Passion and intimacy
Program
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet no. 35 in F minor, op. 20/5 Hob. III:35 (1772)
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet no. 6 in B-flat major,, op. 18/6
Franz Schubert
String Quartet no. 14 in D minor, op. post. D 810 (‘Death and the Maiden‘) (1824)
Artists
Goldmund Quartett
Florian Schötz violin
Pinchas Adt violin
Christoph Vandory viola
Raphael Paratore violoncello
Of course the four young gentlemen of the Goldmund Quartet also travel the world with more easy-going programmes, but in Bonn these young prize-winners of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation want to probe their limits. Here they will negotiate three pinnacles of the repertoire, shedding light on a striking period of music history and three key composers of the genre. First Haydn, each of whose six op. 20 quartets – the so-called ‘Sun Quartets’ – traverses its own world of expression and its own formal language. Then Beethoven's Opus 18 No. 6 with its final movement entitled 'La Malincolia': a brooding Adagio that ends with a sigh. Of similar melancholy, finally, is Schubert's string quartet 'Death and the Maiden' - testimony to a doubting, seriously ill composer who nevertheless succeeded in creating a masterpiece here.
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