Modigliani Quartet

Wonderfully different - Bold color accents embedded in portraits with clear, self-confident strokes, whose sober elegance penetrates to the essential: the painter Amedeo Modigliani was a man of character with bold visions. The four alumni of the Paris Conservatoire could hardly have chosen a more fitting namesake when they joined forces in 2003 to form an ensemble that is now one of the most sought-after string quartets in the world. Harald Eggebrecht celebrated the Quatuor Modigliani early on in the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" as a "wonderfully different quartet, vital, lively" and with a "sonorous, Dionysian earthiness". The ensemble has more than lived up to these high expectations in its more than twenty years of success.

With Adagio and Fugue in C minor K. 546 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the program begins with a work of unusual austerity and expressiveness. The dark, shadowy, dramatic sound world and the contrapuntal intensification of the fugue show Mozart from a serious, concentrated side. The String Quartet in G minor op. 10 by Claude Debussy then unfolds in completely different colors. Shimmering soundscapes, refined rhythms and the characteristic cyclical form combine the four movements to create a multifaceted, atmospherically rich sound - a key work of French modernism. The finale is Ludwig van Beethoven's late String Quartet op. 132, the middle movement of which the composer himself entitled "Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the deity" - a work of spiritual depth and existential concentration.

Program:
Mozart, Adagio and Fugue for String Quartet in C minor KV 546
Debussy, String Quartet in G minor op. 10
Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A minor op. 132

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