Shostakovich String Quartet No.1

The Vanbrugh - Keith Pascoe, Simon Aspell and Christopher Marwood - welcome David McElroy (violin) and Ed Creedon (viola) for a performance of one of the great string quintets: Mozart’s dark and melancholic G minor quintet from 1787.

As curtain-raiser in this week's concert, the Foundation presents a remarkable young group from CIT Cork School of Music, the Danu Quartet. They will play Shostakovich’s first string quartet, music of great charm and brilliance, its superb quartet-writing a sure portent of the fourteen extraordinary quartets that followed it.