Belgrade philharmonic string quartet

Claudi Arimany, flute

Programme:

L. Boccherini: Quintet in G major No 2, G. 438
L. Boccherini: Quintet in B flat major No 6, G. 442
L. van Beethoven: String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op. 95 (“Serioso”)

Members of the Belgrade Philharmonic formed a string quartet in 2011. This highly active formation has already appeared in numerous venues in Serbia and also in Cetinje (Montenegro), Paris, Izmir (Turkey), Abu Dhabi and even Tianjin (China). In 2015 the quartet joined forces with clarinettist Ognjen Popović and released its first album, featuring works by Beethoven and Brahms. The programme will consist Beethoven’s String Quartet No 11, known as the “Serioso”, notable for harmonic experiments that look far forward into the Romantic era. At the Ljubljana Festival they are joined for the first part of the evening by the acclaimed Catalan flautist Claudi Arimany, of whom the great flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal once said: “[He] is one of those virtuosi who put technique, sonority and the colours of phrasing at the service of musicality and sensitivity, something not within the grasp of many.”

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