BBC Music Magazine has ranked the Pavel Haas Quartet among the ten best string quartets of all time. The quartet are coming to Mechelen for the very first time with a programme devoted entirely to their homeland, the Czech Republic. The central piece is Bedřich Smetana’s First String Quartet, subtitled ‘From My Life’. The composer, who had already been deaf for two years by 1876, called it ‘a meditation on my life and the catastrophe of total deafness’.
View the program booklet here.
PAVEL HAAS QUARTET
Veronika Jaruskova, violin
Marek Zwiebel, violin
Šimon Truszka, viola
Peter Jarusek, cello