FAUSTAS LATENAS and OLAV ANTON THOMMESSEN

St Magnus Festival
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall
United Kingdom

ENGEGÅRD QUARTET
ARVID ENGEGÅRD Violin
ALEX ROBSON Violin
JULIET JOPLING Viola
JAN CLEMENS CARLSEN Cello

Both quartets present works from their home countries of Lithuania and Norway to start the concert with the extraordinary re-imagining of themes from Mendelssohn in the work of Norwegian composer Thommessen. Completing this thrilling concert is the towering achievement by the sixteen-year-old Mendelssohn. A work of brilliance and mature imagination, it is hard to believe that the composer was so young and that a year later he would write the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream.



Juozas Pakalnis : Little Prelude
Faustas Latenas : String Quartet No. 2, In Loving Memory
Olav Anton Thommessen : Felix Remix
Felix Mendelssohn : Octet