Time travel on strings
The New York based Brentano String Quartet performing in Wellington on June 12. Photo: Keith Saunders/Musica Viva Australia
The New York ensemble will perform music from the past 500 years, from the 16th century to the 21st, when they play in the Wellington Town Hall on Sunday (June 12).
Since forming in 1992 the quartet has toured extensively appearing all over the United States, and Canada, in Europe, Japan and Australia. Brought here by Chamber Music New Zealand it is the quartet’s second visit to this country. Sally Woodfield of the Chamber says the Brentano Quartet have a strong interest in both very old and very new music.
“They have performed many musical works pre-dating the string quartet as a medium,” she says. “They have also worked closely with some of the most important composers of our time including Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen, Chou Wen-chung, Steven Mackey, Bruce Adolphe and Gyorgy Kurtag.
Their Wellington concert will features Renaissance pieces from Byrd and Gibbons, works from Haydn and Beethoven and Stephen Hartke’s Night Sounds for a Desert Flower.
Brentano String Quartet, Wellington Town Hall, June 12.
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