Pavel Haas Quartet
Veronika Jarůšková / 1st violin
Marek Zwiebel / 2nd violin
Radim Sedmidubský / viola
Peter Jarůšek / cello
Program:
Ľubica Čekovská: A Midsummer Quartet, new composition for the Concentus Moraviae Festival on Shakespearean theme
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 C minor Op. 110
Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet No. 2 D minor
The Pavel Haas Quartet has prepared a new work by the significant Slovak composer, Ľubica Čekovská, for its performance at the Žďár Chateau. She has written a quartet for this year’s festival, which she has called the Midsummer’s Night Quartet with reference to the festival’s focus on Shakespeare. Along with the premiere of this work, the program will also include the most tragic of Shostakovich’s fifteen quartets, which was influenced by the composer’s experience of the broken city of Dresden, and Smetana’s second quartet, his final victory in his struggle with encroaching madness.
