Barbara Hannigan. Belcea Quartet
Air from Another Planet

One of the most fascinating personalities in the contemporary classical music scene is the Canadian Barbara Hannigan, who is equally outstanding as a singer and conductor and an unflinching pioneer in terms of concert presentation. The vocal part in Arnold Schönberg's legendary String Quartet op. 10 from 1908, which opened the door to atonality in a very romantic, immediately captivating way, is as if made for Hannigan's spherically clear soprano. "I feel air from another planet": Stefan George's verses, which Schönberg set to music so brilliantly, describe the feeling of harmonic weightlessness that Mozart created in the exceptionally bold introduction to his Dissonances Quartet. When the Belcea Quartet, one of the best ensembles ever, sits on the podium, as it does here, the demanding expedition becomes a pure pleasure.


Barbara Hannigan

Soprano

Belcea Quartet

Corina Belcea
Violin

Suyeon Kang
Violin

Krzysztof Chorzelski
Viola

Antoine Lederlin
Violoncello


Anton Webern
Five movements for string quartet op. 5

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in C major KV 465 "Dissonance Quartet"

Paul Hindemith
"Melancholy" op. 13 (Four songs for one female voice, two violins, viola and violoncello)

Arnold Schönberg
String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor op. 10 with voice



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