Abel Tomàs | Vera Martínez violin
Cristina Cordero viola
Arnau Tomàs cello
Founded in 1997 in Madrid, Cuarteto Casals regularly performs in the world’s most prestigious concert halls since winning First Prizes at the London and Brahms-Hamburg competitions. We begin with Hadyn’s #64 nicknamed “Largo” because that slow movement is the core of the work in the unusual key F-sharp major. Next we hear child prodigy Arriaga’s #3 revealing an emerging new voice in his quartet modeled from Hadyn and Mozart. The program ends with the heart-rending grief of Shostakovich’s #3 with a repeated passacaglia surrounded by spans of playfulness, yielding a profoundly original quartet.
THE INDEPENDENT
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Inspiring a passion for chamber music in Houston since 1960