Legacy

Beethoven, String Quartet in D Op 18 No 3
Brett Dean, Epitaphs for Viola and String Quartet
Brahms, String Quintet in G, Op 111

with Brett Dean, viola

Program notes for this concert at are the end of this page.

Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets were his debut for this combination and, although composed under the lingering shadow of Haydn and Mozart, quickly established his credentials as a major musical force. The miraculous profundity of the slow movement in Op 18 No 3 is a harbinger of his later genius in this form. In contrast, Johannes Brahms heeded the immortal words of Dylan Thomas not “to go gentle into that good night…” with his Op 111 String Quintet. Despite being composed well into the composer’s middle age, its energy and dynamism make it seem like a product of a glorious Indian summer. Contemporary Australian composer Brett Dean used the same instrumental combination as Brahms in a very twenty-first century take in his Epitaphs for Viola & String Quartet to create engrossing musical portraits in memory of departed friends.

Adelaide: Tue 5 June
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Brisbane: Thur 7 June
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Sydney: Fri 8 June
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Perth: Mon 11 June
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Melbourne: Thur 14 June
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