Cries and Whispers | Manchester Collective

presented by CLF Art Cafe

Tue 10 Mar, 8.00pm

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MC's string quartet concerts are some of the most personal shows that they build. There’s something about that particular lineup which feels terrifyingly intimate - like there’s a direct connection between each of the four players, and every listener in the room.

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There is darkness in this programme. Widmann’s “Chorale” Quartet is inspired by the seven last works of Christ on the cross - his string music is augmented by unsettling sounds of rubbing and scratching that evoke skin and bone on wood. Britten’s music emerges from a mist: fragile, lost, and precious. MC perform some intensely expressive and sacred music by Carlo Gesualdo, an Italian musical genius hundreds of years ahead of his time.

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Finally, they conclude with the huge emotional impact of Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet, a biographical scream written by a man desperate to create, haunted by fear and political oppression.

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This music will move you if you let it - it will scare you and inspire you. 

 

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Manchester Collective - string quartet

 

Programme

WIDMANN String Quartet No. 2, "Choralequartett"

BRITTEN String Quartet No. 1

GESUALDO Selected Madrigals

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 8

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