Three concerts with music by Vivaldi & Piazzolla, American Quartets and Borodin & Beethoven.
Dates and times: March 26, April 17 and May 15
Venue: Archive Room of the Town Hall
Schedule
American quartets
Starting with the string quartet, the Metropolitana soloists - Nuno Rodrigues and Tolga Kulak on violins, José Freitas on viola and Catarina Gonçalves on cello - explore American sounds: Kapustin's jazz, inspired by radio broadcasts, and Piazzolla's tango, whose Tango Ballet was adapted for quartet by José Bragato.
Borodin & Beethoven
The string quartet demands technical rigor and style.
In this program, performed by the Metropolitana Soloists - Tolga Kulak, Anzhela Akopyan (violins), Sérgio Sousa (viola) and Ana Cláudia Serrão (cello) - we hear Beethoven, whose Op.18 reveals expressive maturity, and Borodin, whose third movement gained fame when it was part of the song "And This Is My Beloved".
Finished events
Vivaldi & Piazzolla - Eight Seasons
The Metropolitana soloists, here in trio - Diana Tzonkova (violin), Ercole de Conca (double bass) and Emanuela Nicoli (harp) - present a program that brings together works by Vivaldi and Piazzolla.
Although separated by two and a half centuries and an ocean, the two composers reveal surprising affinities, highlighted here by the unique sound of this trio.