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B ER G EN I N T ER N AT I ON AL
FEST I VAL 2019
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Oslo
String Quartet
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T R OLDH AU G E N
T R OLDSA LE N
DATE / TI M E
Monday 03 June
at 19:30
D U R ATI ON
1:30
including interval
TICKET
Standard: 430
Senior: 387
Under 30: 190
FiB Fordel: 344
BT Fordel: 322
T R A N S P O RT
Transport
included in ticket,
see p. 14.
​ versatile audience favourite with
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familiar – and new – enthusiasm.
With a reputation as one of the most versatile
ensembles in the world, a high artistic standard
and integrity, Oslo String Quartet constantly
enriches the string quartet repertoire in a multi-
tude of genres through their critically acclaimed
recordings and successful concerts and tours.
In Bergen they perform a work by Festival
Composer Unsuk Chin, whose music they were
not familiar with at the outset. ’It was an exciting
challenge, so we took it,’ says cellist Øystein
Sonstad.
The father of the String Quartet, Joseph Haydn,
figures with one of his later quartets, which
Sonstad describes as ’very sweeping, crisp and
fresh.’ The programme also includes Debussy’s
only String Quartet, one of his earlier works.
‘It’s an absolute favourite in the very extensive
repertoire for the string quartet – of course
youthful, but at the same time surprisingly
mature. His quartet is clearly influenced by
Grieg’s great G minor Quartet in form, the-
mes and content. The result however is pure
Debussy at his best.’
Oslo String Quartet
Geir Inge Lotsberg violin
Liv Hilde Klokk violin
Magnus Boye Hansen viola
Øystein Sonstad cello
J OSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)
String Quartet in G major. 77:1
UNSUK CHIN (1961–)
ParaMetaString (1996)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
String Quartet no. 1 in G minor, op. 10
Supported by The Savings Bank
Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and
Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation
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