Programs

Season's suggestions

Program I

Mozart Quartet in C maj. KV 465 «Dissonances»
Dvoràk «Quartettsatz» in E maj, B 120
Beethoven Quartet in B flat maj. op. 130

Program II

Beethoven Quartet in F maj. op.18/1
Shostakovich Quartet in F sharp maj. No.7 op.108
Mendelssohn Quartet in f min. op.80

Programme III

Haydn Quartet in d maj. «The lark», op. 64/5
Debussy Quartet in g min., op. 10
Brahms Quartet in c min., op. 51/1

Program IV - concerts presented by an expert in musical history

Béla Bartók’s String Quartets and Beethoven’s Late Quartets

The fact that Béla Bartók, while planning his seventh quartet during his last years in the US, always carried with him the scores for Beethoven’s Late String Quartets, has much more than symbolic significance. For ever since his first quartet, Bartók has repeatedly drawn inspiration from hungarian folklore, the romantic composers, and Beethoven. During more than 30 creative years, his string quartets played a crucial role in his development as a composer.

The purpose of these concerts is to help listeners understand and appreciate Bartók’s quartets in their formal and emotional complexity, contrasting them with Beethoven’s Late quartets.

Presenter: Hartmut Möller, musicologist at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre

Additionally we offer:

As an alternative to the Mendelssohn, one of the string quintets featuring Hermann Voss at the 2nd viola.

Brahms’ quintets and sextets, namely the string quintets and sextets with Hermann Voss, viola, and Peter Buck, cello, the Clarinet Quintet with François Benda and the Piano Quintet with Matthias Kirschnereit.