Influences Cosmos Quartet

• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): String quartet in E b Major, Op. 64 n. 6:
• 1 String quartet in E b Major, Op. 64 n. 6: I - Allegro 07:48
• 2 String quartet in E b Major, Op. 64 n. 6: II - Andante 04:00
• 3 String quartet in E b Major, Op. 64 n. 6: III - Menuet 03:38
• 4 String quartet in E b Major, Op. 64 n. 6: IV - Finale 03:41
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1997): String quartet n. 3, Op. 67:
• 5 String quartet n. 3, Op. 67: I - Vivace 10:58
• 6 String quartet n. 3, Op. 67: II - Andante 07:12
• 7 String quartet n. 3, Op. 67: III - Agitato (Allegretto non troppo) 08:37
• 8 III - Agitato (Allegretto non troppo): IV - Poco Allegretto con Variazioni 10:28
• Raquel García-Tomás (b. 1984):
• 9 cosi mostraste a lei i vivi ardore miei 09:30
• Total Runtime 01:05:52

Info for Influences

A very intense summer season for the Cosmos Quartet will finish with the recording of its first album, INFLUENCES.

The multi-awarded chamber ensemble composed by Helena Satué and Bernat Prat, violins; Lara Fernández, viola and Oriol Prat, cello, the Cosmos Quartet, will tie a summer season filled with outstanding engagements to consolidate their artistical proposal with the recording, at the end of September, of their first album as a regular quartet. Recognized at the beginning of this year 2018 with the prestigious 1st Award in the Heidelberg International Competition, organized by the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation and the Musikfestival Heidelberger Frühling, Cosmos Quartet is one of the most solid and with greater international projection of the moment.

Helena Satué, violin
Bernat Prat, violin
Lara Fernández, viola
Oriol Prat, cello

The Cosmos Quartet
was born in 2014 from the friendship and mutual interests of four young Catalans. Each of them has had an international trajectory as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, working with professors in the most prestigious schools of London, Paris, Geneva, Köln, Stuttgart, and Michigan.

In August 2014 the Cosmos Quartet participated in the International Summer Academy in Vienna, Austria, receiving coaching and masterclasses from Johannes Meissl, Hatto Beyerle, Miguel da Silva, Anita Mitterer, the Quartet Mosaïques, Patrick Jüdt, Evgenya Epsthein, the Prazac Quartet and the Talich Quartet As of September 2014 they are regularly travelling to Basel where they take lessons with Rainer Schimdt.

Despite the fact that it is a recently formed ensemble, the Cosmos Quartet has already participated in festivals around Spain such as Sant Cugat, Viladrau and Vilafranca del Penedès. They have also performed in several places in Austria, such as Gloggnitz, Reichenau, sharing stage with Shmuel Ashkenasi and Hagai Shaham. They performed at the ORF Kulturhaus in Vienna, where they played a live performance for the Radio. The Cosmos Quartet has won the Chamber Music Award at the ISA 2014 as well as the Artis Quartet Award for an outstanding performance as a string quartet at ISA 2014.

These four young musicians are united by their passion and interest in learning the art of the string quartet, reviving the traditional repertoire as well as exploring the newest tendencies.

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