Norway’s Vertavo Quartet has a 35th anniversary coming up.
How to celebrate?
Take the complete works of Joseph Haydn. father of the string quartet, and play them end to end (with some help from a few other musicians) over an autumnal weekend, October 26-27.
Then stream it live@absolutthaydn.
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People’s ears will turn to cotton wool with that amount of music.
Not the complete works of Haydn but rather the complete works for string quartet by Haydn!
The Edinburgh Festival went through a phase when it felt the necessity to present ‘complete cycles’. My personal feeling was that it turned concerts into an endurance test which did little to service the music.
Norman, you mean the complete string quartets rather than the complete works of Haydn, right? Somehow, I don’t picture the Vertavo Quartet doing the Harmoniemesse,/i> or Il mondo della luna.
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