Cosmos of chamber music: Quatuor Ébène
Cosmos of chamber music: Quatuor Ébène
Pierre Colombet Violine
Gabriel Le Magadure Violine
Marie Chilemme Viola
Yuya Okamoto Violoncello
Streichquartett Nr. 4 c-Moll op. 18 Nr. 4
Streichquartett Nr. 12 Es-Dur op. 127
Beethoven composed 16 string quartets, and over a period of around a quarter of a century he developed the genre from the Haydn succession to the late works that point far into the future. In the Beethoven year 2027, the Belcea Quartet and Quatuor Ébène will perform all of his quartets - not in chronological order, but in such a way that different creative phases stand side by side. In this concert, the Quatuor Ébène presents two quartets from the early op. 18, in which Beethoven still bundled six works in Haydn's manner. Mozart's style can also be heard in the A major quartet in particular. As the first of the latest quartets, op. 127 also seems to adhere to the classical form; however, with its often rhapsodic character, it also breaks it up from within, so to speak.