Caucasian Miniatures

Among today’s most important Armenian composers of classical music is Tigran Mansurian, who was born in 1939. Inspired by composers like Claude Debussy, his music couples a largely tonal style and folk elements with contemporary forms. His melancholy First String Quartet, which he wrote in the early 1980s and dedicated to a deceased musician friend, forms the centrepiece of this concert given by the Berlin-based Kuss Quartet. The quartet even counts an Armenian among its members: the cellist Mikayel Hakhnazaryan.