Cong's Schubert Quintet【Prison Yard Festival 2024】Tai Kwun

Fresh from their residency with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in October 2024, the Hong Kong-based Cong Quartet (winners of the 2022 Adolfo Betti Award at the Virtuoso & Belcanto Chamber Music Competition in Tuscany) once again unfold their local roots on a universal canvas. Opening with the Cong Quartet's reimagining of Hong Kong-born, Philadelphia-based composer Adrian Wong's Childhood Sweet, a quasi-impressionistic sampling of local desserts (from durian to herbal jelly and tofu pudding) originally written for solo piano, the evening culminates in Schubert's String Quintet, a mature musical statement far removed from the charming tunes of the composer's early Viennese salons. Joined by ACO Principal Cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, the Cong plumb the depths of Schubert's final musical thoughts, where dance-like joy mingles with late-in-life ruminations on mortality.

Programme

Performed by Cong Quartet
Guest cellist: Timo-Veikko Valve (Principal Cellist of Australian Chamber Orchestra)

Adrian Wong │ Childhood Sweet
Schubert │String Quintet, D.956

Duration: Approximately 1 hour 10 minutes without interval

Remarks
• For wheelchair user, please purchase tickets via URBTIX www.urbtix.hk
• Latecomers will only be admitted at a suitable time
• Recommended for ages 6 and above