Event Concerts and Performances META4

Dive into the brimming sea of the META4’s musicianship; rarely performing in the U.S., META4 offers performances of Saariaho and Sibelius that are analogous to none.

Musicians
Antti Tikkanen & Minna Pensola, violin
Atte Kilpeläinen, viola
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, cello

Well known in music centers like the Vienna Konzerthaus and Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música, Finland’s META4 Quartet appears at the Library on a rare U.S. tour. The group is noted for a striking range of color and articulation and “breathtaking levels of technical and interpretive finesse” (The Times, U.K.).

META4 brings its distinctive, sometimes flamboyant performing style to works by two composers for whom they have made benchmark recordings, Kaija Saariaho and Dmitri Shostakovich. Saariaho’s poetic “Terra Memoria” (“Earth Memory”) is dedicated “for those departed.” “Certain memories keep on haunting us in our dreams,” she writes. “Even after many years, some of these memories change some remain clear flashes which we can relive.” A work by another Finnish master is the concert’s centerpiece: Jean Sibelius’s String Quartet “Intimate Voices,” op. 56.

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