Quatuor Danel

Wooler Arts Summer Concerts 2024

Sunday 2nd June 2024, 3.00pm

Quatuor Danel

Schubert’s Greatest Masterpiece

Marc Danel, Gilles Millet violins
Vlad Bogdanos viola
Yovan Markovitch cello
with
Petr Prause cello

Janáček String Quartet No.1 (‘Kreutzer Sonata’)

Casken Inevitable Rifts I/II

Schubert String Quintet in C, D.956

An internationally renowned string quartet based in Paris, the Danels are joined by Petr Prause to bring us Schubert’s greatest masterpiece, his String Quintet in C, D. 956. Their concert also includes John Casken’s string quintet Inevitable Rifts (now with a new, additional second movement). Passion and drama run throughout this concert and the Danels open with Janáček’s wonderful First String Quartet ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ based on Tolstoy’s novella of the same name.

Praised for their beauty of sound as well as their unique interpretations of the classics, the Danel’s concert is certainly a date for your diary.

We were all immensely privileged to be able to listen to playing of such refined quality. It was a performance worthy of any international stage and in the acoustic of St Mary’s Church it sounded glorious. The musicianship of all the players, their technical brilliance and communication of the emotional worlds of all the works was truly astonishing. Rarely has an audience been so spell-bound. The eruption of applause at the end of the Schubert and the immediate and spontaneous standing ovation were more than deserved.

Audience Comments

The Schubert was magnificent!

Brilliant – Thank you!

Just Great – excellent! Thank you for bringing such high-quality musicians to Wooler.

Marvellous – great to hear new composition…performed by a marvellous group of musicians.

What an absolute JOY! Thank you!!

A wonderful performance. The series so far has been varied and altogether enjoyable.