Haydn - Bartók - Mozart Quatuor Modigliani

• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): String Quartets, Op. 76:
• 1 String Quartets, Op. 76: I. Allegro (D Minor) 09:51
• 2 String Quartets, Op. 76: II. Andante o più tosto allegretto (D Major) 06:09
• 3 String Quartets, Op. 76: III. Minuet (D Minor) - Trio (D Major) 03:40
• 4 String Quartets, Op. 76: IV. Finale. Vivace assai (D Major) 04:07
• Bela Bartok (1881 - 1945): String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85, Prima parte:
• 5 String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85, Prima parte: I. Moderato 04:49
• 6 String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85, Seconda parte: II. Allegro 05:36
• 7 String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85, Recapitulazione della prima parte: III. Moderato - Coda. Allegro molto 05:05
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465:
• 8 String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465: I. Adagio — Allegro 11:27
• 9 String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465: II. Andante cantabile (F Major) 07:41
• 10 String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465: III. Menuetto and Trio. Allegro 04:46
• 11 String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465: IV. Allegro 08:00
• Total Runtime 01:11:11

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Freiheit ist ein Motor der Kreativität. Dies veranschaulichen die drei hier eingespielten Meisterwerke, die jeweils einen entscheidenden Augenblick im Leben ihrer Schöpfer beleuchten, wenn für diese ein neues Kapitel begann und sich ihnen neue Horizonte eröffneten. Die so süße Freiheit, die die damalige Jahrhundertwende und die intellektuelle Revolution mit sich brachten, sollte für die Musik Haydns und Mozarts zu einer starken Inspirationsquelle werden.

Das Fehlen der Freiheit ließ Bartóks Stimme nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zunächst verstummen, Selbstzweifel und Enttäuschung über die politische Entwicklung Ungarns mögen der Grund gewesen sein, warum er sich für einige Zeit fast ausschließlich seiner Sammlung ungarischer Volkslieder widmete. Wenn diese Werke auch durch ihre Poesie fesseln und ihr Erfindungsreichtum beflügelt, so legen sie doch vor allem von der Beharrlichkeit der menschlichen Natur Zeugnis ab, und eben diese berührt am tiefsten.

Quatuor Modigliani

Quatuor Modigliani
The Paris based Modigliani Quartet, formed by four close friends in 2003, is a regular guest of the world’s top venues and finest String Quartet series. In the current and upcoming seasons, the quartet will be touring in the USA, Japan, Korea, China and extensively most of the European countries. They will return among others to the Wigmore Hall for a series of concerts, the Carnegie Hall, the Paris’ Philharmonie, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Tokyo’s Oji Hall, as well having been the first String Quartet to perform in the big Hall of the newly opened Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie at the beginning of 2017.

In 2014, the Modigliani Quartet became Artistic Directors of the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, a festival created in 1976 by Antoine Riboud and made famous through its former legendary artistic director Mstislav Rostropovich, after a pause of thirteen years. The joint efforts of the Evian Resort and the Modigliani Quartet has brought a very fast success and the festival has now become again one of Europe’s major and most publicized Summer musical events.

The quartet has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released 7 CDs, all being internationally acclaimed by the critic and awarded prizes. The next release will be complete recording of the Schumann String Quartets in the Fall of 2017.

The Modigliani Quartet, ever since very dedicated to bigger chamber music, has built true friendships and regular touring with other musicians as Sabine Meyer, Renaud Capuçon, Beatrice Rana, Nicholas Angelich, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker or Daniel Müller-Schott.

After fifteen years of building up their own sound and profile, the Modigliani Quartet is now happy to take over the responsability of passing their experience to the next generation. They created in 2016 the Atelier within the Festival in Evian and will be holding a series of Masterclasses at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from November 2017 on.

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