Elias String Quartet
Saturday 10 March 2012
8.00pm Dorking Halls
Tickets: £18
PLEASE NOTE TIME
Mozart String
Quartet No.18 in A major, K464
Janácek
String Quartet No.1 Kreutzer Sonata
Mendelssohn String
Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13
Sara Bitlloch Violin
I
Donald Grant Violin
II
Martin Saving Viola
Marie Bitlloch Cello
For the final concert of their series, the
Elias Quartet plays music by Mozart, Mendelssohn and
Janácek. The Mozart quartet is one of a set of six which
the young Mozart dedicated to his older friend and mentor
Haydn, and it demonstrates Mozart’s increasing confidence
in the techniques of quartet writing. Mendelssohn’s A
minor quartet is a youthful work, written when the composer was
just 18, and it is tumultuous and passionate.
Janácek’s first string quartet, entitled The Kreutzer Sonata,
is based on Tolstoy’s novel of marital unhappiness and
infidelity. Written during the composer’s late years,
when he formed a close friendship with a much younger married
woman, it is music of great passion and dramatic urgency.
