Piano wooed by strings
Program
Gustav Mahler
Piano Quartet movement in A minor (1876)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Quintet in E-flat major, op. 16 (1796) , version for piano quintet by the composer (1810)
Gabriel Fauré
Piano Quartet no. 1 in C minor, op. 15 (1876–83)
Artists
Fauré Quartett
Erika Geldsetzer violin
Sascha Frömbling viola
Konstantin Heidrich violoncello
Dirk Mommertz piano
Born and nurtured at Karlsruhe University of Music, the Fauré Quartet has performed with the same members since 1995 – a rarity among chamber ensembles in this format. It is no accident that the ‘Faurés’ took their name from this French composer, whose music enjoyed a veritable boom in France after a decades-long dearth of chamber music. Beethoven’s op. 16, originally scored for wind instruments with piano, sounds completely authentic in the composer’s own arrangement. A special gem is the passionate quartet movement by a very young Mahler. What would we give to have more than just the opening movement of this stroke of genius from the future symphonist!
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