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Concert at 10 a.m. featuring the Kuss Quartett and Quatuor Diotima
Concert at 12:30 p.m. featuring Quatuor Diotima
The classical string quartet, as exemplified in Mozart’s Quartet in A major, K. 464—the fifth of his six “Haydn Quartets,” which the young Beethoven particularly admired —is given an expressionist makeover in Béla Bartók’s Second Quartet through the incorporation of “imaginary folklore.” Helmut Lachenmann’s “Gran Torso,” on the other hand, liberates the genre from all conventionally “beautiful” string sounds and replaces them with his “musique concrète instrumentale.” A key focus is on the “mechanical and energetic conditions of sound production.” “Explored,” according to musicologist Frank Hilberg, are “the edges—those of the instrument (beyond the strings, in the pegbox, at the edge of the body) and those of the sound (between the faintest rustle and a screeching, creaking pressure).” “Gran Torso” is performed by the Quatuor Diotima, an ensemble specializing in contemporary music, which also provides an introduction to the work.
10:00
Kuss Quartett
Quatuor Diotima
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 18 in A major KV 464
String Quartet No. 18 in A major KV 464
Helmut Lachenmann
String Quartet No. 1 “Gran Torso”
-> Introduction to the work with the Quatuor Diotima
String Quartet No. 1 “Gran Torso”
-> Introduction to the work with the Quatuor Diotima
12:30
Quatuor Diotima
Béla Bartók
String Quartet No. 2 Sz 67
String Quartet No. 2 Sz 67
