Galvin Cello Quartet: Beyond the Expected

Making its Vancouver debut, the Galvin Cello Quartet, Fischoff silver medallists and Concert Artists Guild artists, shows the versatility of four cellos in opera overtures, Romantic variations and song transcriptions.

Galvin Cello Quartet: Sydney Lee, Luiz Fernando Venturelli, James Baik, Haddon Kay (cellos) Program: Mozart (arr. Moore) — The Marriage of Figaro: Overture Massenet (arr. Sabouret) — Meditation from Thaïs Beethoven (arr. Yu) — 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus Paganini (arr. Galvin Quartet) — Variations on a Theme by Rossini ("Moses") Clara Schumann (arr. Galvin Cello Quartet) — Two songs from 6 Lieder, Op. 13 (Ich stand in dunklen Träumen; Liebeszauber) Johann Strauss Sr. (arr. Despalj) — Jelacic March, Op. 244 Bizet (arr. Sabouret) — Suite from Carmen Bellini — Casta Diva Britten (arr. Galvin Cello Quartet) — The Salley Gardens Johann Strauss Jr. (arr. Galvin Cello Quartet) — Overture to Die Fledermaus