Doric String Quartet
Elegant and intimate in both the classical canon and new music—that's how you could describe the playing of the Doric String Quartet, founded in 2008. The English ensemble, no stranger to the Recital Hall, plays major venues and has fans worldwide. Tonight, in addition to Bach, Haydn, and Janáček, the string players will also perform Mendelssohn, whose string quartets they recently recorded. The music magazine The Strad noted: "There's a seductive unity and unforced clarity to the quartet's soundscape." Listen and judge for yourself.
Janáček and Mendelssohn
We know Mendelssohn as a composer who worked according to the classical model of Mozart and early Beethoven. Yet, in his inspired Opus 12, you hear that, as a twenty-year-old, he was pushing the boundaries of form and expression. Almost a century later, Janáček did the same in his Kreutzer Sonata Quartet . Loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's psychological novel, Janáček's masterpiece fuses love and longing into a dramatic unity. The Doric String Quartet demonstrates how well these two compositions complement each other.
