Classicus Quartet: Das Wohltemperierte Streichquartett – Closing concert
Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in C major
György Kurtág: Perpetuum mobile
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in E minor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in B minor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in D major
György Kurtág: A Very Slow Waltz for Walter Levine
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in F major
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in A minor
György Kurtág: Jelek VI
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in C minor
György Kurtág: A Flower for Dénes Zsigmondy
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in E flat major
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in B flat major
György Kurtág: Hommage à J. S. B.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in F minor
György Kurtág: Virág az ember, for Miyako
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in G minor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in G major
György Kurtág: Hommage à Ránki György (Pizzicato Waltz)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in D minor
György Kurtág: Ligatura Y
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in E major
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia in A major
Eszter Kökény – violin
Péter Tornyai – viola
Tamás Zétényi – cello
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Octet, op. 20.
Dávid Pintér, Éva Osztrosits, Réka Baksai, Eszter Kökény – violin
Péter Tornyai, Ágnes Répászky – viola
Tamás Zétényi, Orsolya Mód – cello
Featuring:
Eszter Kökény – violin
Réka Baksai – violin
Éva Osztrosits – violin
Dávid Pintér – violin
Ágnes Répászky – viola
Péter Tornyai – viola
Orsolya Mód – cello
Tamás Zétényi – cello
Short Hungarian introduction by: Szabolcs Molnár, music historian
The Classicus Quartet's series, now in its fifth year, offers a unique cross-section of string quartet literature at the BMC Concert Hall. The closing concert will sum up the past 5 years, during which they have performed more than 60 works in 18 concerts, including a number of world premieres. In the first half of the evening, the trio formed from the quartet’s members will return to the alpha and omega of music history, performing Bach and Kurtág's densely woven pieces of transcendent compactness, and in the second half, they will look back on previous collaborations and bid farewell to the series with guest artists. The group will perform the charming Octet by the teenage Mendelssohn, a work that was highly unusual for its time with its score for eight string players, but which almost immediately became a popular piece in the chamber music repertoire.
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