BRAQUE'S VIOLINS

Georges Braque co-founded Cubism with Pablo Picasso and revolutionized 20th-century painting. Where Analytical Cubism breaks objects into fragmented, muted-color planes to analyze form, the later Synthetic Cubism reverses this, building or 'synthesizing' images from simple, bright shapes, collage, real materials and found objects. We will explore works by Braque that embody both types of Cubism, all of which feature the violin.

And, we will hear works for the violin considered 'Cubist' because they, much like the paintings, deconstruct the apparent stability of the violin's traditional sound, offering multiple viewpoints and rhythmic fragments. On the programme: Hindemith, Stravinsky and Schoenberg.