
Pacifica Quartet

June 2017
Tue 20
07:00 PM

Musica Viva
100 William Herbert Place Acton
Canberra,
Exhilarating, exuberant, virtuosic: the Pacifica Quartet has won hearts around the world for its passionate performances. Such intensity throws a brilliant light onto quartets by Haydn and Mendelssohn, as well as the welcome return of Nigel Westlake’s second quartet.
Exhilarating, exuberant, virtuosic: the Pacifica Quartet has won hearts around the world for its passionate performances. Treading that miraculous line between naked emotion and scrupulous musicianship, a concert with the Pacificas becomes an engrossing sensory experience for the audience.
Such intensity throws a brilliant light onto the pure, architectural beauty of a cherished Haydn quartet. Mendelssohn’s magnificent first string quartet shows its teenage composer’s obsession with Beethoven. The heart-on-sleeve, melodic riches of these two early Romantic geniuses are natural territory for these performers.
Although it’s only a little over a decade old, the second quartet by master Australian composer Nigel Westlake fits perfectly in this context, offering players and listeners an enticing palette of lyricism and rhythm.
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