On a string
Four vibrant and promising young string musicians from Bangkok Symphony Orchestra (BSO) will perform a chamber music programme, “From Haydn To Dvorak”, at Neilson Hays Library, Surawong Road, on Aug 22 at 7pm.
Held in collaboration with Bangkok Symphony Orchestra Foundation, the evening concert will feature two popular standard string quartet works with contrasting styles. Haydn’s String Quartet In G Major, Op 76 No.1 is the first of a set of six string quartets he last composed as a complete set.
The Op 76 quartets are Haydn’s most ambitious yet, moving away from standard sonata form to a more flexible structure allowing for seamless exchange of motifs between instruments.
Dvorak’s String Quartet No.12 In F Major, Op 96, nicknamed American Quartet, was written in 1893 during Dvorak’s vacation in the town of Spillville, Iowa, home to a Czech immigrant community. Through the usage of pentatonic scale, Dvorak managed to successfully find a balance between his overflowing melodic invention and a clear structure. The quartet was composed shortly after he completed his other famous work, the New World Symphony.
The quartet of the BSO comprises Kanin Udommana (violin), a Master’s student at University for Music and Performing Arts in Graz; Chot Buasuwan (violin), a senior student at Chulalongkorn University majoring in violin performance; Miti Wisuthumporn (viola), a graduate from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg; and Panyaphat Wongwechwiwat (cello), a student from Juilliard School of Music, New York.