ENCORE
Friday October 30, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Guelph Youth Music Centre Recital Hall
75 Cardigan Street, Guelph, ON

ZEMLINSKY QUARTET

František Souček violin
Petr Střížek violin
Petr Holman viola
Vladimír Fortin cello
Smetana String Quartet No. 2 in D minor
Bartók String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17
Beethoven String Quartet F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Some of the most powerful string quartets say as much between the notes as within them. This program brings together three works where personal confession, folk memory, and historical upheaval quietly shape the music from behind the scenes.

Beethoven’s String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1 finds a young composer testing the boundaries of a genre he would soon transform — confidence and experimentation woven into a classical frame. Smetana’s String Quartet No. 2 in D minor, written as his hearing failed him, reads like a private diary of fear and resilience. And Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2, composed against the backdrop of the First World War, channels folk idiom and wartime unease into music of raw, searching intensity.
KW Chamber Music Society
Thursday October 29, 2026 at 7 pm
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Emil Burian String Quartet No. 4
Janáček String Quartet “Youth” (an arrangement of his wind sextet, “Youth”)
Dvořák String Quartet, F major, Op. 96, “American“”
KW Chamber Music Society
Saturday November 1, 2026 at 7 pm
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Franz Xaver Richter String quartet, C major, Op. 5, No. 1
Bartók String Quartet No. 2
Dvořák Viola Quintet, Op. 97 (with guest Christine Vlajk)