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Dudok Quartet: Abandoned Voices

,Milton Court Concert Hall
The Dudok Quartet playing their instruments. They are positioned in a close huddle, each person facing a different direction. They are against a cream coloured background.

Alongside something hot off the press, death, despair, and eternity stalk the Dudoks’ typically ear-opening programme in which Messiaen tempers the anguished ardour of Gesualdo and Schubert.

Premiered earlier this year, Bushra El-Turk’s new work celebrates singers from the Arab Cultural Renaissance. It resonates with Gesualdo’s tortured madrigal, and Schubert’s searing quartet references one of his most harrowing songs. Comfort is at hand, however. Originally conceived for the ondes martenot; repurposed in the Quartet for the End of Time, Messiaen’s Oraison contemplates the eternal.

Championing the new, cherishing the old is all in a day’s work for the multi-prize-winning, Amsterdam-based quartet. From Machaut and Pérotin to John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, its repertoire is ear-opening. Not that the ‘canon’ is elbowed aside. Gramophone relished the Quartet’s Haydn for its ‘virtuosity, finesse, and coursing energy’; while for the Irish Times, the Dudoks’ artistry is ‘revelatory’, adding up to ‘a kind of musical spring clean’.

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This concert will end at approximately 9.15pm with a 20 minute interval. 

Produced by the Barbican

Programme

  • Carlo Gesualdo (arr Dudok Quartet)   'Deh come invan sospiro' from Libro Sesto Madrigali
  • Bushra El Turk   Three Tributes
  • Olivier Messiaen (arr Dudok Quartet)   Oraison
  • Franz Schubert   String Quartet No 14, Death and the Maiden

Performers

  • Dudok Quartet  

Milton Court Concert Hall

Location
Milton Court Concert Hall is located within the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is approximately a 5 minute walk from the Barbican entrance on Silk Street.  

Address
Milton Court
Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

Nearby public transport
We are within walking distance from a number of London Underground stations, the closest being Barbican, Old Street, St Paul’s and Moorgate. The nearest train stations are Liverpool Street and Farringdon. Bus Route 153 runs directly past the Barbican along Chiswell Street

Car and bicycle parking
We have free bicycle spaces and paid car parking spaces available