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2024-04-09 14:15:25
The Quatuor Ébène was last heard locally in 2014 at the […]
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2023-10-20 12:00:00
Pierre Boulez Saal Ligeti: String Quartet no.1, ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Lachenmann: String Quartet no.3, ‘Grido’ Brahms: String Quartet no.2 in A minor, op.51 no.2 Yun-Peng Zhao, Léo Marillier (violins)Franck Chevalier (viola)Alexis Descharmes (cello) Another splendid string quartet recital in Berlin, to rival or better to complement that I heard last week in a different venue, the Philharmonie’s Kammermusiksaal, from the Quatuor Ébène. One of the mysteries of the musical world is the seeming inability of French symphony orchestras to match those who might be their peers in German- and English-speaking countries. (In some ways, French opera orchestras seem to fare better.) One explanation I have often heard lies in French conservatoire training, where orchestral performance plays little or no role, neglected in favour of a more or less exclusive focus on solo and chamber playing. That may or may not be the case; certainly no one has ever claimed France lacked […]
2023-10-11 10:26:00
KammermusiksaalHaydn: String Quartet in G minor, Hob. III:33, op.20 no.3 Bartók: String Quartet no.3, Sz 85 Schubert: String Quartet no.15 in G major, D 887 Pierre Colombet, Gabriel Le Magadure (violins)Marie Chilemme (viola)Yuya Okamoto (cello) This was an outstanding concert: three masterpieces of the string quartet repertoire in performances that were not only of the highest quality but also, especially in Schubert’s case, constantly (in a good way) surprising. The Quatuor Ébène, here with Yuya Okamato substituting for regular cellist Raphaël Merlin, is of course one of the world’s leading chamber ensembles; I doubt anyone would question that. But there was absolutely no resting on laurels. If a Death on the Maiden I heard from this quartet fourteen years ago had announced a Schubert raging against the dying of the light, this G major Quartet took such tendencies further. Not only was this anything but a comfortable, Biedermeier Schubert, it […]
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