worked for nearly three years in America, Dvorak was relieved to return home in the spring of 1895 and he promptly did nothing. "I am basking in God’s nature" he wrote to a friend "I’m just lazing around and I haven’t touched my pen". By autumn of that year, refreshed and revitalised, he composed his Quartet in G major, which is filled with his joy and delight at being back in his homeland.

Mozart: String Quartet No.13 in D minor K.173
Dvorak: String Quartet No.13 in G major Op.106

Gringolts Quartet

Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Gavin McCollum

Photo Credit: Mats Baecker