Germany's Gropius Quartet plays its debut Friends of Chamber Music concert, October 15

Program for the evening at the Vancouver Playhouse spans Haydn, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn

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Gropius Quartet.

Friends of Chamber Music opens its 2024-25 season with its first concert from superb German ensemble the Gropius Quartet at the Vancouver Playhouse on October 15 at 7:30 pm.

Praised by German newspaper General Anzeiger Bonn as having “superb technique, and the ability to hold the tension from the first measure to the last”, the group takes its name from Walter Gropius, the revolutionary visionary who invented the bold Bauhaus style in the 1920s.

The concert opens with Haydn’s String Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 33, No. 2, “Joke”, nicknamed for an obvious joke in the last movement. Shostakovich’s mid-20th-century String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Opus 110, inscribed “in memory of victims of fascism and war”, follows. The evening concludes with Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Opus 80, his last major piece.

Tickets and more details are available at Friends of Chamber Music.

Post sponsored by Friends of Chamber Music.