Attacca Quartet: Dowland, Glass & Pärt
The American ensemble performs music from across the ages, including Renaissance music and work from modern minimalist luminaries Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt.
Winner of two Grammys, the Attacca Quartet brings music from its album Of All Joys (2021) to life.
The ancient worlds of Jacobus Clemens non Papa and the master musician of Elizabethan England, John Dowland, meet the modern minimalists Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt across the centuries.
Hypnotic, introspective and heartfelt, the programme includes Dowland’s lute song ‘Flow my tears’ (Lachrimae Pavan) (1596) and Pärt’s streamlined ‘Fratres’ (1977) and builds emotional affinities between their contrasting worlds.
The concert culminates with Glass’ String Quartet No.3, based on his film score for the 1985 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, which dramatises the life of the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima.
Performers
Attacca Quartet
Repertoire
Dowland: Lachrimae Pavan arr. Nathan Schram for string quartet
Philip Glass: Quartet Satz
Arvo Pärt: Summa
Anne Müller: Drifting circles arr. Domenic Salerni for string quartet
Clemens non Papa: Ego flos campi a 7 (I am a flower of the field) arr. Amy Schroeder for string quartet
Francisco del Pino: Tu me sequere me (Follow me) (UK premiere)
Bennet: Weep, O mine eyes
Philip Glass: String Quartet No.3 (Mishima)
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
Need to know
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Reviews
‘They may be a relatively young ensemble, but already they come very close to epitomizing the string quartet ideal … Mastery like this is scarce enough in quartets that have played together for decades’
Washington Post
‘The Attacca Quartet enthralled a standing-room-only crowd’
The Strad
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