New Year Eve with Vilnius String Quartet

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – String quartet No. 14 in G major, KV 387 (Spring)
FRANZ SCHUBERT – Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass in A major, Op. post. 114 / D. 667 (Forellenquintett)

The farewell to the Old year with Schubert’s subtle Forellenquintett has become a tradition of the Vilnius String Quartet and its colleagues. On the very last evening of 2020, the Quartet performs it in Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum with double bassist Rokas Stunžėnas  and pianist Rokas Valuntonis, a winner of over 20 international competitions.

Next to Forellenquintett, the Vilnius String Quartet will perform Mozart’s charming String quartet No. 14 in G major. Mozart wrote this opus, invoking New Year tenor, in 1782 after settling in Vienna – in the manuscript he inscribed the date of the completion “31 December, 1782”. Eventually, the subtitle Spring was attributed to the quartet. However, it is the first of a series of six quartets dedicated to his friend Joseph Haydn.