Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Mieczysław Weinberg

Like Shostakovich’s fifteen string quartets, the seventeen by his Polish-born friend, colleague and confidant, Mieczysław Weinberg - by turns passionate, exciting, mysterious, anguished and exploratory, and consistently inspiring - constitute a secret diary of the Soviet intelligentsia. The Danels have performed all the quartets in Manchester over the past four years. Now they offer an historic first-ever survey of the complete cycle, in seven concerts at the Martin Harris Centre.

17/11
String quartet n° 1 opus 2/141
String quartet n° 2 opus 3/145
Aria and Capriccio (world premiere)
String quartet n° 3 opus 14

18/11
Aria and Capriccio
String quartet n° 4

19/11
String quartet n° 5 opus 27
String quartet n° 6 opus 35

Seminar: “The String Quartets of Weinberg”
By Professor David Fanning ad an international panel of experts

String quartet n° 7 opus 59
String quartet n° 8 opus 66
String quartet n° 9 opus 80

20/11
String quartet n° 10 opus 85
String quartet n° 11 opus 89

String quartet n° 12 opus 103
String quartet n° 13 opus 118
String quartet n° 14 opus 122

21/11
String quartet n° 15 opus 124
String quartet n° 16 opus 130
String quartet n° 17 opus 146
And the “Weinberg Public Choice…”

Quatuor Danel
Marc Danel (1e violon)
Gilles Millet (2e violon)
Vlad Bogdanas (alto)
Guy Danel (violoncelle)

Mieczysław Weinberg

21/11
Requiem (World Premiere)

Thomas Sanderling conductor
Asmik Grigorian soprano
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Choristers of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral