Wednesday 26 September 2012

Tonight at the National Gallery - the Nightingale String Quartet from 6.30pm

MUSIC AT THE NATIONAL GALLERIES

The second in a series of three concerts responding to the Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910 exhibition. The concert series, supported by the Danish Cultural Institute, feature leading musicians from Denmark who respond musicially to the exhibition.

Wed 26 September, 6.30-8pm. £8 (£6). Scottish National Gallery (doors open at 6pm)
Nightingale String Quartet

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Nightingale String Quartet was founded in 2007 by violinists Gunvor Sihm, Josefine Dalsgaard, violist Marie Louise Broholt Jensen, and cellist Louisa Schwab. They were awarded the Danish Radio P2 talent prize in 2010. The programme includes Rued Langgaard'sVariations for String Quartet, "Mig Hjertelig nu Laenges" (O sacred head! Now wounded), String Quartet No 3 and Beethoven's String Quartet No. 8<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._8_(Beethoven)> in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2.

Tickets available from the Information Desk at the Scottish National Gallery (0131 624 6560) or on the door (please bring the correct money). Enter via the main entrance of the Scottish National Gallery, The Mound.