Strings and More
Concert Series
Established in 2007, the "Strings and More" series aims to enrich the concert experience by placing the compositions performed within a wider cultural contex. The series is directed by the quartet’s violist, Dr. Yoel Greenberg, head of music department at Bar-Ilan University. The other quartet members enrich the explanations with theatrical excerpts and literary examples.
Concert No. 1
Songs of Praise
Presented by Dr. Yoel Greenberg
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No. 2 Rasumovsky
Ives Scherzo for String Quartet
Haydn String Quartet Op. 76 No. 3 Emperor
When the most intimate of ensembles, the quartet,
plays the most extrovert of genres, national anthems,
there is always an interesting story to be told…
Zichron Ya'akov First Aliyah Museum
Sunday, 24.10 at 8pm
Jerusalem Music Centre (Hebrew)
Tuesday, 26.10 at 8pm
Jerusalem Music Centre (English)
Wednesday, 27.10 at 8pm
Haifa Tikotin Museum Of Japanese Art
Thursday, 28.10 at 8pm
Tel Aviv Israel Conservatory of Music
Friday, 29.10 at 11am
Ra'anana Pais Music Center
Tuesday, 2.11.21 at 7pm
Online Concert 15.12.21
Concert no. 2
A Life in Music
Presented by Dr. Yoel Greenberg
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 From My Life
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
The string quartet does not usually lend itself to program
music, but when it does, it is often deeply personal and autobiographical, as in these two masterpieces.
Haifa Tikotin Museum Of Japanese Art
Thursday, 30.12 at 8pm
Zichron Ya'akov First Aliyah Museum
Sunday, 2.1 at 8pm
Jerusalem Music Centre (Hebrew)
Tuesday, 4.1 at 8pm
Jerusalem Music Centre (English)
Wednesday, 5.1 at 8pm
Tel Aviv Israel Conservatory of Music
Friday, 7.1 at 11am
Raanana Pais Music Center
Tuesday, 11.1 at 7pm
Online Concert (Hebrew) 22.2.22
Online Concert (English) 23.2.22
Concert No. 3
The Lark׳s Niggun
Without spoken presentation
Tal Samnon Piano
Haydn String Quartet Op. 64 No. 5 Lark
Kompaneets String Quartet No. 1 Jewish Melodies
Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 Op. 81
Two perennial masterpieces enclose Kompaneets deeply
spiritual quartet.
Zichron Ya'akov The Cube Elma Hotel
Sunday, 20.3 at 8pm
Jerusalem Music Centre
Tuesday, 22.3 at 8pm
Haifa Tikotin Museum Of Japanese Art
Thursday, 24.3 at 8pm
Tel Aviv Israel Conservatory of Music
Saturday, 26.3 at 9pm
Ra'anana Pais Music Center
Tuesday, 29.3 at 7pm
Online - 10.5
Concert No. 4
La Contadina
Comic opera in two acts
Composed by 18th-century composer Johann Hasse
*Collaboration with the Jerusalem Opera and Piccoli Festival, Italy.
Yizhar Karshon Presentation & Harpsichord
Gabriele Ribis Baritone and Director
Niva Eshed Frenkel Soprano
Filippo Rotondo Actor
Disguise, deceit, delightful success and dismal failure, cunning rustics, gullible aristocrats and Turkish pirates - all these combine to produce a sharp social critique in Hasse's delightful comic opera, one of the mid-eighteenth century's greatest hits.
Zichron Ya'akov Beit Nir Auditorium
Sunday, 29.5 at 8pm
Jerusalem YMCA
Tuesday, 31.5 at 8pm
Haifa Rappaport Auditorium
Thursday, 2.6 at 8pm
Tel Aviv Israel Conservatory of Music
Friday, 3.6 at 11am
Ra'anana Eran Auditorium, Pais Music Center
Tuesday, 7.6 at 7pm
Online - 13.7
Concert No. 5
On the Threshold of Romanticism
Presented by Dr. Yoel Greenberg
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 127
Schubert Quartettsatz D. 703
The 1820s saw two great composers break with the
classical tradition, each in his own way, paving the way
towards the romantic style.
Jerusalem Music Centre (English)
Wednesday, 29.6 at 8pm
Jerusalem Music Centre (Hebrew)
Thursday, 30.6 at 8pm
Tel Aviv Israel Conservatory of Music
Friday, 1.7 at 11am
Zichron Ya'akov First Aliyah Museum
Sunday, 3.7 at 8pm
Ra'anana Pais Music Center
Tuesday, 5.7 at 8pm
Online - 10.8