Casals and Cosmos Quartets
Directory
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Cosmos Quartet
Raquel García-Tomás: […] così mostraste a lei i vivi ardori miei […] (2015-18) 10'
Robert Gerhard: String Quartet No. 2 (1962) 14'
Cuarteto Casals
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 (1808) 40'
Performers
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Cosmos Quartet
Helena Satué, violin
Bernat Prat, violin
Lara Fernández, viola
Oriol Prat, cello
Cuarteto Casals
Vera Martínez Mehner, violin
Abel Tomàs Realp, violin
Jonathan Brown, viola
Arnau Tomàs Realp, cello
Program
Claudio Monteverdi’s madrigal Sfogava con le stelle is the starting point for Barcelona-born composer Raquel García-Tomás’s original work for string trio revised for quartet ensembles. The square brackets around the title represent a lack of a beginning and an end, the fragmented and uncertain nature of any creation. The Renaissance madrigal theme appears in the middle of the harmonic clash and joins forces with the most modern techniques.
In the second string quartet, which is split into seven parts but with a single time signature, Robert Gerhard goes deep into the techniques of Schönberg’s serialism and legacy and explores new timbre possibilities for string instruments. Finally, we will hear the second of Beethoven’s three “Razumovsky Quartets”, a work commissioned by the Russian ambassador to Vienna, that has become a leading work in the European chamber music repertoire.
- SHOW MADE
- 17 September 2020
- €32
- Hall 2 Oriol Martorell
- Barcelona String Quartet Biennale
The Cosmos and Casals quartets take us through over 200 years of European music history, from the time of Napoleon to the 21st century.
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