Monday 29.7
11:11 a.m. VERDO Concert Hall
Eeven past Eleven
Debut 2 Chaos Quartet
Susanne Schäffer – violin
Eszter Kruchió – violin
Sara Marzadori – viola
Bas Jongen – cello
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): „Die Schöpfung“ Hob XXI.2, daraus „Die Vorstellung des Chaos“, Version für Streichquartett
Jean-Féry Rébel (1666–1747):„Les Élémens”, daraus “Chaos”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): „Kunst der Fuge“, daraus eine Fuge, “, Version für Streichquartett
György Ligeti (1923–2006): Streichquartett Nr. 2
Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998): Streichquartett Nr. 3, daraus „Andante“ (I)
Ludwig v. Beethoven (1770–1827) „Große Fuge” Op. 133
Coincidence and intention and their effects on space and time – four professional musicians have named their ensemble after the chaos theory. One of the members is also studying physics. But what unites the four most of all is a love of chamber music and the desire to refine the impact of sound and tempo within the overall structure. Last year, the quartet was chosen as BBC Radio 3‘s New Generation Artist for 2023-2025. The laureates of the ARD Competition, the Joseph Haydn Competition, and the Bad Tölz String Quartet Competition will be bringing works from Bach to Schnittke with them to Hitzacker.
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2:02 p.m. OKTOGON Gallery, Admission free
Two past Two
“Imagined Garden” – live act III with the Barbican Quartet
Amarins Wierdsma – violin
Kate Maloney – violin
Christoph Slenczka – viola
Yoanna Prodanova – cello
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3:03 VERDO Concert Hall
Three past Three
Audience Academy II with Alexander Lonquich: Schubert’s last piano sonata D 960
Alexander Lonquich – piano
No other composer has struggled with the classical ideal of the four-movement structure in their own work as much as the Viennese contemporary of Beethoven and admirer of Mozart, Franz Schubert. In the "Years of Crisis" 200 years ago, much remained fragmentary. Yet at the end of his life, he created piano and chamber music that squared the circle, with momentous final movements. In keeping with the festival's focus on "Four," pianist Alexander Lonquich will provide explanatory insights into one of the most moving and beautiful sonatas of the Romantic era.
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7.07 p.m. VERDO Gardens, Admssion free
Seven past Seven
Flash 2: Conversation with the Fauré Quartet
Erika Geldsetzer – violin
Sascha Frömbling – viola
Konstantin Hiedrich – cello
Dirk Mommertz – piano
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8:08 p.m. VERDO Concert Hall
Eight past Eight
Fauré Quartet
Erika Geldsetzer – violin
Sascha Frömbling – viola
Konstantin Hiedrich – cello
Dirk Mommertz – piano
G. Fauré (1845–1924): Lieder
J. Brahms (1833–1897): Klavierquartett Nr. 3 c-Moll op. 60
M. Mussorgsky (1839–1881): „Bilder einer Ausstellung“
The suffering Werther, one of Goethe's most famous characters, would be suitable to illustrate the work’s title page – so wrote Johannes Brahms to his publisher Simrock before his piano quartet went to print. Brahms had spent 20 years perfecting his Piano Quartet in C minor, a "work of deepest despair”. It stands in contrast to Mussorgsky's great program music "Pictures at an Exhibition" – a tribute to his deceased painter friend Viktor Hartmann. The best-known arrangement of this piece is by Gabriel Fauré, who is not only the namesake of the first-class ensemble that returns this year to Hitzacker, but who also composed extraordinary French Lieder, which the Faure Quartet "sings" on their instruments.