Wednesday 31.7
11.11 a.m. VERDO Concert Hall
Eeven past Eleven
Debut 4 Quartet Gerhard
Lluís Castán – violin
Judit Bardolet – violin
Miquel Jordà – viola
Jesús Miralles – cello
Robert Gerhard (1896–1970): Streichquartett Nr. 2
Dimitri Schostakowitsch (1906–1975): Streichquartett Nr. 7 fis-Moll op. 108
Peter I. Tschaikowsky (1840–1893): Streichquartett Nr. 1 D-Dur, op. 11
They have known each other since their school days and play chamber music together today. Our debut series presents the Gerhard Quartet from Spain. They take their name from the Schoenberg student Robert Gerhard, Catalonia’s most famous composer, whose string quartet they will also perform in Hitzacker. Their joint studies took the four musicians to Basel with Rainer Schmidt, to Berlin with Eberhard Feltz, and to Hanover with Oliver Wille. In their program, compiled especially for Hitzacker, they play not only the music of their namesake but also the chamber music work with which Tchaikovsky first presented himself to a broad public, as well as Shostakovich's Seventh String Quartet – a compact, compressed, intense work lasting twelve minutes, in which the movements transition into each other. Shostakovich dedicated the work to his deceased first wife.
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3:03 p.m. OKTOGON Gallery, Admission free
Three past Three
„Imagined Garden” – live act V with the Quartet Gerhard
Lluís Castán – violin
Judit Bardolet – violin
Miquel Jordà – viola
Jesús Miralles – cello
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7:07 p.m. VERDO Gardens, Admission frei
Seven past Seven
Flash 4: Conversation with the clarinetist Sharon Kam
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8:08 p.m. VERDO Concert Hall
Eight past Eight
Sitkovetsky Trio & Sharon Kam, clarinet
Alexander Sitkovetsky – violin
Isang Enders – cello
Wu Qian – piano
Sharon Kam – clarinet
Ludwig v. Beethoven (1770–1827): Klaviertrio D-Dur op. 70 Nr. 1 "Geistertrio"
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963): Quartett für Klarinette, Violine, Cello und Klavier
Igor Strawinsky (1882–1971): Drei Stücke für Klarinette solo
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): Klaviertrio a-Moll
A multicolored piano trio, or to quote the BBC: "Thrillingly played by the Sitkovetsky Trio, which more than fully exploits Ravel's expressive possibilities and ambitions in his attempt to expand the musical language of the form". Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, pianist Wu Qian and cellist Isang Enders will also be relying on their German-Israeli star guest, clarinetist Sharon Kam, to attain the special number “Four” in the festival program and to explore Hindemith's Quartet, a too rarely played masterpiece of classical modernism.