Quatuor Agate: Outlaws

Sun 26 Jan 2025 View Venues, Dates & Times

Now here’s an interesting way to spend a Sunday morning (the concert starts at 11am)... 
Paris-based rising stars Quatuor Agate sink their teeth into the music of ‘outlaw’ musicians - artists who not only composed outside the musical norms of their time but also acted on the fringes of societal norms. 
Featured composers include 16th-century prince and assassin Carlo Gesualdo, outspoken lesbian and imprisoned suffragette Ethel Smyth, and Stalin-declared ‘enemy of the people’ Dmitri Shostakovich... The concert is introduced by Princess Eleonora d’Este, the second wife of Carlo Gesualdo (he murdered his first!), who narrates the dark legend of her husband. 

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