Dublin Guitar Quartet
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György Ligeti — Six Bagatelles
Nikita Koshkin — Changing the Guard
Philip Glass — String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima"
Arvo Pärt — Alleluia - Tropus
Kevin Volans — White Man Sleeps
Urmas Sisask — Songs in honour of the Virgin Mary
Leo Brouwer — Cuban Landscape with Rhumba
Cyrillus Kreek — Maga maga Matsikene
Cyrillus Kreek — Mis a sirised sirtsuke
John Tavener — The Lamb
The Dublin Guitar Quartet is a one-of-a-kind classical guitar ensemble that occupies a unique space in the wider chamber music world. It is the first classical guitar quartet devoted to new music. Since its formation, DGQ has worked to expand the limited repertoire by commissioning new works and adapting modern masterpieces from outside of the guitar repertoire. Audiences can expect an explosive, entertaining, and completely novel concert experience.
The Dublin Guitar Quartet perform contemporary music exclusively. Concerts include a mix of celebrated works of the guitar quartet repertoire and modern classics by internationally acclaimed composers such Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Henryk Gorecki and Arvo Part. The quartet are also committed to performing new Irish works. In March of 2004, Lyric FM broadcast their Mermaid Arts Centre concert over two installments of the ‘Horizons’ programme. This concert included a world premier of Four Guitars by internationally acclaimed composer Kevin Volans. The composer became interested in the group on hearing their arrangement of a work he originally composed for New York’s Kronos Quartet and this inspired him to compose a radical new work for their repertoire.
2014-2015 program:
William Kanengiser
Gongan
Nikita Koshikin (Russia, b.1956)
Changing The Guard
Philip Glass (b.1937)
String Quartet No.3 “Mishima” (20’)
Arvo Part (Estonia b.1935)
Psalom
Arvo Part
Alleluia – Tropus
John Tavener (1944 -2013)
The Lamb
Kevin Volans (South Africa, b.1949)
White Man Sleeps
Urmas Sisask (Estonia, b.1960)
Songs in honour of the Virgin Mary
Leo Brouwer (Cuba, b.1939)
Cuban Landscape with Rhumba
Cyrillus Kreek (Estonia, 1889-1962)
Maga, maga Matsikene
Cyrillus Kreek
Mis a sirised, sirtsuke
György Ligeti (Romania, 1923 -2006)
Six Bagatelles
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