Performed by OpensoundOrchestra, the concert will feature quartets by Bartók, Denisov, and Kurtág. OpensoundOrchestra continues its series of concerts dedicated to the string quartets of Béla Bartók, and in this new concert, his Fifth Quartet will be performed - a composition born in the troubled Europe of the 1930s. Bartók, having decisively severed ties with fascist Germany, refuses to cooperate with its publishers and concert agents, becoming increasingly isolated in his art. It is during this time that he creates one of his most powerful and complex quartets, filled with drama, rhythmic experiments, and intense energy. Bartók's music resonates as a response to historical instability, yet it is structurally thoughtful, refined, and remarkably free. In the third movement - alla bulgarese - the composer turns to Bulgarian folklore, embedding its rhythms into a neoclassical architecture. It is no coincidence that alongside Bartók in the program are works by Edison Denisov and György Kurtág. Denisov is one of the leaders of the Soviet musical avant-garde, who analyzed Bartók's technique in detail in his articles. His Second Quartet continues the idea of musical polyphony as a form of reflection. And Kurtág, a Hungarian contemporary and compatriot of Bartók, seems to continue his path through his own language, filled with pauses and unsaid meanings.