Join Goldner String Quartet as they share their Innermost Thoughts. With a career spanning almost 30 years, the quartet has decided to hang up their bows, but not before sharing some of their favourite works. In a thought-provoking program, featuring compositions by Mozart, Shostakovich, and Schubert audiences will get an insight into the intimate thoughts of some of the greatest minds in history.
Music In the Regions Presents: Goldner String Quartet, in partnership with Four Winds.
“Music to me is a journey through history and an examination of our humanity.
If you agree with this, you will love this programme offered by the Goldner String Quartet in their final season together after 30 years. Apart from the glorious sounds, one gets an insight into the aesthetics, Zeitgeist and customs of the time and in addition, an insight into the intimate thoughts of some of the greatest minds in history.
There is no better medium to portray the most heartfelt, innermost feelings of a composer than the string quartet. Shostakovich’s 8th string quartet perfectly describes the bleak, gloomy, horrifying period of Stalinist Russia and the despair and roller-coaster of emotions that the composer himself experienced during this fraught time. It is hard not to view this piece, written in just three days in 1960, as semi-autobiographical. It remains one of the most powerful and profound string quartets by a composer renowned for these qualities.
Franz Schubert wrote his famous Quartet No. 14 in d minor (known as “Death and the Maiden”) in 1824. From the opening mighty and forbidding bars to the maniacal music of the last movement, there is an air of resignation and inevitability, juxtaposed with music of the most sublime beauty, such as only Schubert can compose.
Mozart wrote his 4th String Quartet whilst he was in Milan for the premiere of his opera Lucio Silla. Only 16 at the time, he already displays the prodigious talent, mastery of form and the joie de vivre of a young man enjoying remarkable success. It makes a wonderful and sparkling start to this thought-provoking programme.”
– Dene Olding
“The individual and collective musical intelligence of these players gives all their interpretations aneloquence that is consistently assured, exhilarating and intriguingly flexible.”
Repertoire
“Innermost Thoughts”
Mozart – Quartet in C major K.157
Shostakovich – Quartet No.8
– Interval –
Schubert – Quartet in D minor D.810 ‘Death and the Maiden’
Artists
Dene Olding, violin
Dimity Hall, violin
Irina Morozova, violin
Julian Smiles, cello
Tickets
Meet the Artist
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Goldner String Quartet
The Quartet is named after Richard Goldner, founder of Musica Viva Australia. Launched in 1995 and still retaining all founding members, the musicians are well known to Australian and international audiences through their performances and recordings and for their concurrent membership of the Australia Ensemble at UNSW. All members have occupied principal positions in organisations such as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Unanimous audience and critical acclaim following their London debut at Wigmore Hall in 1997 ensured the Goldner Quartet’s invitations to prestigious UK and European festivals. Performances in the USA and throughout Asia have followed, in addition to several tours of New Zealand.
The Goldners’ most recent tour saw performances in the UK, including the Wigmore Hall (broadcast by the BBC) with long term collaborator, pianist Piers Lane. The Quartet also appeared in Ireland and in Italy for the opening of the Biennale Arte in Venice.
Strongly committed to encouraging the next generation of string quartets, the Goldners have mentored young ensembles through programs of the Australian Youth Orchestra, Musica Viva Australia, the Australian National Academy of Music, the Sydney Conservatorium, and AFCM Townsville.
New works have been regularly commissioned for the Goldners from many of Australia’s leading composers.
