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Quatuor Arod

Quatuor Arod
Saturday, February 06, 2021
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Chamber Arts Series

Quatuor Arod, a dazzling young French string quartet who have captured the attention of chamber music lovers the world over in recent years, make their Duke Performances debut with some of the most well-loved works in the string quartet repertoire. Quatuor Arod begin with Beethoven's String Quartet No. 7, the first of his "Razumovsky" cycle of quartets, named after Count Andreas Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna who commissioned the works in the early 19th century. In tribute to its dedicatee, the piece has a Russian theme which proliferates throughout all four movements, and is much longer and more expansive than many of his earlier chamber works. The quartet was written during Beethoven's highly productive and intensely emotional middle years, when, despite his ailing health, his status as a composer was flourishing and his writing was at its best. Following this is Schubert's "Death and the Maiden", one of the most iconic works in the composer's oeuvre. Full of pain, this richly textured quartet explores the very nature of what it means to be human.

- Freya Parr

Contact: Sibyl Kemp