Quartet by Vasks opens Aldeburgh lunchtime series
Peteris Vasks
On Friday 6 January 2012, the Almandin Quartet opened the first concert of the winter Friday lunchtime series by Aldeburgh Music at the Jubilee Hall with the fifth string quartet (2004) by the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks (b 1946).
Not yet well known to many British concertgoers, Vasks has an impressive record of orchestral, choral and chamber compositions: the Navarra String Quartet have recently recorded his first three quartets and the Kronos the fourth.
Vasks’ second quartet (Summer Tunes) from 1984 can be heard at Cratfield in the concert by the Wu Quartet on Sunday 19 August 2012, together with quartets by Tippett and Schubert: click here for that concert page. Before that, the Wu are also appearing in the winter Jubilee Hall series, on Friday 23 and 30 March 2012.
The Almandin gave their second concert at the Jubilee Hall on Friday 13 January at 12.15pm: quartets by Viktor Ullmann (no 3, from 1943) and Beethoven op 130.