NOVO Quartet
Works by Caroline Shaw, Dmitri Shostakovich and Ludwig van Beethoven – FAST LANE
Tickets €32
€32
Tickets €32
€32
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Doors open 18:30
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Start 19:30
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Interval
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End ca. 21:30
Four curious friends
By winning first prize at the internationally renowned Concours de Genève, the Danish NOVO Quartet has hit the fast track to a successful musical career and is in the process of establishing an excellent reputation in this »premier discipline«. For the four young musicians, a key source of strength lies outside music: »The secret to our quartet playing is our close friendship – during our rehearsals we sometimes take long breaks, which does us a world of good on a personal level.«
Their artistic credo is to remain curious and not (yet) commit to a single style or era. Their concert programme at the Elbphilharmonie is correspondingly wide-ranging: Caroline Shaw’s »Entr’acte« is inspired by Haydn’s string quartets, whilst Terry Riley’s »Good Medicine« is an ecstatic piece of minimal music.
With Shostakovich and Beethoven, the NOVO Quartet has chosen two masters of the quartet form. Whilst Shostakovich’s quartet is a 13-minute miniature, Beethoven strings together a full seven movements. A much-discussed risk in his day, today no one would question that it is magnificent music!
Performers
NOVO Quartet
Kaya Kato Møller violin
Nikolai Vasili Nedergaard violin
Daniel Śledziński viola
Signe Ebstrup Bitsch violoncello
Programme
Caroline Shaw
Entr’acte
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Streichquartett Nr. 7 fis-Moll op. 108
Terry Riley
Good Medicine / aus: Salome Dances for Peace
– Interval –
Ludwig van Beethoven
Streichquartett cis-Moll op. 131
Promoter: HamburgMusik
With the support of WEMPE
