3. Kammerkonzert - Quatuor Ébène

In the organizer's words:

Quatuor Ébène:
Pierre Colombet violin
Gabriel Le Magadure violin
Marie Chilemme viola
Yuya Okamoto Violoncello

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in G major op. 76 No. 1 Hob III: 75
Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major op. 35
Johannes Brahms
String Quartet in A minor op. 51 No. 2

The string quartet is considered the premier class of chamber music - and we can experience why this is the case at performances by Quatuor Ébène: In around two decades, an ensemble has grown up here that not only plays in the premier league of international quartets, but also regularly leaves audiences breathless with its unconditional courage to take risks and the intensity of its interpretations. Even supposedly well-known repertoire sounds refreshingly new and excitingly different with Quatuor Ébène. Take Joseph Haydn, for example, who is considered the inventor of the genre. The program includes the String Quartet in G major op. 76 No. 1, one of the late quartets by the Viennese classicist, in which he bundled all of his achievements in this field as a kind of legacy. This set the bar high for the following generations of composers, a fact that Johannes Brahms also felt: He spent around 20 years working on the genre before presenting his first quartets to the public with Opus 51. The only string quartet by the French composer Maurice Ravel, which is full of wonderful sound effects, can be heard alongside the two German-speaking composers.