Dialogue Between Musical Epochs

2018 / 2019                    Chamber Hall                the 6th Season

11 November * Sunday * 6.00 pm

The Kazakh Quartet Invites Cycle

Dialogue Between Musical Epochs

The Gaziza Zhubanova State String Quartet, a well-known Kazakhstani ensemble, is to amaze the guests of the capital city and devoted music lovers with a new concert programme. Josef Haydn described a string quartet as “A dialogue between four very intelligent people who have something to say”. We invite music lovers and guests of the capital to listen to the fascinating conversation of brilliant musicians of the renowned Gaziza Zhubanova State String Quartet.

The concert will feature graceful and life-affirming music of the Austrian classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hugo Wolf’s expressive and dance-like Italian Serenade, as well as Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 5, composed in autumn 1952 and including, like composer’s other works, the DSCH monogram (notes, denoted by the Latin letters, which make up the initials of the composer, i.e. “D.Sch”: D, E flat, C, B natural).

 

 

ON THE PROGRAMME:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

String Quartet No.15 in D Minor, KV421

1. Allegro

2. Andante

3. Menuetto: Allegretto

4. Allegretto ma non troppo

 

Hugo Wolf

Italian Serenade, W17/2

 

Dmitri Shostakovich

String Quartet No.5 in B Flat Major, op. 92

1. Allegro non troppo

2. Andante

3. Moderato - Allegretto - Andante

 

The String Quartet is composed of

Aidar Toktaliyev (1st violin)

Alexey Lebedev (2nd violin)

Bekzat Sailaubaiuly (viola)

Yernar Myntayev (cello)

 

Artistic Director: Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Yernar Myntayev

 

Running time: 1 hour 15 minutes

 

Management reserves the right to substitute performers and works performed