The Pavel Haas Quartet play Stravinsky, Ravel, Dvorak at Wigmore Hall

From Wigmore Hall in 2017 The Pavel Haas Quartet music by Stravinsky, Ravel and Dvorak.
The Pavel Haas Quartet have won many awards for their recordings of the music of Smetana and Janacek. Tonight they are joined by viola player Pavel Nikl for more music from their Czech homeland. And they pair this with a classic of the French repertoire.
Presented by Martin Handley.

Stravinsky: Concertino for string quartet
Ravel: String Quartet in F major

INTERVAL music: Andras Schiff plays movements from Janacek's On an overgrown path.

Dvořák: String Quintet in E flat major, Op. 97

Pavel Haas Quartet with Pavel Nikl (viola)

Written in 1920 to enliven the famous Flonzaley Quartet's repertoire, Stravinsky's brief Concertino revels in the contrasts and tension between two different scales.
It prefaces the Pavel Haas Quartet's exploration of Ravel's String Quartet in F, an emblem of poise and playfulness, and Dvořák's sonorous 'viola quintet', written in the summer of 1893 in Spillville, Iowa.