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Voces String Quartet @ ICR London

A string quartet of real musical maturity, together for over thirty-six years, the Iasi based Voces String Quartet are in popular demand in many countries and have appeared at such major festivals as Bayreuth, Bratislava, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Salonica, Salzburg, Siena and Turin. They also take part prominently in the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest.

1998 saw the ensemble make their United Kingdom début at the Wigmore Hall in London, where they were joined on the platform by Martin Lovett (formerly 'cellist of the Amadeus String Quartet) for performances of the Brahms F Minor (arr. for strings only by Sebastian Brown, after Brahms' original sketches) and the Schubert C Major quintets before an appreciative full house.

"Led by the acutely thoughtful and calmly virtuosic Bujor Prelipcean, the Voces Quartet plays with the telepathy and bravura of long and successful partnership…. a calm assertion of musical authority… the parts interlocked like a gleaming clock mechanism".
(Hampstead & Highgate Express, London).

Programme: Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op 133
George Enescu: String Quartet in G minor, Op 22 No 2
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F Major

Voces Quartet
Bujor Prelipcean, 1st violin
Anton Diaconu, 2nd violin
Constantin Stanciu, viola
Dan Prelipcean, cello

The Enescu Society Concert Season runs from October to June, on the first Thursday of each month. The concert stage of the Institute will host outstanding musicians performing George Enescu's music alongside an international repertoire.

The Enescu Society is a project of the Romanian Cultural Institute under the Royal Patronage of HRH Princess Margarita of Romania.

When: Thursday, 6 March 2008, 7.00-9.00 pm;
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X8PH
Admission: is free. Please reserve your seats at T: 0207 752 0134, E: office@icr-london.co.uk.