Quartet Nonell

String quartet presenting, at the church of Sant Sever, a programme of works by Bach, Haydn and Arriaga, three composers brought into dialogue through counterpoint and musical wit.

The programme brings together three works of different origin around contrapuntal writing. Quartet Nonell performs a selection of contrapuncti from El arte de la fuga, the late work by Johann Sebastian Bach. This is followed by the String Quartet Op. 33 No. 2, titled La broma, by Joseph Haydn.

The programme closes with the String Quartet No. 3 by Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, a composer whose death bicentenary is being commemorated. The selection focuses on compositional humour, on the interweaving of voices and on the complicity between the four voices of the string quartet, so that each work converses with the others.

The concert takes place in the church of Sant Sever, a religious building in Barcelona. It is a chamber format in which four string instruments carry the entire repertoire of the programme.