Czech Republic's Bennewitz Quartet plays a Friends of Chamber Music concert, April 9

Group’s return to Vancouver features a collaboration with Russian pianist Arsentiy Kharitonov for Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2

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Bennewitz Quartet. Photo by Mark Mushet

Friends of Chamber Music welcome the internationally acclaimed Bennewitz Quartet back to Vancouver on April 9 at 7:30 pm.

The Czech Republic-based ensemble has been described by the Diapason as having a “round, sensual, silky sound”. Its upcoming concert will open with Czech composer Hans Krása’s best-known work, Theme and Variations for String Quartet, which the composer saw performed for the first time while imprisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech Republic, shortly before his death in a German concentration camp.

Leoš Janáček’s personal and emotional masterpiece, String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”, will follow. The quartet will then be joined by talented Russian pianist Arsentiy Kharitonov to play Antonín Dvořák’s magnificent Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Opus 81, a jewel of the piano quintet repertoire.

The Bennewitz Quartet’s concert at the Vancouver Playhouse marks the last show in Friends of Chamber Music’s 76th season. Tickets are available online.

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Arsentiy Kharitonov.