The Kordo quartet will hold a concert in the Nordic House at J\u00f3nsmessa on Thursday 24 June at 21. The repertoire includes two string quartets, both in D minor by two of the masters of music history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Joseph Haydn. Mozart’s Quartet, no. 15 op. 421 is a series of quartets dedicated to Haydn and is believed to have been composed in 1783. Haydn’s Quartet in D minor Op. 76 no.2, often referred to as the “Fifth Quartet”, is a bit younger, composed in 1797 or 98 and belongs to a series of quartets that he dedicated to the Hungarian Count Erd\u00f6dy. The concert is therefore a unique opportunity to hear string quartets by these two friends and geniuses, one after the other.<\/p>\n
The concert is about an hour long.<\/p>\n
The Kordo Quartet was founded in late summer 2018 and held its first concert in Harpa’s Nor\u00f0urlj\u00f3s Hall in February 2019. The concert was highly praised by critics who said the quartet was one of the leading chamber ensembles in the country. Kordo has performed in the Reykjav\u00edk Classics concert series in Harpa and in the spring of 2020 he held a net concert in the Culture Clock on behalf of the culture houses in K\u00f3pavogur, but the quartet’s concert that was supposed to be in the T\u00edbr\u00e1r series was canceled due to Covid-19. The group performed in the T\u00edbr\u00e1r series with the bandoneon player Olivier Manoury last March on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Argentine tango master Astors Piazzolla, and recently performed in the newly established Chamber Club of Language and Culture Bookstores. The Kordo quartet will hold their first concert tour in November next year to Spain, where the quartet will hold six concerts.<\/p>\n
The kordo quartet consists of violinists P\u00e1ll Palomares and Vera Panitch, viola player \u00de\u00f3rarinn M\u00e1r Baldursson and cellist Hrafnkell Orri Egilsson. They are all members of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Vera is now the band’s 2nd concertmaster and P\u00e1ll is the conductor of the 2nd violin. \u00de\u00f3rarinn and Hrafnkell have both held temporary positions as deputy leaders in recent years.<\/p>\n
Ticket price ISK 2,500, ISK 2,000 for students and pensioners. Admission free for children 12 years and younger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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