'Music matters': Vivere String Quartet on playing through fear

Vivere String Quartet
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

The Ukrainian quartet recount the fraught experience of leaving – and returning to – their homeland to record their latest album, and explain why the strength and hope they found in their recent repertoire made the gruelling trip worth it to share their music

'Our mission to communicate our feelings, and those of the composers and our entire nation – our sorrow and pain, but also our joy, love and determination – meant we had to put aside our fears' (Image courtesy of Vivere String Quartet)
'Our mission to communicate our feelings, and those of the composers and our entire nation – our sorrow and pain, but also our joy, love and determination – meant we had to put aside our fears' (Image courtesy of Vivere String Quartet)

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