The Quarto's Concerts at Bulgaria Hall 2012 (October-December)

 

24.10.2012 Recital Bulgaria Hall, 19.00h

Johannes Brahms

Cello Sonatas Op.38 & Op.99; Piano Quartet No.1 Op.25
Laszlo Fenyö (cello), Ivo Varbanov (piano) & Quarto Quartet (Ivan Penchev, violin, Darina Vassileva, piano, Tatyana Todorova, viola & Dimitar Tenchev, cello)

21.11.2012 Recital Bulgaria Hall, 19.00h

Johannes Brahms

Viola Sonatas Op.120 No.1 & 2; Piano Quartet No.2 Op.26
Boris Tonkov (viola), Ivo Varbanov (piano) & Quarto Quartet (Ivan Penchev, violin, Darina Vassileva, piano, Tatyana Todorova, viola & Dimitar Tenchev, cello)

16.12.2012 Recital Bulgaria Hall, 19.00h

Happy Birthday, Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartets No.11 op.95 "Serioso" & No.15 op. 132
Quarto String Quartet
(Ivan Penchev, violin, Svetlana Stancheva, violin, Tatyana Todorova, viola & Dimitar Tenchev, cello)

22.12.2012 Grand Bulgaria Hall 19.00h

Quarto's Christmas Concert

Quarto Ensemble, Sofia Philharmonics, Vaya Dance Studio, Luisa Grigorova (actress) & Hristo Tanev (cello)

Tickets sales at Sofia Philharmonic Box Office in Bulgaria Hall & Ticketplus.bg

Quarto Quartet play Beethoven, Bridge and Franck - 02 June 2011

2 June in Modern Theater - Sofia

Quarto Quartet play Beethoven and Bridge - Piano Quartets & Cesar Franck - Piano  Quintet

• Quarto Quartet:

Ivan Penchev, violin; Svetlana Stancheva, violin; Tatyana Todorova, viola; Stoyan Bozhkov, cello & Darina Vassileva, piano

Tickets: http://www.eventim.bg/  & www.bgbileti.com

Modern Theater

Address: Sofia, 12 Varbica Str.

Quarto Quartet

E-mail: quartoquartet@gmail.com

1 March 2011 in Grand Bulgaria Hall

Quarto Quartet play Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25

• Allegro
• Intermezzo: Allegro
• Andante con moto
• Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto

Piano Quartet in C minor, opus 60

• Allegro non troppo
• Scherzo: Allegro
• Andante
• Finale: Allegro Comodo

Members of Quarto Quartet: 
Ivan Penchev (violin), Tatyana Todorova (viola), Stoyan Bozhkov (cello) and Darina Vassieva (piano).

• Tickets sales at Box Office in Bulgaria Hall and www.ticketplus.bg

Quarto Quartet play Beethoven Quartets

7 December 2010

Quarto Quartet in Recital Bulgaria Hall

Beethoven

String Quartet in C minor, op. 18, No.4
Quartets of op. 18 were published between 1800 – 1801. They were dedicated to prince Lobkowitz. In the Quartet in C minor, Beethoven moves towards the concerto form, an almost orchestral construction, outlined by the harmony and the cluster of secondary voices, thus allowing the first violin to dominate the scene.

 
Piano Quartet in E-flat major, WoO 36 No.1
The three piano quartets were written in 1785, when the composer was fifteen.  He had been writing music for about half his life at that point; his father had even tried to make a Mozart-like prodigy out of his son, traveling around showing off the young musician.  These quartets are interesting, though, in that the piano quartet was quite rare at the time.  Mozart was writing his two quartets at exactly the same time, and they were among the very few of their kind.

String Quartet in A minor, op 132 No.15
Beethoven wrote this piece (in 1825) after recovering from a serious illness which he had feared was fatal. He thus headed the movement with the words, "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" (A Convalescent's Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode).