Tue 2/4 @ 7:30PM
Four young Polish classical musicians, most of them graduates of Warsaw’s University of Music, met in Vienna in the mid 2000s. There, under the influence of that city’s pantheon of legendary composers, formed the Apollon Musagète Quartet , with those composers forming much of their repertoire, according to their bio.
Much but not all. Very young as string quartets go (many have histories dating back decades), they’ve also recorded an album with Tori Amos (2011’s Night of the Hunters) and written their own music. They honor their heritage too, by programming at least one piece by a Polish composer on each program.
When they come to Cleveland to perform at Plymouth Church UCC under the auspices of the Cleveland Chamber Music Society, that piece will be contemporary composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s 2008 String Quarter N. 3 “Leaves from the unwritten diary.”
That program travels through time as well as space, with pieces written more than 200 years apart. It includes Josef Haydn’s 1790 String Quartet in D major, Op. 64, No. 4, “Lark,” with Haydn the only Austrian composer on the program and the only one who lived in Vienna. The evening concludes with Czech composer Antonin Dvořák’s 1895 String Quartet in A flat major, Op. 105.
Tickets are $35; $30 for seniors, $5 for full-time students and those 18 and under.
clevelandchambermusic/apollon-musagete-quartet
Shaker Heights, OH 44120