Event Concerts and Performances Danish String Quartet

Date and Location

Part of Concerts from the Library of Congress

The event is free, but tickets are required, and there may be special restrictions. Click the "Get Tickets" link below for more information and to secure your ticket.

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Musicians
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin
Frederik Øland, violin
Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola
Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, violoncello

Encounters with the exemplary Danish Quartet are memorable. “The Danish play…as if they were joined on a single instrument, armed with four bows,” states The New York Times. They bring a beautiful program to the Library, performing works by Haydn, Mozart and Stravinsky to frame a trio of pieces written more than three centuries earlier by the blind Irish harper and composer Turlough O’Carolan. Playing traditional music has been a serious endeavor for the artists over their 20 years together. “Folk tunes are not just a part of our repertoire,” the artists have said, “but an important element of our identity as musicians.” Capping their concert is Franz Schubert’s transcendental last quartet, completed in the final months of the composer’s life.

Preconcert Conversation with the Artists
6:30 pm, Whittall Pavilion

Schedule

Program
JOSEPH HAYDN
Quartet in G minor, op. 20, no. 3, H.III 33 

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Three Pieces for String Quartet

TURLOUGH O’CAROLAN
Mabel Kelly
Planxty Kelly
Carolan’s Quarrel with the Landlady

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 
Divertimento for strings in F major, K. 138

FRANZ SCHUBERT
String Quartet no. 15 in G-major, D. 887

Ticketing Information

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