Goldner String Quartet & Piers Lane (1)

This event has been cancelled and will not proceed as scheduled.

Both Dvořák and Korngold had the most marvellous and engaging responses to the USA they encountered in the 1890s and 1930s respectively. Dvořák composed this quartet in an astonishingly productive couple of weeks, reacting with childlike enthusiasm to the sounds he encountered on a rare family holiday in the countryside. Korngold’s circumstances could not be more different, for in America he found a safe haven from the encroaching political threats in his native Vienna, thereafter changing the sound of his adopted land. 

How fitting to see these pieces programmed alongside two distinctive and original masterpieces for piano quintet – and throwing into relief the mature and individual voice of young Australian composer Jakub Jankowski. And how brilliant to have them performed by the Goldner Quartet and Piers Lane – long-time friends, colleagues, collaborators – who for so long have championed the old and the new with utter commitment.

'The Goldner weigh every chord to perfection, and make the textures uttely transparent…their partnership with Lane is exemplary'

The Guardian

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• Program

  Program 1 – Saturday 9 October

  Korngold

  Piano Quintet in E, Op. 15 (1921)

  Jankowski

  String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kairos’* (2020)

  Brahms

  Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 (1864) 
  
  

  Program 2 – Monday 27 September

  Jankowski

  String Quartet No.1 ‘Kairos’*(2020)

  Dvořák

  String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96 ‘American’ (1893)

  Elgar

  Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 (1918-19)

  *Commissioned for Musica Viva by the Adelaide Commissioning Circle. World premiere performances.

• Artists

  Dene Olding

  Violin

  Dimity Hall

  Violin

  Irina Morozova

  Viola

  Julian Smiles

  Cello