crescendo26: GegenTöne - Counter-Tones
Fête de Fauré Quartett – Chamber music against boredom – crescendo
The Fauré Quartet plays chamber music to combat boredom, and there is much to celebrate...
Franz Schubert: Adagio and Rondo D 487
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 23
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (arrangement for piano quartet by D. Mommertz/G. Gruzman)
Fauré Quartet: Erika Geldsetzer, violin / Sascha Frömbling, viola / Konstantin Heidrich, cello / Dirk Mommertz, piano
The Fauré Quartet is one of the leading piano quintets of our time, has won numerous awards (including ECHO and the German Record Critics' Award), has released albums of classical and romantic repertoire on Deutsche Grammophon and Berlin Classics, and has a unique selling point that is almost unbelievable nowadays: it has been playing in the same line-up since its foundation in 1996. The ensemble's 30th anniversary, achieved against all odds, will be celebrated this evening with Schubert, a rather unknown but incredibly light and fresh piano quartet by Dvořák, and an arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition for piano quartet. The Russian composer wrote this piece to process the death of his close friend and painter Viktor Hartmann, and in it the music onomatopoeically expresses the individual scenes from Hartmann's paintings.
In addition to the anniversary, there is a second reason to celebrate: Dirk Mommertz, pianist of the quartet, is celebrating his appointment as a new professor of chamber music at the Berlin University of the Arts with this concert. We say: welcome and here's to the next 30 years!
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