Programme:

Leos JANACEK (1854-1928)
String Quartet No.1 "Kreutzer Sonata"
Adagio. Con moto.
Con moto.
Con moto. Vivace . Andante
Con moto. Adagio

Benet CASABLANCAS (1956)
Five interludes for string quartet
Con moto
Moderato
Andante
Poco allegro
Piu mosso

Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809)
Symphony for flute and string quartet Hob.I:97 in C major
Arrangements by John Peter SALOMON
Adagio-Vivace
Adagio ma non troppo
Minuetto Allegretto-Trio
Spiritoso

Three highly eclectic examples of the vast world of chamber music. The classic of classics: F. J. Haydn; such a twentieth-century classic as Janacek, and finally a benchmark of Catalan music of today: Benet Casablancas. By Casablancas, we will hear the well-established Interludios, written over twenty years ago in Vienna, and from Haydn a relative rarity, with one of the adaptations of his symphonies by J. P. Salomon with the flute obligatto. The work by Janacek is very different: composed when he was approaching 70, and without ever having written for string quartet, Janacek minutely follows the adventures of the heroine from Tolstoy’s novel creating one of the paradigms of programmatic chamber music.