Arcadia Quartet brings Bach, Piazzolla and ABBA to Cazino Festival concert
Arcadia Quartet will perform at the Cazino Music Festival a program that begins with Bach and Haydn and ends with Piazzolla, Bartók and ABBA.
Arcadia Quartet will perform a concert at the Cazino Music Festival with a program that brings together classical repertoire and pieces of modern popular music. The first part of the evening begins with Bach and Haydn and moves through works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms, so that the audience traverses several eras of European chamber music in a single evening.
The second part offers a clear contrast. The program includes pieces by Astor Piazzolla, the Argentinian composer who blended tango with jazz and art music, and works by Béla Bartók, one of the essential figures of Romanian and European music in the 20th century. The evening concludes with arrangements of songs by the Swedish band ABBA, a choice that brings to the concert hall a repertoire known to a very wide audience.
The concert is part of the Cazino Music Festival, an event that generally combines classical music with formats more accessible to the public. The structure of the program, which moves from the Baroque of Bach to the pop of the 1970s, aims to show how musical genres connect and how works from different eras can be interpreted by the same ensemble.
Arcadia Quartet is a string ensemble that builds its repertoire on a combination of canonical works and interpretations of pieces unusual for a quartet. Through its choice of program, the ensemble offers the audience a journey through the history of chamber music, from the classical form of the string quartet to the transposition of popular melodies for the same type of ensemble.
The transition from works of the 18th century to pieces of the 20th century, and then to the pop melodies of the 1970s, also signals a change of audience and expectations. The program asks listeners to accept a heterogeneous repertoire, but one built in a sequence that follows the continuity of form and rhythm, from fugues and sonatas to the rhythms of the tango and ABBA melodies rearranged for strings.
For the audience following the festival, the concert offers an opportunity to hear, on the same evening, works rarely programmed together. The choice of such a varied program reflects the idea that chamber music is not confined to traditional concert halls and can engage with popular and urban traditions without losing its interpretive identity.
Source: adevarul.ro
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