Vancouver 
Events Description
The VSO Chamber players is pleased to present a collection of four pieces by three of the great composers of the twentieth century. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano is a surprisingly charming collection of simple popular music – arrangements of ballet suites, an animated cartoon, and the film “The Gadfly”. Zoltán Kodály’s String Quartet No. 2, a lush work drawing inspiration from both Hungarian folk songs and dance rhythms, and French impressionism, is considered one of the most important works of early modern Hungarian chamber music. Our third offering is a wonderful string sextet written by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. The work was composed in under a week, and yet won first prize in composition competition. The composer refused to collect his reward for several weeks, believing his friends were merely playing a trick on him by insisting he had won. The final work on the programme brings all eights VSO musicians together for Shostakovich’s Two Pieces for String Octet. Shostakovich completed the work at only nineteen years old, and proclaimed the scherzo movement to be “the very best thing I have written” (Laurel Faye, “Shostakovich, A Life”). Audiences will no doubt be transported by this exquisite collection of some of the most beautiful and varied chamber music of the twentieth century.
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $41.90
How to get tickets?
Phone: 604.876.3434
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Thursday April 18, 2024 to Sunday April 21, 2024
Thu. Apr 18, 2024 | 8:00 PM
Sun. Apr 21, 2024 | 2:00 PM
Approx. 100 Minute Performance 1 Intermission
Venue & Address
Pyatt Hall, 843 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 3L4, Canada
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible by Public Transport
