Quartetto Leonardo – Šostakovič

4.00 pm | Palazzo Te, Sala dei Cavalli

Quartetto Leonardo
Sara Pastineviolin
Fausto Cigariniviolin
Salvatore Borrelliviola
Lorenzo Cosicello

D. Šostakovič (1906-1975)
Quartet No. 3 in F major op. 73

33′ | Museum ticket

Abbiati Award 2021 as an emerging formation, the Leonardo Quartet offers the Third of Shostakovich’s Quartets to the Trame Sonore audience. Composed immediately after the Second World War, the five movements of this piece seem to evoke the atmosphere of the conflict, ending with the heartbreaking question, which Shostakovich indicated on the parts of the Beethoven Quartet as the title of the last movement: “Why?”