Chamber Music Society presents an evening of string quartets

The Chamber Music Society  will present “String Quartets at the Goethe” on Sunday October 2 at 7 p.m. This evening of chamber music at the Goethe’s main hall, will open their 2016/17 season. The performers from the CMSC, will include artistic director, Lakshman Joseph de Saram, with Sulara Nanayakkara, violins; Othman H. Majid, viola and Saranga  A. Cooray, cello.

The string quartet configuration since the days of Haydn has been the form in which most major composers delivered their most profound musical creations, and indeed imbued with their purest inner being. The evening’s repertoire will include Tartini’s disciple Pietro Nardini’s fifth and sixth quartets, the Swiss composer Ernest Bloch’s serene “Night” for string quartet and Mozart’s youthful String Quartet no. 4, K. 157.

The last two pieces are rarely heard works – both of the legendary Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff’s unfinished string quartets from late in the 19th century.

Tickets priced at Rs. 1000, with first-come first-served unreserved seating, are available at the Goethe Institute office at 39, Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7.

The Chamber Music Society presents this musical evening in association with Fairway Holdings  and the Goethe Institute Colombo.