One of Canada's finest chamber ensembles, the Penderecki Quartet opens our season, making its first appearance in Nova Scotia since 2010. They bring us a mix of classics and Canadian works, including a late work of Murray Schafer's, written as the composer grappled with the onset of dementia.
Jeremy Bell and Jerzy Kaplanek, violins; Christine Vlaik, viola; Katie Schlaijker, cello with Simon Docking, piano
Josef Haydn - String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2 ("Sun")
Sergei Prokofiev - String Quartet No 2 in F Major, Op. 92
Carmen Braden - The Raven Conspiracy
R. Murray Schafer - Piano Quintet