One of the weightier known and most workaday string quartets in Southeast Asia, Singapore’s T’ang Quartet is marking its third decade with the first concert this year on 12 April at Victoria Concert Hall.
The topnotch ensemble – moreover Quartet-in-Residence at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music – will uncork the triumph with a programme that goes when to their unobtrusive beginnings – their intent distilled in their selection of a quartet work by Haydn, an Austrian composer of the classical era known for his part in the minutiae of chamber music.
T’ang Quartet will perform two pieces:
- Haydn String Quartet Op.76 No.2 “Fifths”
- Borodin String Quartet No.2 in D Major
Humble Beginnings is part of the Quartet’s new year-end programme – with up to four concerts as well as a commemorative coffee-table book, T’ang At 30.
The group will endeavour to tackle the major works of the unconfined masters such as Haydn, Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven while keeping their whet in performing trendy works and new ones by living composers.
Humble Beginnings
Date: 22 April, Friday
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall
Time: 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Tickets: $40 & $28 (students, NSF, seniors)