Matinee Doric String Quartet + Tabea Zimmermann

Viola, Viola

An extra viola with a string quartet offers a huge advantage: you can program a viola duo. George Benjamin wrote Viola, Viola for Yuri Bashmet and Nobuko Imai and wanted to emphasize the melancholic, intimate character of the viola in this composition. But gradually he discovered more and more possibilities to elicit symphonic sounds from the eight strings. Viola, Viola could well prove to be the most voluminous work of this concert.