Programs

Season's suggestions

Program I

Schubert «Quartettsatz» in c minor
Nono Fragments - Silence, To Diotima
Beethoven Quartet op. 18/1 in f major

Program II

Mozart Quartet KV 521 in b flat major
Shostakovich Quartet Nr. 7 op. 108 in f sharp minor
Smetana Quartet No. 1 in e minor «From my life»

Program III

Webern Movement for string quartet
Ravel String quartet
Schubert Quartet op. posth. in g major

Program IV

Joseph Haydn Quartet op.64/5 «The Lark»
Verdi Quartet in e minor
Debussy Quartet op.10 in g minor

Program V - 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

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 Brahms, Dvoràk, Schumann and Shostakovich piano quintets with Matthias Kirschnereit.