Solas String Quartet
Friday Mar 10th 2023 • 7:30 pm | The Large Room • City Hall

The Solas Quartet joins us for their second live tour with another wide-ranging programme culminating in Dvorak’s magnificent A flat quartet. Young Dublin-based violinist and composer Rohan Harron’s Psychotia opens the programme with unpredictable energy and drive. Henry Purcell would have been of a similar age in London in 1680 when he wrote his fifteen remarkable Fantasias. Frank Bridge’s Phantasie Quartet is one of many early 20th century British works which bear the ‘Fantasy’ tag and look back to the form of Purcell’s Fantasias. American composer Jessie Montgomery’s Strum ‘begins with fleeting nostalgia and transforms into ecstatic celebration, drawing on American folk idioms and the spirit of dance and movement’.
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Programme
Psychotia [2020]
PurcellTwo Fantasias Z.737 and Z.738 [1680]
Frank BridgePhantasie Quartet in F minor [1905]
Jessie MontgomeryStrum [2012]
DvořákQuartet in A flat Op.105 [1895]