Living in Paris Ebony quartet able to plunge into the depths of academic music from various eras with exquisite boldness and just as easily transform into a fascinating jazz ensemble. In the concert program – Henry Purcell FantasyĢerģs Ligeti First String Quartet (Métamorphoses nocturnes) and Robert Schumanis The first string quartet.
With their telepathic understanding, their charismatic playing and a fresh approach to the traditions of classical music, Quatuor Ébène is one of the most amazing string quartets of our time.
The quartet achieved its first success in 2004 ARD in the music competition, ensuring immediate recognition and numerous awards in other competitions as well. In 2005 the quartet was awarded Forberg-Schneider Foundation Belmont Award, in 2007, the quartet was among the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni balvas winner, but in 2019, as the first ensemble in the history of the award, it was awarded the Frankfurt Music Prize.
In addition to the traditional repertoire of the string quartet, the quartet also likes to animate non-academic musical genres. The improvisations of jazz standards and pop songs, born in 1999 to pass the time between one session and another of university music, have become Ebony quartet corporate brand. Currently, the quartet has already released three albums of non-academic genres. This aspect of the quartet’s work was appreciated by both listeners and music critics.
Ebony quartet recording albums by Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Joseph Haydn, Gabriel Fauré, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn have won numerous music recording awards, including Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine And Classic Midem awards.
The quartet celebrated its 20th anniversary with an international project Beethoven in the world (Beethoven in the world), recording all sixteen of Ludwig van Beethoven’s string quartets on six continents between May 2019 and January 2020. The project was then crowned by a series of concerts in the most important concert halls in Europe, including the Paris Philharmonic and the Old Opera in Frankfurt, while other programs have also been performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Verbier Festival and the Vienna Concert Hall.
on the evening of 23 October Dzintaru concert hall a magnificent and exciting concert program awaits the audience Ebony quartet in performance. Three outstanding composers: Henry Purcell, Žergis Ligeti and Robert Šumanis.
“England has never had a greater musical genius”, so one of his contemporaries once described the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. Among the many different genres that the great composer created in his short life, we must mention Fantasy for the family ensemble of historical stringed instruments – violins. Intellectually focused, emotionally intense, technically complex and spiritually sublime: these are the adjectives that come to mind when one thinks of Purcell’s masterful counterpoint, often compared to Johann Sebastian Bach The art of escape
On the other, the Hungarian Đerģa Ligeti The first string quartet composed between 1953 and 1954 in Budapest. Although most of Đerģs Ligeti’s music is unrelated to the popular expression of his older colleague Béla Bartók, in several compositions throughout the composer’s lifetime, a look at Béla Bartók’s refined sense of rhythm, development of motifs and the use of folkloric materials is still evident. This is also clearly visible in Ligeti In the first string quartet, where he also welcomed Bartók’s “night music” – a special sign of the composer’s handwriting, which its original author once described quite simply: “These are dissonances, sounds of nature and lonely melodies”.
Robert Schumanis was the first great German composer, whose life and work embodied not only partially but completely the ideals of the Romantic era. The year 1842 can rightly be called “the year of chamber music” by Schumann and The first string quartet it was one of the achievements of his “chamber music year”. During this period, the composer wrote three examples of a string quartet and, although for several years these works were considered too pianistic and unsuitable for stringed instruments, there is no shortage of musical clichés and lack of imagination characteristic of mature romanticism. The First String Quartet is actually the youngest of a family of three string quartets, and this score shows the composer’s discoveries as he studied Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn’s string quartets and scribbled endless counterpoint exercises.
Later this week Chamber Music Autumn Festival“, will perform the passionate pianist, winner of numerous international piano competitions, the pianist Juris Žvikovs, winner of numerous musical prizes. on 20 October in the Spīķeru concert hall in the concert program Made in California it will feature music by John Cage, John Adams, Henry Cowell, George Cram, Philip Glass and Lou Harrison.
Chamber Music Autumn Festival patron – composer Pēteris Vasks.
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