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Chiaroscuro Quartet: Haydn

  • Wigmore Hall Wigmore Street London, England United Kingdom (map)

Chiaroscuro Quartet © Joss McKinley

Joseph Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross was originally created for Cádiz Cathedral’s Good Friday service in 1786, occupies the Chiaroscuro Quartet’s musical meditation for the week before Easter. Haydn’s work evokes the shattering drama and humbling magnitude of Christ’s crucifixion.

In Haydn’s original, each movement was separated by one of seven short sermons. In this performance, Zeb Soanes reads Andrew Motion’s Sacred Conversations, seven poems written expressly to match the beauty of Haydn’s music.

Zeb Soanes NARRATOR

Chiaroscuro Quartet

  • Alina Ibragimova VIOLIN

  • Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux VIOLIN

  • Emilie Hörnlund VIOLA

  • Claire Thirion CELLO

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

TICKETS: £40 £36 £32 £26 £18

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