In two performances the RTHK Quartet presents a wide-ranging repertoire of best-loved string quartets and Chinese works for the ensemble. The first performance selects famous excerpts from the most notable quartets: Beethoven’s exciting finale concluding the String Quartet No.9 in C, the regal slow movement of Haydn’s String Quartet in C featuring the Austrian royal melody, and the opening movement of lyrical Brahms’s second quartet juxtaposed against the lively Dance of the Yao People. The first performance is ideal for a first taste of string quartet masterpieces.

The second performance features complete performance of three string quartets by Beethoven, Brahms and première Hong Kong composer Ng Cheuk-yin’s work. Although Richard Strauss is better known as a composer writing for gigantic ensemble, one should not miss his romantic string sextet from his last opera Capriccio. Overflown with Straussian lyricism and drama, the string sextet will be heard in both performances as a celebration of Strauss anniversary.

6.10.2014 (Mon) (The late-afternoon show)
Beethoven　String Quartet No.9 in C, Op.59, No.3
(Fourth Movement)
Haydn　String Quartet in C, Op.76, No. 3, Emperor
(Second Movement)
Brahms　String Quartet No.2 in A Minor, Op.51, No. 2
(First Movement)
Richard Strauss　String Sextet (from Capriccio)
Liu Tie-Shan & Mao Yuan　Dance of the Yao People

7.10.2014 (Tue)
Ng Cheuk-yin　Let There be Light (World Première)
Brahms　String Quartet No.2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2
Richard Strauss　String Sextet (from Capriccio)
Beethoven　String Quartet No. 9 in C, Op. 59, No. 3