Belcea Quartet
Mozart / Szymanowski / Schubert
Without borders
»These musicians refuse to be limited by boundaries« wrote the London Times about the Belcea Quartet in 2019. Corina Belcea, the Romanian violinist after whom the quartet is named, and the Polish violist Krzysztof Chorzelski brought two different artistic backgrounds to the mix when they founded the ensemble in 1994, and this was then complemented by the French musicians Axel Schacher and Antoine Lederlin. The range of their repertoire also seems not to be subject to boundaries.
The four musicians have already recorded all string quartets by Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms and Britten, and they regularly present new works by contemporary composers. In the Laeiszhalle, the ensemble will be performing string quartets from three different eras. Their programme features the »Third Prussian Quartet«, the last string quartet composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, »Death and the Maiden«, is also a late work in a way, even though Schubert composed it at the age of 27. What is surely his most famous string quartet revolves around death with harrowing intensity. The themes of death and the grave occupied the composer in an almost manic way his entire life until his death at the age of 31. The quartet also performs one of the few chamber-music works by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski from the year 1917.
Performers
Belcea Quartet
Corina Belcea violin
Axel Schacher violin
Krzysztof Chorzelski viola
Antoine Lederlin violoncello
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Streichquartett F-Dur KV 590
Karol Szymanowski
Streichquartett Nr. 1 C-Dur op. 37
– Interval –
Franz Schubert
String Quartet in D minor, D 810 »Death and the Maiden«
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