Music Critique Quartet Opus 110 No 8 in C minor & Quartet Opus 74 No 1 in C major.

The St. Lucia String Quartet play at the drama building, I was there not because I had to but because I valued to. The lights focusing on the harmonyians forced the audience to focus on the harmony and the program offered two interesting and diverse fades of music that created two truly different atmospheres.

The first piece of music that was contend was the Quartet Opus 74 No 1 in C major, composed by Joseph Hayden in 1793. Sally-Ann Djachencko and Philip Nixon played Violins first arse and second seat respectively magical spell Yuri Djachencko played Viola and Amy Tucker played Cello. This piece followed the uncompromising structure of a Quartet, having four movements, Allegro moderato, Andantio grazioso, Menuet & three-bagger and Finale respectively. This piece was pleasant to listen to and evoked a classical mood to the room. The harmony was consistent and the tone colour in was very balanced through most of the piece. The melody was very lyrical and sounded nice as it was passed around each of the instruments. repetition was used frequently, the melody would be played and then played again in a different key. The music, although lovely, did not front to offer one much thought.



It was there simply to be pleasant and the mind would wonder back to what would it have been criterionized to hear this piece in the time that it was written.

The second piece of music was Quartet Opus 110 No 8 in C minor, written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1960. In this piece Philip Nixon and Sally-Ann Djachencko played Violins first seat and second seat respectively. Being a contemporary piece of music we shoot the breeze chances in the structure of the way the music is composed. Instead of the standard four movements that we see in the Hayden piece, Shostakovich...

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